The new World Record for # of elk loaded whole in the bed of a pickup in Wyoming without the aid of any other device and all the elk are whole and it is a Ford pickup and it has a flat bed and it is a 4 door and a 6.0 L diesel and the owner has the initials JB.

Well you get the picture, we got three whole elk in the back of my truck and I thought it was kind of cool.

Frank dropped the first at 520yds and then I got one at 600yds and then Scott played cleanup at 854yds. Fun day.

good lord lol. good job!

whats the deal with splitting the sternum? cows so wernt worried about it, or just easier to deal with in general

Where the world is the end of that tastie greif? Congrats

That may be a record for Wyoming, but the world, Hardly. Montana near a reservation can easily get 6 into a Ford Pinto and not a single elk was shot with anything more than a 22 Magnum...

My guess we got the rascel with a magnum hence no hind in pictickular picks!grin

That is a cool picture - looks like a couple of happy campers!
Lots of good eats there - congrats!!

I'm not sure I'm ever going to gut another critter in my life. Or at least elk and moose. Tried the gutless method twice in December on two bull moose.

We had the first moose in the truck in 1.25 hrs (short calf sled ride).

Couple days later, the closest we could get the truck to the bull was about 500yds. Just skin, cut the legs off, trim off the backstraps, tenderloin, brisket, and any rib or neck meat possible. So 4 legs, a bag of meat, and the head in the 2 calf sleds and out in one trip. Sweet! May use on deer shot in coulees too. We'll see.

One needs to put his 4-wheeler in first. That pretty well consumes a short box. Then start stacking the elk.

What is funny is those are grain finished elk. Living on malt barley in the field for over a month before they made a big mistake.

I have not eaten any yet but I do have high hopes and then some.

That cow looks awful big-must be a '79 Toyota!

Nice shootin' John

I watched my guide skin my elk, quarter it, take out the loins and backstraps all in a matter of 1/2 hour or so. He never touched the innards. When I saw what was left, I decided I would never gut an animal again. Not worth the trouble for a few pieces of rib bone meat.

John,

We got our cow elk in the high country of Unit 1 in Az. The elk were eating barley and wheat that was seeded after the Wallow fire two years ago. They were packing the most fat I had ever seen and the meat is the best elk I have ever had! You should have some fine table fare with your grain finished elk.

ROTFLMFAO

We did that many times with a 4 wheeler or snowmobile...

Sometime you must try loading 2 bulls into a International Travelall, whole...

You're rotten, I snorked Coffee up my nose on that one.

Hunt success photos are great, Congrats Guys!

What's the big idea of using the winch? Figgered you fellas could just hoist them in yourselves?

Thx for sharing John, looks like fun was had by all. Well maybe not by the elks...grin

If I can find a pic of my old Toy pickup with my Honda Horse (atv) and two elk in the back I'll scan and put it up. Things were a skosh tight.

Creative elk packing...


Dober

Where's that picture of the elk piled in an old Plymouth?

How about solo, with no winch or come-along? My back still hurts.....grin!

I don't need no stinking truck. I use this to get an elk out.

Trucks?

LOL..That's it. I love it. That should give the tree huggers a heart attack.

Nice picture of a knife.

Nice picture of dirty meat.

At least I have field pictures.....course with all of your powerful words of wisdom, you don't need any.

You're right butthole. Showing off is not my style.

That's because you have nothing to show....

Scenar..

his field pictures would be the meat counter at the local supermarket.

more his speed and "clean meat"

Same old forum bull. I have nothing to prove to any of you.

I hunt for me. Not you guys. You all want to sit around jerking each other off with pictures. Good for you. Dead animals is nothing new to look at.

Hey Mauser, help me out here, you hunt for yourself, you don't post pics because dead animals is nothing new to look at, and when folks do you feel they are just showing off.
WTF - why even bother posting or being on this "Hunting" website then??? Why not try a gardening forum instead.
I tend to enjoy seeing others pictures, I'll freely admit I don't hunt near as much as I wish I could, so seeing others getting to hunt and being successful at it is kinda nice IMHO.

Nothing wrong with posting pictures until you challenge me to do it. It goes against how I was brought up. I come to the forum for other reason. I talk about hunting style. I've never talked about an actual kill. I didn't think I had to to post here?

What's lame is judging someone you've never met.

Playground names....now that's lame.

talk about the pot calling the kettle black !

WTG JB those are some nice ones.

Keep posting those pics scenarshooter

You mean you're not a butthole? How can I tell?

The knife was a joke.

I, for one, really enjoy your posts Pat. Please keep posting with the pictures. Like they say, a picture is worth a 1000 words. E

I think we have a winner.

Gutless is the way to go if the critter needs quartered, though I prefer not to trim dried meat all the way around the backstraps and such. If I can get the critter out whole (rare for me) I much prefer to just gut it old style.

Good going Mr. Burns...the only elk I killed this year was almost 6 miles from the closest road access up on Commissary Ridge. I'm kinda jealous.

I've posted these before but this is from 2005
2 bulls and a cow


3 bulls from opening morning 2005. Two of these bulls are the two bulls in the picture above

In the early 70's we got 8 guys in an Opal cadet.

