My dads 08 roadless book cliffs bull

great pics how about a story

Tis a beauty! Thanks for sharing! :thumb

Great bull thanks for sharing! :thumb

Well lets see it was a really long week lol. We packed in six miles from the truck a week before and set up camp and a few trail cams and took some food in. We saw around twenty cows and like four bulls. We left our tent in there and hung some food up then made the trip back out to the truck. We packed back in the day before the hunt and got camp set up again and went to look around a little more and check the trail cameras. Opening day we rode back about six more miles further in and came to a really nice mellow drainage. We called a few times and had a couple bulls respond, then a decent six point came out, and started coming up towards us. If I would have had the tag I probably would have shot it lol, it would have scored like 318 nothing huge, but it was the first bull we had seen withing 100 yards. So it got withing 50 yards, saw us and took off down into the nasty steep canyon. Then we had a few more bulls start talking down further in the drainage, we hiked down the side to get a look at them, there ended up being around fifteen bulls in the drainage with one herd bull that was a small six with around ten cows. We didnt see any shooters in that group but had a bull about fifty yards playing in a wallow.

Then next day we decided to go down into the steep stuff, We got out a little late. We started hiking around eight thirty, got into the trees a little ways and cow called, had some bulls respond so we got a little closer and called some more, we had one small bull come up to us and busted us and took the rest of them with him. We went over the top of the ridge and looked into the other canyon. Cow called a few times and had some bulls respond, one sounded really nice, so my dad wanted to try and get a look at him. We started working our way around the canyon, it was a really steep canyon. We got to a rock where we could see most of the canyon, we cow called a few times and had a bull in the next canyon bugle back, we had him come over the top of the ridge and down to the bull that we wanted to get a look at. The bull that came over the top was a decent 7x6, he went down and we herd some crashing in the trees below us. All of a sudden the canyon came alive, that 7x6 ran down to the bottom and busted up a heard of about ten cows and the bull we wanted to look at, the 7x6 took the cows back over the ridge and and was gone. About two minutes later the other bull came into view ( the one that was in the pictures) my dad only had a small window to decide if he was going to take it or not. After looking at him for a few seconds he decided to shoot him. His first shot hit the very tip of the bulls G2, luckily it just spun around and looked behind him, my dad shot him again and got him in the lungs. He shot one more time and hit him in the neck. We saw that he was down so we hustled down to get to him. When we got there he was still breathing so my dad shot him again. He flipped over and almost landed right on my dad, he was standing below him and it was pretty steep where he went down. After that the fun began lol. We cut him up and hung him up and headed back up the mountain to the horses. The next day we rode the long way around to the bottom to pack him out. It was a way fun trip but also a lot of work with the horses in there and not much food for them and so far away from the car. I will never forget going back into there with my dad and uncle.

Very cool! Looks like you had a fun fall with your dad and uncle killing great bulls. Congrats to both of them. :thumb

DAYUM! That is awesome!

Congrats on a great bull with your Dad and Uncle and a great bull. fatrooster.

Nice bull.Congrats

Another great bull. Good job.