Can't Pass That One Up!

Cold and windy, now its starting to spit rain!  Perfect conditions….. well maybe minus the wind!  P.T. Carter and Jamie Mace have a good bull that just laid down under a cedar tree to try and get a break from the wind.  Nice 6X6, with no broken points, which by the way is very hard to find this year.  They figured he was about a 330” bull and the two shivered while they mulled over whether or not this was the bull they wanted on the first day of the hunt.

The elk were just out of the rut, and almost any bull in the woods was busted to pieces!  From where the bull laid down, this would be an easy stalk ending in what should be a easy shot, but Jamie decided this just wasn’t the bull he wanted on day one of the rifle hunt!  Nothing like being picky on a hunt that was designed to be a harvest hunt, not a trophy hunt!

No problem, respectable bull, but not quite what he wanted, still lots of time left in the hunt.  This was, after all, the afternoon of the very first day.  P.T. and Jamie glassed this bull up right off the bat so there was no need to pack up and move just yet, theres still lots of country to see from here, and almost as quickly as they found this bull another group of bulls were glassed up!  The wind and rain continued to pick up making it a little difficult to see exactly what these four new bulls were, but from this distance and in these conditions, one looked promising!

The two packed up and began to move in for a closer look.  The trees and low lying ridges made it difficult to set up and get a good look, so they ended up moving within rifle distance before they were able to get a good look, and that’s all it took.  One of the four bulls was very heavy horned, and even though he had broke his fifth point, Jamie wanted to set up and shoot! 

The four bulls fed in and out of the trees when the one Jamie liked finally moved out into the open.  With video camera rolling, Jamie eased in behind his rifle and let one rip!  The bull immediately went down as the other four packed the mail for quieter territory!  The rain was really starting to move in, and the sun was moving out, so P.T and Jamie packed up once again and made their way to Jamie’s bull.

Upon inspection of his bull, a happy Jamie Mace kept saying “you don’t pass bulls like this on this hunt!”, and he was absolutely right.  His bull taped out at 350” with the missing 5^th!  Great bull on a late hunt!

 

You can watch the video of this hunt on MuleyBull Oufitters "Just Hunting, Volume 1" found at Amazon.com