I'm guys from your host and this is Eastman's hunting TV today we're gonna
go to southern Colorado and hunt big bugling bulls we're gonna go along with
our 2011 hunt winner Kurt Tobias how's it goin man I'm excited it can be I am
gonna be uh ready to hunt some elk oh yeah I'm ready
Oh Curtis smiling from ear to ear and after spending a little time talking
with him I've learned that he's been a subscriber to Eastman's hunting journal
for over 20 years our hunt winners have set the bar very high over the past
couple of years they've taken some really nice trophy bulls we're hoping to
continue this trend with Kurt
we barely made it out of camp the first evening of the hunt but running into
this really nice bull since we're literally only minutes into our hunt we
decided to pass up on this bull and continue looking for a bigger one
I can slob he's a slob
you know they're rutting real hard so we get up there and I'm not kidding you the
first drainage we look into there's a bull bugling or tree you know it is you
hear them bugling or look at trying to find them you know they're there
somewhere and they're your glass and glass and finally this thing steps out
and it is a giant an absolute giant but it's 425 yards away
want the shooting sticks there Kurt's getting pretty pressured up at this
point cuz he's been to your lecture so he's knows what a big bull is and
there's no there's no shop at a 330 this guy now there it is
this is his bull in his mind and he is preparing to shoot it thank you I'm
guessing he's in the 360 plus range with a huge bull in his crosshairs Kurt's
becoming ever so anxious to take the 400 yard shot we draw the hunt winner we
don't know who we're gonna get and so we kind of have a standing deal we get them
nice and close you know good nice clothes clean shots for the film and
whatnot and Kurt's ready to shoot this bull at 425 Paul
realizes what's going on and he reaches over and unloads Kurt's gun takes drops
drops the floor out of it takes the bullets out shuts the thing and so
Kurt's sitting there with an empty gun basically on his backpack trying to sell
to Paul neither he can knock this thing down and he keeps that and Paul
re ranged it how far is he's 426 I can kill him at 426 guys this we got this
thing I'm gonna we can shoot him at 426 it up to that point the largest elk I've
ever seen in Colorado and I've been hunting there what a long long time
he comes sooner thinking oh please God Sun go down quick Sun go down quick you
know so I can use the oh well the cameras too dark to film we got to go
back to camp there was no doubt that this was the bull that Kurt wanted to
kill the wind beginning to swirl we decided to leave in hopes of turning
this bull up again in the coming days we hunted for five days for that bull and
we went round and round and round
see how that bull is still bedded straight across there that's a good sign the big bull is with him
he's always been couple hundred yards away from that satellite the whole
time so I'm hoping that holds true he's just in the bottom here
it's not him
I'm pretty sure that he's up on top of the plateau around the corner
we took Paul's advice and headed off onto the plateau it wasn't long before
we struck up a bugling bull so we quickly moved in and set up then finally
on the fifth day of the hunt we're all hiding on a bench we saw some cows like
kind of move off the bench down to this side we heard a bugle over here so Paul
says let's go over and bugle so we get set up and Paul squeaks not even twice
on the cow call and here comes a bull right up the hill and he was down I
think he's down he's scraping his horns and you know they are scraping their
horns Bulls get sidetracked cows kind of move off and then all sudden we're at
the right place the right time Paul squeaks like a young bull in between him
and his cows and he comes up this hill growling like a d8 cat and he comes up
and then captain Kurt is he is ready to shoot one at four-twenty and he's ready
to shoot one at 14 whatever it takes and I'm looking at Paul Paul's looking at me
and I said I think that's him because he had won two of his eye guards went close
to each other and I knew that from looking him before two eye guards they
didn't go out that came closer together at the end I said I think that's him and
Paul said I think it's him too
and what the bull runs out the gun goes off and the bull runs off like nothing
happened it kind of surprised Paul and I and we're looking each other like did he
hit him right bull did he miss it a 42 yards and we looked down and captain
Kurt's halfway down the hill he's already shot and he's marching to his
bull so tell me what you think he scored what I noticed was when he was
standing there his eye guards coming together at the end Kurt won this hunt
by subscribing to Eastman's bow hunting journal and I don't know if you signed
up anybody's or not by the way that works you get one chance in the Hat for
your subscription and another chance for each buddy you sign up for the magazine
and Kurt's been with us for a long time over 20 years with the magazine so he's
from Bakersfield California and he won this hunt so remember to make sure you
get your subscriptions renewed and sign up your buddies for Eastman's hunting or
bow hunting journal and you could be here sitting right next to me next year on a
trophy elk on here in Colorado so remember until next time fair chase is
the only way to hunt and take trophy big game I'm guy Eastman we'll see you next
week right here on Eastman's hunting TV