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I'm not sure if this story is true, can anyone confirm it?
This guy who had a North Cache County muzzle loader
permit, had not been successful yet and had went home to shower and
re-stock. Well on his way back to camp he runs up on these two guys in a
strange predicament, they had this big Bull Elk all wound up in a Barbwire
Fence and trying to get him out! Like how do you get a mad Bull Elk
untangled from a 1/2 mile of Barbwire? SO he asked who owned the property
and the older gentleman said he did and said if you have a tag, please help
us.
The rest is history and this may be a new Utah State record Elk!
What would you do? Hell yeah!
There is no way to get close enough to get him out of the mess, your in the
middle of nowhere (Randolph foot hills), by the time the Fish and Game got
there he would have killed himself, it's within your hunting unit, you have
the land owners permission, Or if they did happen to get him kinda cut out
he would have died with anything that was still attached.
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I was wondering when that was going to surface here. the second I saw the title of the thread I knew what it was going to be.
The guy who killed that bull is a very good friend of mine. There are only about 2 words in that story that are actually true. I think he measured the bull at like 363 or 367 - not even close to a state record. He had a muzzleloader cache meadowville tag. They were driving along the road out in Round Valley and his son spotted the elk sleeping in the barrow pit. They thought the elk was dead (no one else was at the scene when they first found it), and it had like 300 feet of barbed wire tangled up in it's antlers. Someone else showed up while they were out checking it out. The elk woke up, jumped up, and ran off almost running right over the top of him. The elk made a spectacular jump over a 5 strand fence, and ran out into a field and stopped and laid down out near a farmer's haystack. I couldn't tell you how far it ran from where they first found it, but I got the impression it was pretty far, but not too far to tell where it went. The first guy he ran into was actually the owner of the field and gave him permission to go out and kill it. He snuck up on the bull and killed it. I think he said that it took 4 shots to do the job.
This guy and his son have been friends with my dad and I for over 20 years. We spend alot of time together. They are two of the luckiest hunters you will ever meet. . . unbelievably lucky. I first heard the short version of the story from my dad 10-12 days ago, and couldn't wait to here it firsthand. He finally showed up at my dad's garage about a week ago and gave me the full version (along with a couple chunks of salami that he had made from the elk). I was in stitches! He had the thread from monster muleys all printed out and we hashed over the 20 or so discrepencies.
I tried to tell the story as close to exactly what he told me as possible. It's an amazing story that probably could have only happened to this guy or his son.
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WOW. How would it be. Some people simply have all the luck.
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That's wierd, I got this email two days ago and it said they were in Montana [crazy]
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I have been waiting for my buddy to get done with his guide duties on Deseret as he lives in Round Valley near Bear Lake and see what the true poop was I also have a friend on the South end of the valley to see what his story is. I knew it wasn't close to the state muzzy record but a heck of a nice bull for sure. I'm glad you shed some light on this. I saw the story and pics a few weeks back and kind of wondered then what the true skinny was.
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I could see the bull wasn't a state record and I know how these internet stories get passed around. I figured it wasn't even shot in utah but I'm glad someone knew the real story, thanks for sharing it. It would be a once in a lifetime bull for most of us and the guy was one lucky hunter. WH2
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Ya, it's too bad these things get so far from the truth by the time they make a few rounds. Hopefully now there's a few more people who know the real story..
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Hey Pete, There;s only two people that own ground down there and its Rog and his dad or Stewart Whamsley. I know the area. Seen elk down there before and it could have happened in that area. Will be interesting to see if Rog can shed some light.
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4 shots!?!?!?! I know elk are tough but honestly. Anyway great bull, beautiful tine length for sure!
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Ive seen some big bulls take alot of abuse from a bullet over the years. They are pretty dang tough citters.
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Yes, I also remember snowmobileing up there over the years and those fields were always full of elk Not any more. maybe a few here and there and thats it. There are still good elk numbers in that area though,
And Yes, Mr. Whamsley is up the creek without a paddle on this one I think.
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