wow this is what we came so deep into
backcountry for is to find a big old heavy horn brute like this
big back scratchers you just never know when it's gonna happen
can you believe that
first day of the elk hunt going about
seven miles in got two riding horses a pack horse and a
pack mule a couple panniers back there we're about
two and a half miles in and we have five or so to go
and uh hopefully we can find a big bull going into the burn elk always love burn
no grizzly bears yet that's archie and my cameraman tim up
there on these trails he strides out and covers the country which
is exactly what we like find camp and should have some good
hunting tomorrow just watching for grizzly bears seen
some poop so far a couple piles
go there let's go bear
i just put the binos up real quick and there's like
50 cows up in here and i don't know how many bulls
we're gonna camp right on this flat right here
oh it's gonna be an exciting evening camp's right here elk on the hill above
us a half mile up maybe it's 7:21 we have
probably 50 minutes we got the horses taken care of
raised a little bit and there we go see what kind of bulls are up there
there's a bunch of elk
let's go right there
ball that's with those cows up there is smaller than this bull right here
well we got up to our spot tonight and a nice 330 340 bull is with a bunch of
rag horns down here so we really couldn't get up
and look at these elk on the hillside tonight i see a bunch of cows and i see
a couple bulls up there but nothing big they're just screaming
their heads off though big calories up there hopefully they
disperse the next couple days and we can find a big bull but we're
probably only seeing a third of what's in here maybe
probably a third but wow we might be camped too close even
there's like 10 raghorns right here like 300
400 yards from camp and the big 330 bull with him
so tomorrow's day one we'll see what we can do
it sure looks good wow
well the boys love their oats in the morning that's for sure
they're all fired up give them some feed this morning
head on out kill a big bull hungry hungry
we're gonna saddle a couple of boys up and
kind of get a late start when you're hunting with horses
it's kind of fun to hunt with horses in the
regard that it just saves your legs and good stock in the backcountry make
all the difference thank you cold bit
on the teeth can't feel great now when i tie off a cinch here
for a pack mule do a little different than a horse
just like that and then pull it through like this it just makes
it easier to tighten up when you're on the trail
and you have a load on uh this style rather than
the normal style how you would tie off a pack or a riding horse
so that's nice right there load up and take off
they're bugling in here last night kind of over the hill from camp i felt like
there's a bull right there let's
we'll get a solid layer of land and where
what bulls we're and then we'll make a stalk
he like really he's got backscratcher main beams
wow yeah he's a growler
that is a stud
wow that's a great bull
yeah we can go up that trail
he's a 350.
he's a seven on the right
seven point on the right and his left is a big six but look how far back his left
beam goes that's a big bull too dude
we are surrounded by bulls giant bulls everywhere
two bulls that are over 350 bulls behind us bugling we're gonna go back
and check on this bull we're just looking over everything right now taking
inventory it's constant bugling this is what we
live for it's incredible up here september 9th
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it's gonna come out this way
not quite what I'm looking for
that's that same 6x7 with that big back scratcher beam on his left
it's amazing these horses
well it's amazing during the elk rut how just curious they are this bull's 35
yards looking at the horses i'm cow calling at
him when it's on it's on you just gotta love
it you gotta soak it in and enjoy it because you only get this once a year
for like a week not a shooter so we're gonna let him go
heart shot heart shot
going down
big old freaky royals big back scratchers that is the bull we
saw across the hillside this morning he's not the biggest one in here but i
think he's the second biggest one in here
he was totally looking at the horses and we were able to slip up
and he just stood there and i poked out and ranged him
and he was just standing there he was staring at the horses because i
calculated him that is a big old giant
this bull made a little just like a little spike bugle very small bugle
and then i calculated him and he chuckled at me a little bit and kind of
put some throat into it and he's coming in the
timber he was 40 yards i was gonna shoot i was
waiting for him to turn but he knew he knew something was up but
he never smelled us that's what i didn't know
but i don't know what he bolted on i don't
other than he smelled us but he saw the horses and so his brain said
don't spook that's the only thing i can think of
tie the horses together let's go take a look at him
that's my biggest bull to date he's a big old freak nasty he looked frickin
giant in the timber yes look at that bull
oh here he is guys back country big old slob big old frame
not particularly wide but probably somewhere around 350.
that's what i came for we have a lot of work to do to get them out of here
there's grizzly bears around was the bull from this morning
giant come crescent over ridgeline super long beams big old mature bull
check this out his eyes poked out blind
it's gotta be 10 inches it's got to be 10 inches
weather's coming in bad lightning gotta get him out of here