My brother Kent and I were in Idaho on our horses at the end of the day (after a long walk down a ridge that took all morning/afternoon) riding to check on some evening clear cuts. When we got to the end of one cut, the lead horse in our group had his ears go straight forward.  We stopped and sure enough a lead cow walked/trotted across the road about 80 yards in front of us, then another, then another and another (about 15-18 cows/calves), a raghorn and then that was it.  By that time, were off our horses and I was sitting down on the road with my rifle rested on my knees, getting a bead on each animal, waiting for one more bull.  I knew if there was one, he’d be trailing the herd.  Sure enough, he stepped out last, onto the road before moving down to the bottom of the cut towards our right.  I focused down on him, fired it off and put one behind the shoulder.  Kent had a shot on him as well before mine, but had put his safety back on after he saw the raghorn bull.  You could hear the hit, but you’re never quite sure.  Kent and I sprinted down to where we could look over the bank and by that time, sure enough, he was rolling down the hill and stopped against a tree stump about 50 yards down.  I clipped him about three ribs back, took out the top of his heart and took out a lung. 

 We quarted him and dressed him in about 2hrs, left everything on the hillside with some shirts so the wolves wouldn’t mess with the meat and came back the next day with horses to pack him out.

 Needless to say, Kent and I were pretty excited.  I think you could hear our screams 4 canyons away.  Great moment.

Otto 

This Ram was shot at about 70 Yards with a 25-06,  He is 11 1/2 years old and green scored 194 7/8″ .   He was killed by Mark Dickhaut in unit 680,  Missouri River Breaks, MT.

This buck was claimed to be killed in the Wildcat Hills area.  It scored 332 with 41 points, a 43 inch spread with 35 inch main beams and 7.5 bases.  New Nebraska state record!  Sorry picture quality is a little rough.

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Here is a video that i got in an email of a rutting bull elk that can’t seem to find anyone who wants fight him.

This wolf was found just out of Edson , Alberta ..  Edson is just east of where
many of our Yellowstone wolves came  ( not sure what ‘found’ means.)

Hi…  I live in Buck lake Alberta Canada…. 20 min from Drayton Valley where the big wolf was shot… I found more photos of it and its said to weighed 197 pounds… The hunters were said to been baiting bear and the wolf chased off a large bear… we had a malamute husky that was this big.. as big as this wolf… the tracks are from a wolf that been eating our cows 2 or 3 a week… I’m sure if we fed our husky a large calf every couple days he would of been larger than the wolf…

remember the camera angle can make things look bigger… like a hunter sitting behind a elk… makes the elk look bigger… believe it or not my brother who weighed 190 pounds grabbed my cousin who weighed 250 pounds and bench pressed him off the ceiling, he worked the service rigs… any man can easily lift a 200 pound wolf like these men are… 

I’ve seen the wolfs twice that have been taking down the cows and they look large to me… wolf hunter are welcome… happy hunting