sra61
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I shot this bull on Nov. 9, 2004. I had hunted opening week with my brother and two sons, mainly looking for a buck for them, and antelopefor them also. I was sorely tempted constantly looking at elk. I saw many bulls that first week, but none I felt would go over 350 B&C. We got the boys' deer and one antelope, and headed home. I had another week to hunt, which was the third week of general season. I took on of the young guys from my office with me, he had never hunted on horseback, and never hunted the breaks. We started in an area that was remote and untouched, but saw no really big bulls, and then moved over to an area I had heard there was a big concentration of elk. The first morning in there, we immediately saw large numbers of elk. We saw one big bunch of at least 100 head that had a couple of big bulls in their midst, but they were a good 2 miles away, and the wind wasn't too good. We moved slowly down the ridge glassing as we went. There were elk all over the ridges around us. After an hour or so we spotted the big herd coming around the end of a ridge only half a mile east of us. If they would just continue on their present course, I would have a decent shot. It was the only way I could get a shot because the wind was swirling so bad. As luck would have it, they came right up the coulee towards us. The biggest bull in the bunch was a nice 6x6, and was obviously the "man" of the group. There must have been 20 other bulls. But this one big 6 was really pretty. I knew he wouldn't score too high, but he was so pretty I decided to take him. The group came on towards us, and I shot him at 404 yds.
I bought a new Rem. 700 BDL Stainless w/fiberglass stock in .300 Rem Ultra Mag. during the summer just for this occasion, and it performed beautifully.
I have also attached the pics of my sons' bucks and the young guy "Jeff" with the bucks they took.
