Bulls (and WOLF) of 2009…Brandon Miller & Jeremy Nesset – Idaho Elk

My good friend and college roommate, Brandon Miller, sent me these pictures of his Idaho wolf shot last week in north-central Idaho.
Brandon, and good friend Jeremy Nesset, also sent these pictures of the big elk they shot during their rifle elk hunt this fall. Jeremy recapped the elk hunt as follows:

Bulls of 2009….Heath Forsey’s Idaho Archery Elk

Former BSU and NFL football standout, Brock Forsey, sent me this picture of his brother, Heath’s, bull.
“Here is a pic of the bull my brother shot, first morning called him in to 40yds and he let him have it, went about 50 yds and crashed! I had an opportunity at a really nice six point [...]

Bulls of 2009….Cory Chilton’s Big Elk

Cory Chilton came out to Idaho from Iowa for a DIY, public land archery elk hunt and took his first elk ever!
“Here is a pic of my 2009 6X6 bull taken at 9:30 AM on 9-19-09 in Idaho on public lands. He came in screaming to a few soft cow calls, offered a 30 yard [...]

Bulls of 2009….Jason Stafford’s Wyoming Bull

Jason Stafford took this great bull in his home state of Wyoming.
“The bull was taken Sept. 24 on a general tag here in Wyoming.  I spotted a cow and the bull at first light feeding on an open hillside.  I have horn hunted this area for years, so I knew which bedding area they were [...]

Bulls of 2009….Greg Bokash’s Wyoming Bull

Sitka Pro Staff member Greg Bokash took an awesome bull in Wyoming this fall.
“I hope you all are having a great season so far. I just got back from WY last night and got a bull that I am very proud of after 14 days. He is a 6×6 335.  I saw alot of elk [...]

Bulls of 2009….Year of the Freaks!

I think I’ve seen more “freak” elk this fall than in years past. Here are pictures of 4 bulls we’ve received, all with similar antler configuration.
You all remember Dave Perry’s big bull…

Bulls of 2009….Joe Bell’s Wyoming Bull

Sitka Pro Staffer Ron Niziolek hunted his home state of Wyoming with his good friend Joe Bell (Bow and Arrow Hunting magazine) this fall. Ron described their hunt like this:
“I hunted with my Arizona friend Joe on Friday and we did pretty good!  This is Joe’s biggest bull ever.  We had a blast.  I called [...]

Bulls of 2009….Jeremy Ell’s Colorado Elk

Jeremy Ell shot his first archery elk on public land in Colorado this fall! Congrats Jeremy!
“Just wanted to let you know I took my first archery bull this season (first time archery hunting!) Dan Jordan came down to do the calling for me, which strangely made things easy this year… Colorado is a whole different [...]

Bulls of 2009….Michael Kessinger’s Idaho Archery Elk

Here’s a report from long-time friend, Michael Kessinger, on his 2009 Idaho archery, public land, DIY bull.
“Well I hunted pretty hard for elk this year. I had a number of close calls and passed on a few spikes and forked horns in the first couple days. By Saturday, September 26, I was pretty sure I [...]

Bulls of 2009….Sean Haggerty’s Idaho Bull

Perserverance paid off for good friend Sean Haggerty as he was able to connect on this great 6X6 towards the end of archery season. Sean called the big bull into bow range on a DIY hunt on public land here in Idaho. Congrats Sean!

Bulls of 2009….Darren Simonson’s Colorado Bull

Good friend Darren Simonson shot this awesome Colorado bull with an over-the-counter archery tag, DIY on public land. Congrats Darren!

Bulls of 2009….Brandon Prince ID Bull

Here is an awesome bull shot on public land, DIY, in Idaho this fall. Brandon Prince arrowed this big bull at 10 yards during the first few days of archery season.
“Corey, what a season 2009 was!!!!!!!    Lots of scouting  pre season paid off big time.   Guiding fishing for a living doesn’t work well with archery [...]