welcome to eastmans hunting tv join us today on a great public land do-it-yourself
elk hunt in the high country wyoming
well once again we were close the bull was a nice bull oh probably 330 bull or so it was
just coming in nice i just needed like i just needed maybe two more steps
it was kind of quartered to me it was only 20 25 yards um but we kind of we've been following
these elk all morning it's probably 10:30 right now we've been on them since daylight
we were right in the middle of them up here unfortunately the smaller bull came through
up here it was only about maybe eight yards from us and that other six point in his cows
were traveling this trail so when the elk finally gave us a chance we slipped down
here and started calling some more this bull that was across the canyon we called him up over
that's one we almost had and man two more steps and i would have had a perfect shot right here
that was pretty close um pretty nice bull uh i think uh i think our wind switched on us and uh
cows were just over the ridge over here and i think they got the wind because they came over and
well as you saw they spooked the bull and uh and but that's just the way it goes up here
up here in the mountains you get a lot of a lot of swirls sometimes and the wind beat us this
time but probably um probably let this guy rest the evening maybe tomorrow going somewhere else
well yeah last day archery season here in wyoming september 30th and
been on this kind of got on this bull early this morning and found out there was a couple other
hunters in this canyon hunting the same bull so that's public land for you so we kind of backed
out um we got another canyon here we got some bulls we left last night screaming so
we're gonna go after go after them and see if we can't get one down last day here in wyoming
well we've uh had a pretty good morning we got into quite a few elk um
one of them we got pretty close to got some pretty good footage of it pretty good bull
came into this canyon back behind me and we got in here and there was uh
at least four maybe five or six bulls bugling in here so we worked in on him started setting up on
him calling him got him going pretty good in fact one of them still bugling his head off back here
but uh our thermals are starting to switch the wind's starting to go up
so uh instead of pressing the issue we decided just to back out and get out of here for the
afternoon and wait for this evening for these uh the winds to turn start coming back down the
hill so that's hard to walk away from those bulls bugling like that but sometimes you got to do it
well larger season here in wyoming has come and gone um we've been after it pretty hard for
well most of the month really the last five days that we've been hitting real hard
oh we've had some really close encounters um there's always one thing or another the wind or
setup was wrong we got pinned down
a lot of things you know archery hunting but here in wyoming we get a chance to go out with a rifle
and and uh try again and get back out here with the rifle and see if we can't get one of the big
bulls that we got so close to uh it's big country and that's just the way bowhunting goes sometimes
now we got a up here rifling on public land in wyoming and spotted a pretty good bull bedded down
up here in the snow it's uh getting kind of late in the day but nice bulls got real good fronts
uh exceptional third points a little weak in the back possibly an older bull but he's in a pretty
good spot for stalking so we're gonna we're gonna try to get up this ridge over here and throw up
over the top and see if we can't get it get a closer look at him possibly even a shot at him
tonight before the sun goes down so we've got a long steep hike ahead of us so we better get going
well we're getting close to that bull that we'd spotted down below
um kind of worked up this steep ridge as you can see i'm a little tired
um it's getting kind of late in the day and our thermals are starting to swirl a little bit
i use a little baking soda in a bottle just kind of check check the wind as you can see
it's starting to go down pretty steady right now so we're going to give another
5-10 minutes make sure it's constant before we slip in the last 3-400 yards on this bull
hopefully he's still bedded up in that snow
that was awesome oh yeah he's down he's down for good Guy and I spotted this bull
oh a long ways away we just took our time and luckily guy spotted him uh it took us a little
while we had to had to take our time and kind of slip down here and he was just feeding didn't
know we were here and he turned and offered us a good shot oh i don't know 150 yards maybe
made a good shot on him and he's down for good i better go take a look at him
yeah he's down he's not even moving
well congratulations sean that was a tremendous shot on this bull thanks we uh i spotted him
from the road i couldn't believe my eyes when i looked up and and this is normally a piece of this
country we don't normally hunt much and this bull is laying in the snow bank all by himself it's uh
17th of october and it's after the rut and this this old bull's been living in this
pocket his tracks are all over up and down this hillside he's probably been in here for a week
you know since the rut was over and trying to put some weight back on and get ready for the winter
and we were able to stalk up on him and and make a tremendous shot about it 150 yards yeah about 150
yards and you spent a lot of time in here this fall bow hunting and we've really got to know
this area and we've learned some some techniques to hunt in this public land uh country like this
that's really paid off and you can find pockets like this there's not a horse track in here
but it's only three four miles from from the trailhead down there yeah and there's people
riding up both these drainages and completely overlooking a pocket like this and i know this
bull's been living in here for a week well when you guys were in here during archery season and
you filmed a 360 bull maybe even 370 two days before rifle season the crazy hunters showed up
with wall tents and fifth wheel trailers and started sighting their guns in at their camp
riding atvs music blasting bonfires and that bull left boy as soon as they moved in i couldn't find
that bull again for two days and you know they headed up for little pockets like this to hide out
there's some huge bulls still to be had in here i mean they didn't get to 360 370 by getting shot
opening morning well congratulations on a nice trophy wyoming bull on public land do it yourself
remember fair chase is the only way to hunt and take trophy big game