Congratulations Dave

[SteveMcD]

#5231

[David Petersen]

#38602

Thanks, Steve. Obviously Alex let the cat out of the bag. I just dropped him off at the bottom of the mountain in the dark — he has two days left and the elk have quit bugling and gone to ground. They must not like jazz musicians. 😀 Ironically, after packing a camera every day of the hunt, on this evening I forgot it so all I have are post-butchering shots from the pack-out next morning. I have killed 3×4, 3×5,4×5, and 5×6 over the years but never even heard of a 4×6, which makes this rack special to me. The two sides are symmetrical in beam and tine length, but one has two more points. One shot with “Ashby” arrow set-up — bull walked, not ran, 15 yards and down and dead all in seconds. Of the two dozen or so elk I’ve killed with stickbows, only three have done this — down and dead within sight — and all three were shot with heavy arrows and two-blade heads.

[Raymond Coffman]

#38614

David —
Well Done ! Nice Bull — As you say, I have not seen [ or heard of] a 4×6 configuration particularly with even main beam length; makes for a more interesting experience.
Ambuscade at the spring ?
Good Luck to Alex ! and to all other Members ———
Scout

[Nate Bailey]

#38692

Good Job Dave, Nice bull!

[strait-aero]

#38694

Way to go,Dave! Hope Alex has some luck left in him….or skill. Would like to hear a more detailed account of the hunt from both of you. 😀 Wayne

[Nate Bailey]

#38703

What a beaut! Isn’t it magical when it all comes togather! we are so lucky to be able to hunt these fine creatures! Enjoy the fruits of your labor!

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#38708

Awesome. Strong work, Dave and congrats!!

[Troy Breeding]

#38859

Very unusual. Still, a trophy in our eyes.

Any pics fo what the broadhed did?

Troy

[David Petersen]

#38875

“Any pics of what the broadhed did?”

Nope. Amazingly, the arrow slipped between ribs both in and out, just barely nicking one. In part that may well be due to the extreme narrowness of the Tuffhead; one of the things I like about it. It was a double-lunger and the whole chest cavity was just big mushy globs of blood and I’ve never seen an elk blow so much blood from its mouth in dying. A heart shot would have been gratifying to me, but it couldn’t havde killed him any faster. Here’s the head what done it:

[Troy Breeding]

#38892

The narrowness of the blade is one of the things I like about heads with this style. Over the years I’ve used several different style heads with great results, still the narrow heads seem to do the job as well as the wide ones.

Ed has told me about seeing somewhat of a starburst pattern in the lung tissue after having a single bevel head pass through.

Troy

[skifrk]

#38896

Congrats Dave beautiful bull.

[David Coulter]

#38900

That’s terrific! My big game, whitetails, is still a week and a half away. Cheers to you with a good glass of the best cheap red wine. dwc

[SteveMcD]

#38970

Congrats, Dave! He is beautiful! I figured I’d post up! Knew you would be modest about it, so…. 8)

Thanks for getting Alex in shape! He carry my deer out too! :P:lol: Oh, I wish him well, even a cow if he’s legal too.

[Jason Wesbrock]

#38973

Congrats, Dave. Well done.

[Idabow]

#38990

Congratulations Dave, another fine animal for you (and us) to enjoy. I hope to do the same tomorrow as I head out for a five day hunt.

[WICanner]

#39077

Congrats on a fine bull, Dave. Nice antlers, and I’m sure plenty of meat for the freezer too. A job well done.

[Ed Ashby]

#39097

Hi Don,

Troy Breeding wrote: Ed has told me about seeing somewhat of a starburst pattern in the lung tissue after having a single bevel head pass through.

Not exactly, Troy. The ‘starburst’ cut is common in intestine hits, but not the lungs. With lung hits one often sees “homogenized’ lung tissue; tissue all mushed up. I can’t take credit for the ‘homogenized’ moniker; Ray Hammond came up with that after looking at the lungs of hogs he’d shot with the Grizzly. The other unique cut often seen with single-bevel broadheads is the “L-Shaped” cut, often seen on exit wounds and on liver, heart and kidney hits.

Congratulations, Dave, on a fine, clean kill, hunted and taken fair and square, and with a unique rack to boot.

