Pics of Elk pushin daisies and What Did You Use?

[elkbreath]

I'm quite fired up here.  Neck is fixin to swell.  Can't take much more of this long hard wait.  Scoutin a couple of times a week, shootin more'n I should, makin grunt tubes and wearin out reeds.    

Anyway, the point of the thread.  I'd like to hear all the Successful Setups (bow,#,head, arrow, distance, etc...) that ya'll have used to take elk.  Also, show us those pics to prove it!
   

[elkbreath]

I'll start!  I've taken a pile of bulls with training wheels but, this is a TRAD thread.  this ones reaching back a little bit, I've only been shootin stickbows for 6 years.  He was the first bull I took with a longbow.

Called him up around 10 am.  Broadside shot @ 28 yards.  Arrow actually clipped a branch part way, cut it clean.  I think I only got one lung.  But, 150 yards later, dead is dead.  Many thanks were given for this bull.          

Recipe;
Home Made R/D Longbow-
62#@28", 2
8.5" Grizz Stik Alaskan.
Alum insert, 190 gr Ribtek off the tree branch into the lung.

[elkbreath]

  sorry, heres proof...

[**DONOTDELETE**]

nice.....that a 3pc T/D?

[Richie Nell]

Here'a a whipper snapper for my first elk I took last year.  
Black Widow PSA Osage 64#
Grizzly heads, 2317 765 grain arrow, 25 yards, heart and both lungs, bull died 30 yards later.

A lot of bulls and bugling everywhere.  I will be going back to T Bar M Outfitters this year.

[IMG]http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x39/Sapcut

[Richie Nell]

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x39/Sapcut/ElkHunt047.jpg

[Ray Hammond]

New Mexico
1999
Public land archery tag
Zipper recurve, aluminum 2216 with Magnus One

5 -7 yards

[elkbreath]

mystic, yep.   thanks for the input guys!  nice bulls!

[elkbreath]

same setup.

mystic, another pic of that bow with my first elk.

[bohuntr]

70lb @ 29 1/2" Robertson Vision Falcon
2020 Easton Legacy's tipped with Magnus Stinger 4 Blade.
25yds slightly quarting away -- complete penetration.

[Missouri Sherpa]

Super Shrew 67lb @29 1/2  600 gr carbon shaft with STOS broadhead  43 yards broadside   heart shot double lung

[Richie Nell]

bohntr...How did you get a 2020 to spine correctly pulling 70 lbs?

[elkbreath]

awesome guys!  Bohntr and sherpa, beautiful bulls.  we'd love to hear a story and general locale/tag.  sherpa, I think I'm going with the stos this year.  43 yards! good shot too.

[Missouri Sherpa]

Elkbreath,

I posted a pictorial of that hunt a year and a half ago.  I have done a few picture stories that you newly registered tradgangers probably haven't seen. I will bring them up in a new thread:  Chronicles of the Missouri Sherpa    I will post it in a few minutes.

[elkbreath]

I'll find it.  thanks.

PS, I used to be 'purist' not elkbreath, been around here a little while.

[bohuntr]

Richie can't really tell you. That particular bow seemed to like a little lighter spine than I would have expected. I started out trying to shoot 2219's which had worked out of my 65lb Habu Death Adder but that was too stiff. The 2020's would make a bullet hole when paper tuning and broadhead tipped arrows flew great so that is what I used. I now use Easton Axis 340's with extreme front of center by adding 125gr brass inserts and shooting a 185 gr. Snuffer.

[J-dog]

Missouri Sherp, I didn't think a two blade left a blood trail? Stop going against the norm please!    

Great photos guys, hopefully head out that way in 2009.

J

[elkbreath]

TTT.  Just once... Gotta be more elk here!

this one took 65# I believe, and a zwickey eskimo.

[blueslfb]

TTT.... C'mon guys there has to be more elk pics out there.  I leave in a month for Montana and I need to see some more pics to get my fix.

[Steertalker]

September 2006....Somewhere NW of Durango


Brett