Opening day success

Silver · Rancher Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 3638 Location: BC

I told myself this year I wasn't gonna be fussy. I was gonna shoot the first legal bull I saw. So I did, five minutes into the season, and now we have a nice oat fattened elk for the winter.
I couldn't find bullets for my 30.06 (my firearm of choice) Embarassed

, so I 'borrowed' my wifes 7mm-.08 and shot him at 285 yds through the heart. Bullet made it to the hide on the far side in one piece, nicely mushroomed. Cant ask for much more than that.

Oh, and this elk dressed out at 584lbs.

My son with elk:

Again:

My son and I

Some more oat eatin pests:

Silver · Rancher Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 3638 Location: BC

Here's a pic of it hanging, you can see how fat it is, and how white the fat is. And, as all us rancher / hunters know, the tractor is indispensable as part of the dressing process. Wink

Northern Rancher · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject:

Do they have an archery season there-those crop eating elk would be tasty stuff for sure.

Big Muddy rancher · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject:

Nice Elk.

Looks like you have a hunter coming up that will keep the freezer filled.

Denny · Rancher Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 4411 Location: Mn usa

pretty nice bull.I would love a chance at one sometime.

We have some oat eating critters here also.An 85 year old lady lets her dairy cows run wild as a beef herd kinda of deal. They run all over in the wild life management area of which I rent some of it. Needless to say 50 head of cows can wipe out a marginal oat crop pretty quickly.

Soapweed · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:46 am Post subject:

Nice bull elk, Silver, that should provide some very good eating. That is a fine young man there to help you. All that green countryside appears green and productive. Looks like you are enjoying living the good life and are a lucky man. Smile

DJL · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:56 am Post subject:

Pretty nice elk Silver and definitely nice and fat. Certainly good to fill the freezer and to make a new hat rack in the new house too, so a very multipurpose animal. We used to have the same problem in our greenfeed, but we don't farm anymore so now the neighbor who doesn't allow hunting and so shelters the elk through hunting season gets to enjoy watching his crops getting eaten by a hundred or two elk. Life is good!

Maple Leaf Angus · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:20 am Post subject:

Really nice elk there Silver. Congratulations on a good piece of shooting.

Denny · Rancher Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 4411 Location: Mn usa

HAY MAKER · Rancher Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 8307 Location: Texas

Nice elk,silver........you're sure right about tractors and dressing game,makes a hard job some what easier..............good luck

Northern Rancher · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:20 am Post subject:

Moose hunting sure gets hard after you pull the trigger.

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