well you ready to go elk hunting?
are you going to shoot Mike? totally up to you Mike whatever you want to do
you knew it would come to this
pushing 350 his tops are big his royals were big as your hand his thirds are long
yeah eye guards everything's good not real
wide that's the way these bulls are
beams are good
I don't think they're huge but
he's got an extra point off of one royal so he's
even on one side and six on the other
but he's an old bull he's big old body on him
I thought for sure he had cows and none in here huh
maybe he's travelling for them I don't know
maybe his cows are up there's another bull
around the corner I think
yeah maybe so well so one potential that's a good bull he's
pushing 350 heavy heavy you don't see old heavy massive bulls like that around
here very much
see him Tyler it's a good bull isn't Paul?
can you see him Mike?
what do you think Paul?
he's a 7 by 8
you on him Tyler?
the warm temps have slowed the rutting
activity a little bit we're on some good bulls so far so let's catch back up with
Mike and see what we can turn up
there's a bull on the base of the hill
yeah he's a nice wide he's pretty perfect I think that bull down here got
his butt kicked that bull took his cows
as we backed out for the evening and the sun
went down the cooler temperatures caused the rutting activity to pick up
drastically more more bugling bulls began to show themselves it came clear
we're gonna be back in this exact same spot at daylight the next morning
day one in the books couple close calls but we got in here at three o'clock this
afternoon there was bull bugling and from his bed so we just set up on him
and got a couple glimpses of him I thought he's a pretty good bull he went
up to top got in a fight with another bull lost his cows came back down her
Paul cow called he got nervous he knew something was
wrong and buggered down the drainage but the bull he lost his cows too
he's a big six point he's up on top so we're gonna come back in the morning and
hopefully get on one of the two bulls so there's two good bulls over after in
here so that part of that job's done now we just gotta get in close enough to get
a winner Mike shot to be continued first thing in the morning on day one we found
a couple good bulls now it's just a matter of closing the distance and
placing the shot on one
glassing this open country trying to catch some elk moving around and I heard a rock roll over
there and then about 10 minutes later Paul saw a bull come out and walk right
underneath us about 80 yards he's a really cool bull probably like maybe a
300 frame 310 20x maybe 24 inch drop time but he's a
young bull he really has a lot of potential bull like that could
definitely cracked a tape at 400 some time in his life with that extra point I mean
if that thing gets to 30 inches long he just has to get done 363 370 on the
frame and he'll hit 400
the morning's excitement wore off in that afternoon found us moving into some new areas
over 330 his fronts are short his thirds are good his width is good
because back-end is top end it's like a three-party but it's first to her like a
310
there he is right below the calf
he's gotta come out on this lower no he's gonna go out and get those cows
laying down yeah he's going up the cat track there yeah
he's a pretty 330 that's probably the best bull we've seen the good thing is they're out
he's got a good bugle
are you gonna shoot Mike? okay let's go try to find it then he keeps thinking about
that one then let's go take a look let's go find
that other one okay I just cameraman just needs to know if you're gonna shoot
it so you don't surprise us it's totally up to you Mike whatever you want to do
you knew it'd come to this all right let's go
oh we had this bull at 230 yards we got up close he's just not quite what we
thought and the hunt winner saw a bull over a couple drainages over he wants to go try
to get so we're gonna let this one walk at 230 yards and we're out of here it's
for almost five o'clock so we got two more hours to find another big bull and
see if we can get a shot on it
we have time to check just one more drainage before dark hopefully we can
turn up aces when you see a lone satellite bull like this one you know
there has to be a big herd bull somewhere in the area
just when we thought the evening hunt was coming to a close the unexpected happens
whenever you're ready
I think he's dead heard a whole bunch of crashing going that's the bull you came
after Mike it's the bull from the top from the cop yeah that we saw the other
night they laid down he's not going to pass this one up front
he's dead outstanding yep perfect shot oh he is heavy congratulations Mike
what a bull
we're here with our 2016 hunt winner Mike Roduner from Buffalo Wyoming he
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had a great time bring it to you from the bugling bull infested southern
colorado country it was a good time and a lot of action until next time remember
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