hunting trophy bull elk in the prime of the rut with a rifle there's truly nothing like
it and I had the pleasure this year of taking Casey Barney pro member sweepstakes winner on
the hunt of a lifetime on one of the most prestigious ranches you can ever imagine in
southern Colorado with over 50,000 acres of prime land managed for trophy quality
in limited opportunity and having Paul Brown as our guide who's been with this outfitter a long
period of time makes it even more special so tag along this week's going to be great as we watch
Casey Barney get one of the best opportunity of his life to kill his biggest bull ever
hearing bugling all day we saw several quality bulls it's not every hunt that you truly get
to shop around but that's exactly what we did this ranch has some amazing animals and Paul
helped us to be choosy so we could harvest a mature bull we had only been hunting for
an afternoon and we'd already seen more shooters than most get to see in years of
hunting following two separate herds we had to make a decision on who to follow
the oak brush in this area can get mighty thick and sometimes
you can't tell where the animals are until you're right on top of them
we encountered a great bull at super close range but we decided there might be a better trophy
nearby with all the bugling going on around the valley and this guy was alone it's easy to spook
the elk when you're that close seeing that we are losing light we climb the ridge for a better view
as the first day was coming to a close we saw a great bull about a mile away on an opposite ridge
and just off the ranch light was fading fast but we wanted to wait and see if he would cross the
fence and come a little closer
instead the bull held up on the border fence and
was taunting us his cows were split on the boundary fence and headed our direction
we figured he would follow them and be at the water on our ranch in the morning
packing up for the night we were determined to locate him at first light
heading back out in the morning we set up on a ridge which would put
us in position to intercept him coming from the water before he showed the morning wind
swirled and we busted the herd that had our possible shooter bull in it
the bull pushed his harem away from us and Casey wasn't able to take a shot
looking down the ridge however we saw another herd that contained another shooter bull moving
about 300 yards down the ridge would put us in position for a cross canyon shot
atta boy
is a grateful look at those seconds yeah that's what we seen yeah
dude that is so freaking awesome
well I got lucky and drew the Hill Ranch out of the sweepstakes being
oh great hunt excited he never killed anything like this well great hunt here at the hill ranch
with Casey he's from Utah and as is of all of us from Utah we apply for limited entry draw
tags in hopes of getting a bull of this caliber it's usually a once in a lifetime opportunity
to do that he's able to do some over-the-counter hunts and when he got here said his biggest bull
was probably 280 290 said we would definitely upgrade this we have we haven't been hunting
24 hours at this point in time but obviously got it done we saw this bull come in and fight with
another bull we were playing cat and mouse with him most of the morning but uh this is a bull
you don't pass we're on a serious drought year I think this bull is probably mid-330s he might make
340 tons and tons of mass I mean the two on this one is 21 22 inches just a big old mature bull so
nothing more than we could ask for on this hunt and uh congrats man thank you that's as good as
it gets yes yes sir thank you hey you won this in the Pro membership sweepstakes we do a giveaway
every 10 days and it's hunts like this here in the hill Ranch we do desert bighorn sheep hunt Stone
sheep hunt you name it we do something pretty special every 10 days guns gear you name it we
give away three hundred thousand dollars if you're not a member make sure you sign up Pro membership
sweepstakes.com you'd be somebody like Casey here you'll be out here in Southern Colorado next year
although he said he's really going to be begging to win this thing one more time so we come back
and upgrade hope we don't have a drought year hey thanks for joining us on this episode of
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