Good Bull 2.0

[Stubaby]

Hey y'all.

Im going to burn my 13 resident elk points in 2019. I'm going to chrono it on this thread if you don't mind. I like it when others do it.....so here goes.

I moved back home to Utah in the late summer of 2017 after 12 years in Montana and have two season's worth of recon work in the unit and season I'm putting in for. Last year this unit took 11 so I'm sure I'll draw. I was going to do it this year, but the DNR decided to give me an expo tag and ruined all my plans . So, here goes.

First I'm going post up some footage of bulls from this unit just before, during, and right after the hunt dates, so I'm banking on 2019 to repeat itself.

Here's one of the best bulls I saw. Ive seen him both years and this year her was broken on his right sword. I know how lots of people feel about broken bulls, but this bull is a tank that I'd shoot him opening day without one ounce of hesitation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8t8J8QYIr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkNfLE32VQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4juZ6bcS6ZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkhE2NzkihI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbvMHKemrFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV3-9es1Cag

The mass on this main beams and back end is sooooo cool.

 

[Bowhuntrben]

Looking forward to this continuing!

 

[noharleyyet]

I'm in...

 

[Addicting]

Are you going to be able to go in and find his sheds? I’m following.

 

[Stubaby]

I’ve never been a shed guy. Some bulls I was watching above my house this spring (same unit) stayed in the same spot till they dropped. I grabbed my nephew and climbed the 2700 vertical feet to where they were. There were 6 mature bulls and 9 or so rag horns. I knew nobody had been in there based on there being no tracks in the snow. I was hoping to have a haul but we only turned up this single.

I’m still not sure I’m a shed guy. These bulls winter in and out of knee to shoulder deep scrub oak.

Trying to describe how bad this sucks to hike in it like trying to explain the gumbo in the Breaks to someone. My first fall in Montana I wash heading to Havre from Billings. At the top of Fred Robinson I walked off the shoulder to take a leak. It was maybe 3 steps off the road but I had to put my shoes in a trash bag in the trunk and I had to buy new shoes in Havre.

He got $147 for this single antler so I might keep at them.
I’ll look for sheds but I’m not sure how hard.

 

[The Hedgehog]

He got $147 for this single antler so I might keep at them.

I might have to get new readers, but how? What is the price per pound of brown now? Might be time to sell.

 

[Stubaby]

Ya. I couldn’t believe it. I even asked my brother in law to make sure.

 

[Art Vandeley]

I need to sell my collection if they're worth that much

 

[Stubaby]

Price check.

$14 per pound for brown. He got $132 for that one. Still really High imo

 

[The Hedgehog]

9.4lb antler? Wow, must be made of lead. Or that's why some call it brown gold. I was thinking you found somewhere to sell them for over $25/lb.

 

[TheTone]

Yeah, that horn buyer has a broken scale if that thing is 9.4# or UT bulls have really dense antlers

 

[EYJONAS!]

I think your scale or the guys scale that bought it was broken. I've sold and bought a lot of horn and that shed isn't much over 5lbs. Good for him though sounds like he made out on the right end though

 

[Stubaby]

Something is amiss. I hauled my scale to the garage. My bull that is 317” with the skull plate is 16.4 lbs.


Anywho. Here’s a bull I saw the week before hunt started. He got killed on the opener. Any score guesses?

 

[The Hedgehog]

The live bull pics has a huge body which makes judging tough. Looks under 300, but if he’s really that obese he could be well over that. Long on the fronts but mediocre elsewhere. I wouldn’t call him a Utah shooter on a limited quota permit. Nice elk regardless.

Out of curiousity- I weighed the last set of antlers I picked up in the spring of 2017. Shot this elk in fall of 2017. The sheds are 8.6lbs each. Had another antler in my living room I weighed at 13.7lbs. It’s white but I shot that bull a year or 2 later.

Here’s a pick of the 8lb antlers. Even at 25/lb. these aren’t for sale.

 

[Stubaby]

Kurt, How big you think that’s bull in the video is?

 

[The Hedgehog]

I couldn’t give a remotely confident guess from
those videos, maybe 320-330 if I had to guess.

 

[cahunter805]

Stu
That bull in the video is certainly a cool bull. Lots of character and the mass is cool on the back end. I’d agree with GH. I’d say 330s if not broken.

 

[CATAHOULA12]

Nice bull no doubt.

 

[Stubaby]

goofy elk

Here is a cool bull I watched for an evening in the velvet on the unit I had a tag for this year. I'm sharing it because he was later harvested on the Johnson Ranch CWMU. He was cool. Big drop brow tine that seemed to rub the dirt when his nose was down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vpGtbuNs6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enSSE7uLF8U

there is a close up video and the dead photo of this bull on this guys insta page.

https://www.instagram.com/ivideowildlife/

 

[Stubaby]

Here’s an update. My 2019 hunting season was almost for not. In mid September I got a staff infection in my right knee. It was in the bursa sac and required 4 days in the hospital and a $56,000 tab. Lucky it didn’t get into the joint or the blood stream so I was able to at least get around decent in mid October.


My LE Wasatch late tag started November the 9th so I tried to get as many miles on the knee that I could.
The surgeon gave me the green light on Halloween so I started scouting the areas I’d seen bulls the previous two years.
Here’s some pics of before during and after the knee episode.