this week we're going elk hunting with the eastman's 2020 tag hub hunt winner
go ahead if you want
well the only missouri license plate i know would be jarrod
guess i'm in the right place yes sir nice to meet you Ike Eastman
so you're from where in missouri um i'm originally from joplin now live in the springfied area
springfield nice very cool and uh you're our 2020 tag hub winner
ironically i joined the tag hub because we're going to do an over the unit and you have
guys have more statistics on that yup and plans changed obviously
well you still use it right still use information for next year or whatever yup
our sponsors threw together a package of stuff for you so a ton of sitka gear so we've got
coats and pants and light jackets and puffy coats and all kinds of stuff i think there's
even gloves in here there's gloves in here right so we'll be we'll put that to use this week um
have you ever heard of swagger uh yes so swagger guys that josh over swagger threw in
three so we have the shooting sticks the bipod and then their new um steel banger that mounts right
to the front of your gun on a just on a picatinny reel awesome yeti threw in a cool cooler this is
their newest this is my this is my favorite cooler now it's uh it's got a new lock system
and this sticks off and it sticks to the top so you can use it as a [ __ ] oh yeah so a stool
turkey or whatever that's great boys at uh eberlestock threw together a
pack this is my favorite backpack this is the main frame it's got a gun scabbard in it it's got this
is what they call a spike camp duffel so you can completely unzip and it's just a big pocket
and it zips directly to the pack and then you can compression strap over the top
so that's cool and then the big one sig optics through a brand new pair of binos fantastic yeah
so really nice yeah i can't believe all the stuff you guys gave me i mean i really appreciate it
well hopefully you probably have some duplicate stuff but that's okay oh yeah hopefully you can
fit all this in your car on the way home with a bull elk yeah i think i'll be able to throw
it somewhere if you don't want to i mean you just let me know i'll take home for it okay
well i mean i mean i really appreciate it
i can't really put into words but it's incredibly lucky to have this opportunity and yeah i'm just
glad you came it's uh it's gonna be fun we'll be we've been down here for a few days already and
the elk have been screaming in fact the other night one of the guys parked next to us he's
trying to sleep and there's an elk right standing up there by the propane tank just screaming his
head off like this 330 bull just going nuts wow so i've never elk hunted before so it's all new to me
i told my co-workers and friends that i'll just be spoiled for life after this and
yeah i haven't paid my dues yet it's like i don't deserve this that's right you know what
i would do if i were you there's there's probably 300 years of elk hunting knowledge stuffed
in this camp this week i would be asking a ton of questions and learning as much as you can
a little bit to the right but that's it
left
a little bit to the left and high three inches
well that was fun
i think if we could just find out
if he wanted that g1 busted off he probably would of
yeah that's good bull pretty bull
there's cows in there
oh wait there
he's coming through the bottom almost into the end of the bottom bottom
we're moving towards some cows
go ahead and load there might be another one
get ready
i'm good
yeah
go ahead if you want
got it on safety
let's see
i was already hitting my eye but you hit him right at the top of the shoulder took his lungs out
oh i'm so proud of you where he died
sweet
congratulations yeah appreciate it nice work nice work i thought yeah
oh it's 29
you're like not funny you do that every time i do
okay pull that thing out of there lift it up
well this is our first morning hunt um we've been hunting since last evening and
it's been kind of quiet um you know compared to normal so we were out here
glassing a bull this morning and and we uh trey was you know using the cow call and
we didn't really hear anything and we were getting ready to pack up and hike back back down and we
heard a bull bugling from where we actually came from so we we headed back and uh this big bull was
pushing these cows across the trail and i mean it happened really fast but the
shot worked out real well double lung shot and he didn't go more than 50 yards i mean i've never
hunted out west before but with whitetails you know it's it's uh you know it can happen
you know in a heartbeat things change and that's what happened this morning did you
have your ears covered no i didn't think you were going to shoot i don't know if i jumped from the
noise or the freaking impact of it because i was directly at 45 with you and i felt it hit my chest
wham
well jared congratulations on your first bull ever here in colorado you're the 2020 tag hub winner
um it was awesome tell me about what happened well it was kind of slow the first night and we
were out here up on the ridge top uh trey was you know hitting the cow calls trying to get some some
elk to beagle back and we didn't hear anything so we were getting ready to head back down and
we heard this elk bugle from the direction we'd initially come he pushed these cows across an
old logging road and and it just happened you know really fast from that point on and
60 yards with a 300 a 200 grain bullet it uh did a number on him he didn't literally didn't go 20
and died right there it was yeah couldn't ask for a better setup well congratulations
thank you i really appreciate it thanks for watching eastmans
and remember fair chase is the only way to hunt and take trophy big game