Ed

[Vintage Archer]

#39106

David congratulations on the fine elk.:D It is a beautiful trophy .Do you have room left in the cabin for another rack? When you get caught up will we get a story? I have been following post on Tradbow is this how it happened?

RE: Discipline in the field
Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Walking and calling are fun hunting, and as you say they combat boredom. But for killing elk you can’t beat sitting in silence, long boring hours and days, in a place with plenty of recent sign, or several such places. Thomas “T” Downing is the most successful cow-calling elk hunter I’ve known–he called in a bull for me two years ago and had several others going crazy in a place where I hadn’t heard a bugle or seen a bull in nearly a week. But T has the vocal magic and most of us don’t. IMHO

Congratulations again! I am real glad the TuffHead worked out for you .Including yours this is the third reported elk killed with the TuffHead in the past week .It was a good week for the TuffHead and a bad week for elk. I am looking forward to the details of the hunt.
Joe Furlong
http://www.tuffhead.com

[William Warren]

#39174

Way to go Dave!!!!

[David Petersen]

#39309

Thanks guys, one and all. Yes, I will be writing a story about this year’s hunt for TBM, as lots of fun stuff happened before the end came. Which is why I’m being stingy on details here. 😀 I still have a deer tag, cow elk and turkey, plus grouse if I run across any. Henceforth, the Shrew and carbon arrows having earned my winter’s meat, I’m hunting with an osage selfbow given to me by a friend, and wood arrows fletched with turkey feathers from a bird killed on the Aldo Leopold “Shack” property this spring, another very special gift. Such gifts deserve to be honored by wild blood. Thanks again and I wish one and all as much fun this season as I’ve been having. Meat and antlers are a bonus. A true hard hunt is the real deal. Dave

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#39310

That was a great day to be on the mountain! Packing such a beautiful animal with Dave was a priceless experience. The Elk are making it really hard for me, since they are nowhere to be found for the last 3 days. I’ve been hiking, glassing and hunting from before sunrise to sunset everyday. But, there is still tomorrow !!8)

[Steve Sr.]

#39414

Late to the party but every bit as tickled as anyone!

Send photos to Joe Furlong too!! (am sure you already did).

Dang………that’s one big “deer” to us flatlanders. 😀

CONGRATS!!

God Bless
Steve Sr.

[horserod]

#39475

Congrats Ed ! What poundage is your Shrew that you used one this Elk ?/ Tom

[Raymond Coffman]

#39865

Alex —
Bonne Chance ! run it out to the end —
11th hour success is always the most remembered—and deserved.
Scout.

[anointedarcher]

#40251

very nice!

[tailfeather]

#40498

Fantastic on all counts. Salud!

[epenfold]

#45410

Congrats on the elk and good luck on the rest of the tags.

[Bill Kissner]

#45429

Congratulations on the bull David! I was hunting west of you over near Mancos. A good friend killed a 4X6 also this season. It too was a nice evenly proportioned rack.

[David Petersen]

#45874

Bill K — if you have a good pic of that Mancos bull could you please post so I can compare it to mine (not size but point configuration, as this is quite rare or so I thought).

Good cow hunt last night, minus any cows. I was pinned down all evening but a screaming bull in my face; a lonely loser aced out of breeding by the Big Boy, and an easy target to cow call in. Where was he when Alex was here? Where were all the elk when Alex was here. I advised him to come late, as year after year that’s a red-hot week, last week of the season. But this year everything happened two weeks early and ended just as the Piano Man arrived. That’s hunting …

[rnorris]

#46293

Wow!! Outstanding Dave! It makes the whitetail I’m going to kill Saturday morning pale:D

[Bill Kissner]

#46352

David, I do not have any pictures of the 4X6 but a friend does. I will try to get one from him and post it.

[Bill Kissner]

#46366

David, here is the pic of Tony’s bull.

[Raymond Coffman]

#46470

Wow — 2 in one year — cool
Scout.

