My '04 archery elk

[Cooter]

First elk trip, 2nd day, public land in CO. 5X6 although the 6th on one side was present but probably not an inch - look near my right hand.

Not a good pic but a different angle

[Deitz Dittrich]

Dude- that looks like a blast, right up and to the point where someone says.. "Ok.. lets pack this out!"... I'm not sure I would ever walk right again, if I even attempted to carry a quarter of that beast!

[ZOKU]

Nice elk!!

[Rost]

I shake in my boots when a whitail walks by my stand! I can't imagine an elk. Congrats man!

[lawdog]

SWEET! I'm way jealous...

[Jim Hudson]

Awesome Elk Cooter.. Did ya bugle that boy into range?

[RussDaBuss]

awesome!! Nice NICE elk. Gotta do that soemday!! CONGRATS

[BLACKJACK]

Nice elk! Good job!

[FL SNIPER]

Ya...lets hear the story of how this all went down.

Great job! Congratulations.

[Gissert]

Great looking bull, Cooter. Very impressive animal. Very cool that you got him on public land, too.

[Cooter]

Here's some details, try to make it short:

North-central CO, camped at 9,200 ft approx 1.5 mi from WY border. Sept 5, no bugling heard at all. Second night spotted him in an old, overgrown beaver pond/creek area. Strong wind quartering towards me, 10 min of light left. Did a real, real fast stalk of a about 100 yrds. and got away with it due to the wind. Snuck up to within 15 yrd, he had his head down eating, facing directly away from me. All I could see was horns, butt, and a big nut sack. I knelt behing a small pine, he saw movement and made a couple big jumps out in front of me and stopped broadside to stare at me at 20 yrds. I drew, aimed, and let er fly, heard it hit but didn't know where. He bolted and disappeared in the timber, heard crashing then all was silent. Next morning found him 60 yrds in, pass through double lung shot. Boned him out rather than quartering, lots of work! Amazing how a little 100gr Thunderhead can kill that big of an animal in less than 10 seconds. The only elk I saw that week.

[bigbucks]

Nice job, beautiful elk, sounds like a lot of fun.

[Studer]

Nice work Cooter!! I bet that was a rush!!