All you hunters......

[SonofaBish]

Just thought I'd share a quick story that a few of my good friends on here already know....

This year in PA, 18,253 people paid to get into the lottery for a Elk license... out of those, only 56 elk linceses were given out. Of of taht limited number, only 18 were bull elk tags....

Well, it just so happens that my father won one of the bull elk tags... and it was the ONLY bull tag for the zone that he chose to hunt... The elk hunting season began this past Monday, Oct. 31 and runs thru this Friday...

I got a call on Monday night that my dad shot a 6x6 bull elk!! He had been giddy, he was so excited that he even won the tag, as its a once in a lifetime opportunity... and now, i can only imagine how giddy he is that he got one!! I'm really happy for him, as he has been an avid hunter his entire life, and its gotta be a dream come true!

*Unfortunately he wasn't able to get a weight on the animal... the private land owner between the state forest land and the road would not allow them to drag the animal across his property, so they had to quarter it right there in the woods and bring it out piece by piece... from research, i'm assuming it would have been around 600-800 lbs

I have a cell phone pic attached... i'll post up some more pics once he gets a chance to come home and put them on the computer...

[cemnt guy]

thats great. been trying for years to get one myself:goodidea:

[speedracer]

That's cool... I'd love to go on an elk hunt here in Pa... They are tasty too!

[Stangman701]

Pretty cool Bish. Tell the old man I said congrats!

[John4cam]

Awesome man. Those are some massive animals. I remember hunting them in AZ when I lived out there when a kid.

What caliber rifle did he use?

[SonofaBish]

Awesome man. Those are some massive animals. I remember hunting them in AZ when I lived out there when a kid.

What caliber rifle did he use?
he used my 30.06

[White5.0]

Awesome! I just had some Elk last week. My gf's dad went all the way out to Colorado to hunt and got one. Pretty tasty!

[pRojekt02GT]

That's awesome Bish!!! Good stuff!

One massive animal, and they get bigger. I didn't know about the whole elk tag deal, that's interesting. Obviously he picked a good spot to find a bull! Congrats to him!

[blizzard]

wow what a massive animal.. good hunt :thumbsup:

IN for some jerky :woot:

[Dan B.]

Good for him!! Friggin awesome!!

[lib88stang]

very awesome. congratz

[wick]

Congrats on the elk...but had he callled the game warden they would have told said land owner to f**k off and get the deer out of there. Its asshole land owners like that who really piss me off.

[KeystoneJohnny]

He's a big one. Nice bag.

[SonofaBish]

Congrats on the elk...but had he callled the game warden they would have told said land owner to f**k off and get the deer out of there. Its asshole land owners like that who really piss me off.
yea, he didn't seem to worked up about it, but i think that was just the pure excitement of getting the elk that was masking that... i can't figure out why the landowner would object... not like they were wanting to drive trucks back in there and tear it up...

[SonofaBish]

Pretty cool Bish. Tell the old man I said congrats!
:goodidea:

[TYR FRYR]

Congrats!

[phillysrt4]

*Unfortunately he wasn't able to get a weight on the animal... the private land owner between the state forest land and the road would not allow them to drag the animal across his property, so they had to quarter it right there in the woods and bring it out piece by piece...


How small can you be. What an a$$hole. The animal has already been harvested so what's the point of being a d***head and making it harder to preserve the meat by processing it in a better place?

And congrats on the elk!