| Here is one of my favorite hunting stories. It was the | | | | bulls. I thought to myself, "Do I move & take the |
| Colorado elk hunting season of 2001. I was hunting the | | | | chance of spooking them or do I sit tight and wait? |
| high country searching for the elusive trophy bull. | | | | If I wait they may end up in that thick timber below |
| There was about two feet of snow & I was roughly | | | | them." I decided I needed to reposition. Well just my |
| ten miles from my jeep, just starting to think about | | | | luck they spotted me & headed straight down into the |
| lunch when I heard a branch snap behind me in this | | | | timber. They weren't too spooked so I thought I might |
| over grown meadow. | | | | be able to side hill around & see if I could spot them |
| I knelt down on one knee when out of the timber | | | | again. |
| came two young bulls. I pulled my 7mm Remington to | | | | Well two hours later I was around the hill looking down |
| my shoulder took aim on the front bull then the next, | | | | in a hole when I spotted him. I pulled the range finder |
| when something caught my eye. | | | | out he was 380 yards. I knew the 7mm could handle it. |
| It was the biggest bull I've ever seen he had the | | | | I took a deep breath aimed high on his shoulder & |
| largest set of racks on him I could count 8 points & he | | | | squeezed the trigger. Down he went. He was the |
| was just 168 yards below me feeding. Just as I was | | | | biggest bull I've ever shot 8 X 9. Colorado elk hunting is |
| about to shoot he stepped behind one of the younger | | | | quite the adrenaline rush. |