Well we're on September 8 we just made it to
Idaho bought our tags raced up to the mountain now we're busting up here to a wallow
that I know about we're just given the last 20 minutes of light so we just have
a little bit of time to make a but this has been a very active wallow in the past
so we're hoping we can put something together
with the early elk rut in full swing now the big bulls seem to be already herded
up with cows making it extremely difficult to get within bow range
it looks like this bull is heading right into Jordan but in reality a small spike
has snuck underneath the bank right in front of Jordan
well bundled up like a snowman it's 38 degrees and dropping and snowing on the tops
you just had some snow here actually minutes ago but we found a good bull in
a nice pocket and it's gonna be exciting there's a whole bunch of big boulders in
there it's a burnt area and we're we're excited to slip in on him
got a love public land before we even go off the trailhead these guys started
ripping and roaring with their pistols you pretty sure he just decided it was better to go up the hill a bit further
if it isn't hunters it's campers shooting
moved into a new area going to go sit on a wallow that traditionally has been very active
um I haven't seen it this year so we don't know walking into yet this draw
has a lot of elk in it a lot of really good encounters here
Yeah right down there
so we got on these elk this morning we camped up on top of the ridge that
they're walking towards so we buggered across this big canyon up on top before
it got light enough for them to spot us and got above them and it worked perfect
they nearly fed right to us we had to make one slight adjustment cuz
there's a hunter that came up from the other side and so the whole herd turned
became this direction we just needed that bull to cooperate for two more
steps the age-old struggle that we have in the woods but that's what we do it
for right there
after several days of hunting many close calls and fighting the public land
battle Jordan has finally found himself in the driver's seat on a big public
land bull this could be the biggest bull of Jordan's bowhunting career
the sun's setting behind our shoulders a and we just smacked the biggest bull of my life
well here we are September 15th got in here this afternoon just in time to put
in a hunt yeah found this bull right away we ended up having across the
ravine and get over underneath of him this guy tops the charts for me public
land doesn't matter if it was a small bull we'd still be having just as much
fun up here but having a bull like this it's just extra extra neat to see the
just the size of the old boy his body is a big guy I'm 90% sure that this is the
bull that Dan and I were on last year and we're hunkered in about 120 yards
away waiting for him to get up and feet out to the faces and a couple guys blew
them we're gonna get him cut up and get him out of here we there's some other
hunters on there in the morning we're gonna try to get out of their way
majorly humbled what a neat opportunity I couldn't be happier to share it with
you guys and thanks for joining us on this week's episode remember fair chase
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