My brother Jons 5X6

[code]

Will get to posting a story later. Here is a pic for now though.

[coyote101]

What a magnificent trophy!    Congratulations to Jon. 

Pat

[FOsteology]

Very nice. Congrats to the young man on a fine elk. Looking forward to hearing all about it!

[nailbender]

  Niiice!  I'd be smilin' too!

[FinsnFur]

Very nice indeed, Code

[possumal]

I never cease to be amazed at how magnificent bull elk can be. Kudos to the young man on a great trophy elk.

[Hawks Feather]

Great looking elk and one to be very proud about.

Jerry

[code]

It was my first time scoring an animal so I am not sure I did it right but this is what I came up with:
Number of Points:   
11
Greatest Spread:   
35 4/8 inches
Total Deductions:   
9 2/8 inches
Final Score:   
241




If I scored him within 15 pts. he will make P&Y.

[Okanagan]

Looking forward to more of the story.  Code's uncle just sent me a pic taken in the woods, below.   




   

[KySongDog]

Congratulations!!   That is something to be proud of for sure!     

[Carolina Coyote]

Very nice Elk, Congratulations to the young man !!  cc

[Dave]

You make sure you fist pump Jon for me!  That's incredible!!!!!      
Can't wait to hear about it!  I want to hear ALL about it, right down to how you got it out and how it tastes.

[Okanagan]

Jon's grin says it all!

Code and I talked and it would help him if I posted the basics of their story and then he can embellish or correct!

I kept camp with the boys for a few days early in the season then their uncle went back with them for the end.  He is a very good elk hunter and knows that terrain and animal patterns there.

The rut was heating up and bulls answered their calling every day. Cody sneaked on a bugling bull and at 11 yards did a long stare down with the four point while he could only see the bull's head. No shot. Then on the last day, after Jon had filled his tag, Code sneaked on another vocal 5 point bull and passed two possible but poor shots at 30 and 40 yards. He is using a recurve.

For J's bull, Uncle David and Jonathan were a half mile out on a washed out spur road along a ridge and had a bull replying from far away in the canyon at 6:30 PM.  That bull was too far away to go after so late in the day so they started walking back toward the pick-up planning to go after the vocal bull the next morning. Then they heard a bull chuckling 150 yards down the mountainside below them.

Jonathan moved down toward the bull and waited in the old growth timber while Uncle David started calling from the ridge top. The bull came right up and Jon drew and held, didn't get the shot he wanted, so let down as the bull passed behind more cover. He drew again and the bull stepped out broadside at 25 yards.  Jon put an arrow tight behind the bull's shoulder half way up his side, arrow buried almost to the fletching.

Uncle David could see Jon draw and shoot but could not see the bull, which ran off down and around the hillside. 

They gave it half an hour and went after the good blood trail because it was getting dark though they would have preferred to give it more time. It was bedded 75 yards away and Jon put an arrow into the ribs from the other side when it stood, then another quartering away hitting liver and lungs. Any of the three were fatal.   David told me that arrow wound channels crisscrossed through lungs and heart.

The bull took a few more steps and then rolled several times downhill. 

They worked on it for two hours after dark in the warm weather getting it skinned, quarters hung to cool and air.  They each took out a load of meat in their daypacks, walking out by flashlight.  The pack out was steeply uphill 150 yards and then half a mile mostly uphill on an undulating trail/grown in road.   They finished at noon the next day with all of the meat at the pick-up.  Uncle David had to coach a kid's football game that afternoon so he took off to take the meat to a meat cutter's cooler on the way.

The boys stayed and Code kept hunting, getting one more chance on the 5 point bull mentioned above that he sneaked up on but passed on a poor shot. 

[Hawks Feather]

Sounds like both boys are what I think of as 'Good Hunters'.              They didn't try to take a shot just because something was there but only took a shot when it was one they knew was not going to have an animal lingering for days or worse yet running around till the arrow broke off.

Jerry

[JohnP]

Congratulations to Jon on a P&Y elk and thank to Code for the pictures and story,