They ensured that he was dead and then began to look over the impressive bull. He went about 35 yards from where I shot him and went down and never moved again.”Īfter waiting a few minutes later Nick and his hunting partner moved in on the downed bull. He stood there for about three or four seconds and then started moving off. When that happened, he picked his head up and looked over at the rocks to see what happened. “As soon as I shot him, the arrow went clean through him and hit the rock behind him.
BIGGEST BULL ELK EVER SHOT FULL
The bull stepped into the open at 35 yards and Nick came to full draw. Every time he would put his head down to rake, I would make some ground on him.”Īfter about 5 minutes of working closer to the bull, Franklin finally got a good look at the giant. “He (the bull elk) pushed all the cows away from him, came back around, and started raking a tree really hard. A lot of people try to judge a bull by his bugle, but you couldn’t on this one.”Īfter closing the gap on the bull, Nick left his hunting partner and started to sneak in on the bull trying to get a good look. It was not a hoarse bugle, but a real clean whistle. The bugle from this bull, this thing sounded like a 3×3 that was probably 3 years old. “We went right after him and really started trucking. In the following few quotes, we will let Nick tell his side of the story. At daylight, he heard an elk bugle about 3/4 of a mile away from his position and decided to try and make a play on the bull making all the noise. On the 6th day, Franklin opened the day looking over a water hole. Consequently, Nick spent the first 5 days of the hunt being worn down by “Grandpa” and other big bulls in the unit.
After that, he would focus on other trophy class bulls and try to harvest one of them. However, all through the scouting season, Franklin was never able to turn up the giant know as “Grandpa.” At that point, Nick decided when the hunt started he would hold out for the “Grandpa” bull for the first week of the hunt. The bull was rumored to be a giant with incredibly large antlers. As Nick began to spend time in the unit and learn the area he began to hear rumors about a bull called “Grandpa”. In the early summer, Franklin learned that he had drawn an archery elk permit for Unit 8 in his home state of Arizona. Back in 2003, Nick Franklin would get his chance. However, few are ever lucky enough to draw a permit and find that class of animal. Many hunters dream of taking record book animals.
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