There were 3 quartered bulls, 5 hunters and all the gear in that van when we pulled out of there.

Good times!

What're you, a clown? I ran a popsicle stick through my eyelid in the back of an Opel in the '70s.

Sweet Chevy's Shrapnel.Like that old brown one.Looks like a 76?
Why the switch to Dodge?

Good job

A lot of good eating in 2013

Pretty good John...a lot of good eating in that truck load. Bet it raised a few eyebrows if you drove through town that way.

Results from a 2011 MT Driveby Shooting...

Nice Brad.Is that you.Tough to tell without your stash.

Tis' me... ditched the goatee 5 years ago.

Time flies when your having fun.Again nice elk

I was talking everything but buying trucks to the Dodge dealer in Livingston the fall of 2008 after the whole economy tanked. I had a 2005 GMC at the time, a 3/4 ton V-8. They told me that now was the best time ever to buy a truck and told me to take the 2008 Bighorn Edition, crew cab, Cummins for a test drive. The sticker on it was $45,000.00. I drove it and told them it was still too much money at a discounted price of $33,000.00. After some bartering and throwing out some unrealistic numbers, they sold it to me for $29,000.00 I couldn't pass up a diesel pickup for $29,000.00, so I am now driving that same Dodge and it books for almost as much now as I paid for it over 4 years ago...

Sure does!

Thanks... and hope all's well in your camp.

Congratulations john!!!!
It may not be a world record but it beats my record of two in the back of a 72 Jeep Pickup. Both big fat cows, one taken in the center of the county road and the other taken on the far side of a 40 acre field. Backed right up to both of them and had hung up and skinned in my dads shop by 10am. Very near Elgin Oregon. When I can't remember.
The winch makes it almost easy. !!!!

We killed a couple cows once, and crammed them in the back of an old Toyota Land Cruiser. The hill we had to climb out was so steep the front end started hopping off the ground. We ended up with both strapped across the hood for weight.
Had pix somewhere, but that was 37 years ago.

Uhmmmm.....Any way I could tag along with one of you guys sometime?

I don't know if I have ever used the winch on my 4 wheeler for anything but loading dead animals...

Meat cleans up. Warm spoiled meat never gets better. I take my elk apart ASAP. They fit into four backpacks.

I have found that pictures show the difference between people that shoot game and those that shoot their mouth off...

Now that's Gods Country. Aren't there both mule deer and whitetail together there? Oregon's got a few whitetail and seems I saw a muley doe running with whitetail fawns in the fields going up the grade out of Elgin. Is that possible?

You're entitled to your opinion, and the thousands of pictures you show every time you post. Even if they are 20 years old.

Like I said. Some like to show off, and some don't. Lots of guys don't show pictures on this and many other forums. However, you make up for everybody who doesn't.

Lots of pictures in the family album. I see no need to show them to the world like you do.

You seem to think you can say anything you want to someone, because they don't do like you do. It doesn't work that way.

there's only one guy on this forum who knows me personally, and he's already posted about seeing my kills. Too bad if it's not good enough for you. I could care less.

Thank you, I wasn't sure you approved...

Posting pictures is fine, and I enjoy seeing them like anybody else.

Just don't try and shove them down someones throat if they don't do the same thing.

Yup!

Speaking of shooting their mouth off. Hi Loco.

Most certainly does!!!!!!! You got hunters and you got internet blowhards!!!!!

Then you have blowhards that show pictures.

You guys are clueless.

Pictures,IMO prove that they're out hunting and killing critters.....not sitting on the internet making believe they're killing critters.

Of course you're never wrong about anything eh?

How much money would you like to put on your assumption?

I'm never wrong?????? Man you just like too argue with anyone dont you?

I hate to argue, but I do respond to being insulted.

You must get insulted a lot.....

No, just from the same no it all group.

I hate to derail this thread but I do want to point out I added enough dumb qualifiers to my original post that my WORLD RECORD is still intact.

Lots of great pictures, guys.

Not a world record but it turned a few heads.


I was going to try this but was told it was not a good Idea.

pictures are nice and all, but certainly not something to set the stone IMO. Pictures are so the eye can see the memory, most of my pictures are stored in my head. I can still see that cedar tree lighting up bright orange when i shot a mule deer with my flintlock.

Ive seen some of the pics of mausers last September when i went hunting by him. We did some scouting together as well.

real nice elk in here, some look like a meat market. You all should come hunt down here if you want a real challenge because it seems some of you got it to easy!

Hey Mauser, take a deep breath and just keep chuggin' along man.

You guys with the truckloads of elk are blowing my mind! Unreal. I pack mine in pieces, never have been near a road when I got one. I did get one 4 point, 2 guys, and all our gear on a Honda 300 ATV once. Can you picture a low-rider? Pre-digital days or I'd post up and show off.

Thanks. I'm trying.