[David Petersen]

#46474

Thanks, Bill. When I first walked up on my bull, the first antler I saw was the 4-tine side. Give the size of it I thought, Wow, I’ve just killed a world-record 4×4! I was actually disappointed to count 6 on the other side. Symmetry has its place but I love the unusual. I get really jealous of folks to kill cactus bucks, club horns and other really radically “freak” antlers. Guess I’m a bit of a freak myself so am attracted to it. Dave

[tom-wisconsin]

#46891

Great shooting Dave. It is amazing how you aimed between the rib bones.:D

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#47010

Nice Elk!
As far as I’m concerned, it was a great hunt, even if the Elk played hard to kill…hear… see!
I might have paid back some bad karma from last deer season, where I shot 2 bucks by mistake. I had the tags but only wanted one:(

[Nate Bailey]

#47031

David Petersen wrote: Bill K — if you have a good pic of that Mancos bull could you please post so I can compare it to mine (not size but point configuration, as this is quite rare or so I thought).

Good cow hunt last night, minus any cows. I was pinned down all evening but a screaming bull in my face; a lonely loser aced out of breeding by the Big Boy, and an easy target to cow call in. Where was he when Alex was here? Where were all the elk when Alex was here. I advised him to come late, as year after year that’s a red-hot week, last week of the season. But this year everything happened two weeks early and ended just as the Piano Man arrived. That’s hunting …

Its funny you say they were two weeks early Dave. That seemed to be the case out here also. On the second weekend we already found full on rubs, and wallows. The bull we cow called was as hot as any I have ever seen. Usually it doesn’t get like that until after the 15th in my neck of the woods.

[JEMBO]

#47089

A freind and I saw a 6×1 opening day, thought one side was broken off but looked like an odd spkie when we checked the photo he snapped.And talk abour odd, I came across a prarie rattler at near 9,000′ this past weekend. In thirty years of roaming these mountains never saw one that high.

[David Petersen]

#47621

To give Alex his due, here he is packing bull and sacrificing his own hunting time to do it. We had a big bugling bull pass by on the ridge just above us as we were walking in next morning to pack meat … and Alex with meat pack rather than bow. He always carries way more than his fair share … a perfect elk camp guest! 😀

[paleoman]

#48477

well, everyone else has said it all. when something goes really well I say “SWEET POTATOES!!”.

[George Tsoukalas]

#58441

Outstanding! Congratulations! Jawge

[jmsmithy]

#63635

Hey Dave

Sorry I’m so late to the party…congrats my friend :!::!:

You have truly been an inspiration to not only me but all of us….Hopefully I have similar luck on bruins during my Adirondack excursion next week…I know we’ll hunt hard, honestly on foot and canoe to get us in back swamps…our pilot loaning us a small one to get into some of the swamp areas. I know the experience will be there for my buddy and I…swirling campfire tendrils of smoke, smell/sound of pine boughs popping in the fire, call of the Loons off our lakefront campsite, coyotes screaming us to sleep…a place I’m sure we all truly feel at home in…:D

Can’t wait to read the story my friend…thank you and Congratulations again :!::lol:

Be Well…>>>–> John

[Todd Smith]

#8579

Yeah, I see I’m a bit late too, but congrats Dave!! I”m tickled for you. Can’t wait to read the article. That’s a fine lookin’ specimen. 😀

[wildschwein]

#10140

Congrats on the beautiful Elk Mr Peterson!

[Hormoan]

#10531

Better late than never:) Just wandered over here! Nice Bull Dave and congratulations! Its great to see you are keeping Alex in shape. Sitting around on a bench will make a guy soft:D

[David Petersen]

#10721

Well, my belated thanks to all you nice folks who have offered belated congrats. Sometimes we get lucky. 😀

And Brent — Glad to see you here. Hang around and join our conversations.

I’m still hunting on a late-season cow tag, but since right after I killed that bull, back on the 17th, my hunting area has been elkless. First rifle just started and I have hopes the pressure will move them from whereever they’ve disappeared to, and back down my way. Ain’t never seed nuthin like it afore. Downright spooky out there night after night in dead total weird silence, feeling and likely being the only large living mammal on the mountain. Maybe the gods of hunting are telling me not to be so greedy. dave

[Todd Smith]

#11539

Ha! I think I have at least an idea of the feeling Dave. I haven’t been seeing anything. But then again, hunting has been rushed. Pop in to a likely spot, sit for a while, but so far nothing has materialized.

Best of luck for the remainder of the season.

todd

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