2020 West Texas Elk is Home

My 2020 West Texas free-range elk is home. Safari Studios does great again.

Long story, short:
I was invited on a “once in a lifetime” hunt in Pecos County. We bugled bulls for 2 days, and saw this bull at about 1300 yards late in the evening with some cows. He isn’t the biggest, or highest scoring bull on the ranch, but it was a good representative sample for my first bull elk. I knew he’d look good on the wall. We went back on morning 3 to find him again in the same canyon with the cows. He went into a header out of site, so we made our way to the mouth of the header and tried to bugle him back out. We knew it might be tough since he had cows and their were about 10 other bulls in the canyon. After 30 minutes of calling, he came out and I shot him with my Bergara 300WM at 90 yards. Toughest part of the hunt was quartering him in the field in 105 degree weather.

How did the meat turn out in 105F.

Very nice!

It was okay. We were able to get a vehicle and ice chests close to the animal. There were 4 of us working on it so we made short work of it.

Congrats

Hell of a Texas trophy

Nicely done! 90 yards must have been quite a rush going on

Beautiful

Congrats. Now you need a bigger house/room.

Beautiful bull.

Hell of a bull. If I ever kill one that would be a trophy

Yes they are special.

Congrats thats a heck of a bull and mount

Beautiful bull & mount
Jealous as hell for sure!

congrats

I see this one everyday, never gets old.

All I can mutter out is WOW!

Very good looking bull. If he wasn't the biggest, I would love to see the pictures of the bigger ones. Never nice.

NIce!!!

AWESOME!!!

I want one! Congrats

Congrats Great bull, even if not the biggest.

On my West Texas e k it was also 105 degrees that day and it turned out to be the best tasting bull I have eaten.

If you get them cooled down quickly it's a non issue. It's all in the game care before it hits the grill.
Our primary meat at my house is Elk, kill one every year. We raise beef but they always get sold.

Awesome pics,congratulations

this, awesome

I also prefer elk to beef, or at least all but one of the ones I have killed. That rutted down bull was huge in body 347lbs meat yield but it was stronger tasting than any whitetail buck I have ever taken. They said he had 40 to 50 cows in his harem during the rut and that is a lot to keep up with in Central Montana mountains. He was gutted and propped open about 20 minutes after the shot and hanging in the shade of a shed within an hour and half of the shot in 30 degree temps for the high. Within 4 hours he was in the processors cooler hanging. So figured he got cooled quick enough.

Awesome! Bucket list hunt for me. Would love to get a native Texas free range bull

Very nice !

very nicely done

Very nice!

You'll need a bigger house for the next one

Heck of an animal, and that mount is awesome.

Heck of a bull. That's awesome!

Beautiful Bull and a freezer full of great meat, you can't beat that ! The mount is also great

If he wasn’t the biggest, I’d sure like to see the competition! Dang good elk most anyone would be happy to have.

SWEET!

That's just too awesome

Getting a free range native Texas elk like that is really special