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Let me share a wonderful Oregon public land hunt with you.Two wonderful friends of mine Rod Polson and Ben Parolini.These two guys are members of Legends Bows Pro-staff and are very good friends.Ben was unable to make this hunt with us this year,but made a very good sorce of weather information for us.We would contact him every other day for a weather report.Rod and i left sunny California early on the morning of sept.6.We arrived in camp in Oregon at 6:00pm that same day.Set up camp and hit the sack.At dawn that next morning we set out to hang stands over two wallers found the year before.After the stands were up we hunted that evening.So far we heard no bugles and seemed the rut was not yet kicking off.After a few days of rain,hail and frost at nights we felt like it should be close at hand.Still no bugles were heard.I did try but with no answer.We set stands about 6 hrs every evening over the un-hit wallers.On 9-11 all this was about to change.Rod and i headed to our trees about 3:00pm.I got set up in my stand at about 4:00pm and played a few games on my electronic Yahtzee game.At about 5:45pm half way through my yahtzee game i heard something up on the side hill.I looked up and my heart jumped when i saw a monster 6x6 bull side hilling about 100 yrds to my left.I reached down and hit my hoochy moma call 3 times.The bull stopped and then turned my way.He then started my way.Within a minute he was almost on top of me.As his head went behind a large pine i drawed back.When he past the pine he was within 15yrds.I picked a spot in the middle of his massive ribcage and dumped the string.The arrow buried up to my lime feathers.I hung my bow up and seat down.I did this for two reasons,one i thought i would drop my bow and second i thought i would fall down.My partner Rod had showed up late evening and ended up with me with the bull down.We were both going nuts.From punching each other to hugging each other.We both thought of our buddy Ben back home and only wished he could be with us to celebrate this awesome bull god had gifted me with.This bull is a bull of a life time for me,and a memory for a life time.I want to thank god,my wife,family and Rod(the pack mule)for such a wonderful hunt.
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Congrats on an awesome bull!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus hunting with friends. A great combo.
Hey my friend,what dreams are made of! Congradulations!
Lots of awesome bulls taken this year, and yours is no exception. Great job! I'm feeling a little green right now!
Great bull and congrats!
Congrats!!!
BOY-O-BOY! you done great. Congratulations!
Chuck
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Wow! Great hunt!
Way To Go Dude!
Great Bull!! Congrats!! :thumbsup:
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Way to go . I love it when Californians come up here and kill my elk . LOl Just kidding. Hope to share a camp and meet you some day. That is really a great Oregon bull. One of the best I have seen. God surely blessed you , Steve
Great job !!! memories for years right there :wavey:
Congrats!
Awesome animal! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Beautiful elk!!! Congrats!!
NICE. Congrats
Sweeeet! Great bull, congrats!!! :clapper:
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:archer2: :archer2: :archer2: AWESOME!
Great shot on a very *nice* 6x6 right there!
Enjoy the feast!
Shoot straight, Shinken
That is one nice elk. Well done.
:thumbsup: :clapper: GREAT BULL'''
Totally sweet! :thumbsup:
How cool is that!!!! Congrats..
That bow has some MOJO now.CONGRATS
Sweet! Must have been nerve racking...
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Beautiful animal, congrats!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :archer:
I know I couldnt make the trip this year, but how about throwing just one backstrap steak my way, besides isnt that part of the whole brotherhood thing :readit:
all kidding aside, great bull Mike, wish I could have been there. Ben
WOW! What an acomplishment!
Congratulations sir!!!
Fantastic !!! I would have fallen out of the stand before I hung up my bow :) Great job, something to savor for years to come !!
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What a bull :thumbsup: Congrats!!
Persistence pays off, congrats on a beautiful bull. :clapper:
Wow! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I hope you are enjoying living my dream Michael. Awesome stuff right there.
Awesome Bull!!
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Man o Man what a nice bull Congradulations. :thumbsup:
Great Bull Way To Go! :thumbsup:
Thanks guys for all the comments,Yes, Ben i think i have a back strap for you.lol Have you all noticed how well it seems alot of Tradgangers are doing on elk this year.How awesome!
Some folks have pm me asking about my set up on this bull.Sorry i should have put that in the story.Bow was a Legends Safari Elite recurve 51# @ 31".Arrow was a AD Lite shaft 508 grns.With a Magnus II 2-blade.That combo worked awesome i may add.
Congrats :thumbsup:
Great bull, great story and great pics.
Thank you for sharing.
Congrats on a very nice Bull!!!
This is the year for tradgangers and elk.There has been some nice post so far already.
My hunting partner Rod(the mule) is going to hunt the late cow hunt with his tag.he could use some help from some of you Oregon Tradgangers,Thanks for any help you may have.
very nice bull :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Great bull!
This is DEFINITELY the year for Tradgangers and big bull elk!!!!
Congratulations on a great trophy.
Mike, that's a dandy Bull. To bad Ben didn't make a great hunt.
That'll be some good eating.
Muz
Love to find those bulls out cruisin' for some cows! Sounds like he was very accomodating to your calling.
Thanks Muz,Your right Snag,if not for the cow call he would have just walked on.Its the first of my limited elk hunting that i could say for sure i called one in.
That is one fine animal! Couldn't have happended to a nicer guy. Congratz my friend.
Oregon has traditionally managed it's elk for quantity, not quality. That is a tremendous bull, and an outstanding accomplishment!