I have to cut mine up. I have a Jeep Wrangler short wheelbase. No way to fit a whole animal in it. Not that I could move it around alone anyway. I get a hernia just trying to roll them over.

congrats John ! hope to see ya Mid April again up North

So you are actually hunting them in the wilderness??
That's more impressive than elk in a truck bed.

Elk in truck beds (much like mounts, or 'shooting game') don't mean much until you know the story.
A good many won't admit that they are hunting ranches.
Even if they are not, you gotta wonder how much hunting is involved anytime you can get a truck to it.

I'll confess to hunting a ranch once.
It was blast and I had a great time but not any great hunting achievement on my part, easy compared to the Natl Forest.



Skidded a whole cow down from above timberline a couple years ago in one piece. Two of us racing to drag it across the crusted froze snow before the sun hit. Made it to the road before the sun. I don't get many out like that.

Thanks for the reponse Shrapnel.Awesome deal without a doubt.Nice looking rig your Ram.

It's all good Brad.Thx for asking.Happy New Year to you and yours

We had three cows quartered in the back of a first generation Tacoma double cab a few weeks ago. Shoulda taken a pic I suppose. Gettin 12 quarters and loose meat to the truck took 10 hours.

You clowns that whine about how hard it is to kill elk crack me TF up.

Colorado is by far the easiest place i've hunted to go kill an elk if you're hunting general season.So when i see someone like mowser telling us how hard it is i pretty much discredit anything he has to say.Wow, you hunt NF! jeez i bet guys that are posting pics have never done that.

You have to remember, you guys arent always talking to some wet behind the ears first timer, regardless of "how old they are".

Colorado has a 20% success rate for elk. Doesn't sound that easy to me great white hunter.

I don't remember saying it was hard either? You want to point me to that post?

I'm not surprised by the success rate, 80% of hunters are too damn lazy to kill anything.

Point you to a post? You are constantly making elk out to be some kind of critter akin to a unicorn.

I'm sure 80% of the elk hunters would agree with that, but I still don't remember saying elk hunting is hard.

The only hard part for me is getting up the mountains at my age. Elk has nothing to do with that.

I might have said still hunting can be harder than spot and stalk, or taking long shots, but again. It has nothing to do with elk.

I think you've misunderstood what i've said.

Here's my addition for elk in vehicles.. not whole though, head, front shoulder and loins.. Lee Metcalf Wilderness, Monument area, '94. I was driving US 191 so much that year I bought an old beater Civic for $200. Sold it for $250 in the Crystal Bar that winter.


Couple years later I was showing photos of an elk I arrowed to a friend that worked in the old Bob Wards on main. I was also telling him how excited I was that my Dad had drawn a late season Gardiner bull elk permit that year. A short, bearded, round featured dude bellied his way into the conversation had a fit about how unethical it was to shoot a bull on such a permit, and that me showing my elk photos.. was "all that's bad in hunting these days." This same guy posts pictures all over this forum these days, with plenty of elk taken on ichabod crane's ranch, which would be about as challenging to hunt as the heart of the park during September. Always wonder if that guy's bipolar or schizophrenic.

Rosco, I hate to confuse you with facts but in most states the average success rate for an elk hunter, is an elk every 6 or 7 years. If you have access to private land, live in an area where elk are prevelant or where you can watch and pattern them all year long, you have a great advantage. Most of us don't. I traveled a total of 3400 miles this year, elk hunting, in 4 states. Sure I kill elk but I have the time and a fairly high skill set (this was my 54th season) which helps me be successful. Elk can be easy to kill but for most on "fair chase", do it your self hunts, they can be a challenge. While you may be a skilled hunter your post shows that you are "wet behind the ears" when dealing with people on a public forum.

Fireball2

You asked me earlier about Whitetails near elgin. Our cow hunt was prior to any Whitetails moving into that country. I am sure they are their now, its good country for them. I now hunt over in the Mt Emily unit. Steep and ugly, like you, most of my elk have come out on my back, but there have been a few lucky ones (for me).

You're the only guy I've ever known who's hunting boots were worth more than his vehicle.....grin!

Agreed.

To quote the surly Dave Hester - YUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPP!

+2

Whatever guys. Think what you want.

I know the truth, and so do those who know me.

Up here moose hunters that go with this tool use vegetable oil for bar oil and that saw is only used for meat. Now days folks are moving to battery powered reciprecating saws. Some carry two or three batteries or use a charger and inverter powered off their ATV or genny.

If I get a Delta bison tag I'll be winching into a trailer, so this is a helpful thread.

Speakin' of which, I would have gladly accepted the challenge on this guy last Sept. I think even I could have sealed the deal at the south end of Hayden Valley.


Funny thing, I think I was the only one who saw the bull across the river as everybody else was mesmerized by this ky-o-tee.

It's the only way to go, especially with large animals and if you know you have to pack them anyway. Just don't forget to take out the tenderloins!!

This is a classic photo taken up near Roundup MT..
Redneck Central of Montana!

+1. I've thrown a couple small TX whitetails in the back of a Ford Escort, but that's classic!

Great photos guys! Thanks for sharing.

Eric

Classic! Love it!

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In Yellowstone those ky-o-tees are called wolves 50% of the time.