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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bowhunter_24" data-source="post: 223978" data-attributes="member: 329">Haunt is a good and accurate word. I spotted a 380" bull a half mile away and way below me. I ripped a bugle and he cut me off instantly and turned on a dime. He was in the wide open and coming right for me. I would let out a challenge bugle and he would respond instantly. Well it was very apparent he was coming for me. I was up a big cliff and on top of a sage flat.when he was getting close to coming up and over I knelt by the nearest sage bush. I saw the tips of his huge bladed antlers first. Then his nose and then the whites of his eyes. I was drawn back and he stopped broadside but slightly quartering towards. I let my arrow fly. It buried in his shoulder but got good penetration. He literally jumped down a 10' cliff and crashed. And got up and ran like hell. I watched him go down the big cliff and into the wide open and started going up the other side. I can hear his massive antlers rubbing the cedars as he struggled to this day. Then he bedded. My partner and I were jacked. Thought it was a done deal. We watched him in the 95 degree heat for 5 hours. The whole time he would try to get up and then fall down. He would lay his head completely down for ten minutes at a time and we would think he's dead and then he would struggle again. Finally we decided I needed to get another arrow in him. I went way around and came down on him. I got to 10 yards but could not get a shot. I decided I would wait it out. A few hours went by and he stood up and lunged threw my only opening I had. I pulled back and he saw me and took off. He went up and over the hill. I sprinted to the top and watched him WALK across a sage flat and then stop at the trees and acted like he was gonna tip over. Then went into the trees. Then I decided we would give him the night. It was already probably 10 hours since I shot him. We tracked him on shale for 4.5 miles the next day. Drop of blood by drop of blood. We never did find him. It makes me literally sick to think about. I learned the hard way to stay the hell away from an elks shoulder.- - - Updated - - -And the one that gets away is always the biggest but believe me this bull was all of 380</blockquote>

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