Join legendary guide, John McClendon, along with his family and friends as they share over two decades of Monster Bulls with you! You may have seen some of these bulls on our previous productions, but you haven’t seen them all together on one DVD. Get ready for back to back GIANT BULLS; we’re talking over twenty years of nothing but the best!

You will see more Monster Bulls on this DVD than any other DVD ever produced! Watch these bulls from early Fall (velvet bulls) into mid Fall when the bulls are hard horned and in the rut. You will see incredible footage of elk rutting, wallowing, fighting and getting up close and personal, screaming in your face.

Witness TEN ARCHERY HUNTS highlighted by the current WORLD RECORD P&Y Typical bull, 432 3/8 GROSS AND 412 5/8 NET, harvested by Shawn Patterson. You will also see the #2, #5, #6 and #11 RANKED P&Y bulls, (ranking of these bulls are the rank they placed at the time of harvest).

2009 was tough on us, on the archery elk hunt. Both Mike and Chris had great tags and hunted the whole two weeks. Chris shot a nice bull with his Mathews Swtichback XT and Shuttle T-Lock broadheads, and did it on the second to the last day of the hunt. Where we hunted there was not a lot of intense rutting, more like the bulls had a relaxed hunt. We videoed only one broken bull by the end of the hunt. Mike waited and waited, and tried to get on one really good 7×7 bull. We saw him, took some video of him at a distance but never got close enough for a shot. We did get some great video of bulls, mostly on water, some of those hunting shots for our DVDs are going to have to be Mike’s trophy this year.

[qos-flp]

elk-on-tank-2

[/qos-flp]

Mike Whelan, 7-2009

Even though we have begun to get a little rain, it is still hotter than hell as I sit here at home in Arizona. Yesterday it was 105 degrees at three in the afternoon. It helps a little bit to look at some of the elk video we took almost three weeks ago on our first scouting trips for archery elk. It was a bit cooler and we got some spotty rain while we were scouting at a higher elevation in elk country. A good friend of mine Mike Miller and his brother Chris somehow managed to draw archery elk tags in one of the best elk units in Arizona. So we have started our scouting, hoping to find a good bull or two. This time of the year, along with glassing, you have to check waters. Traditionally we have looked for tracks around these waters, many of which are trick tanks. For those of you who are not familiar with trick tanks they are constructed water catchments, built by the Game and Fish Department to supply water to game and non-game animals when water is scarce or far from feed sources. Now days more and more hunters are using trail cameras to scout these waters. This year, I don’t think we went to one trick tank that did not have one or more cameras on it. We also use cameras and they do work remarkably well but I personally still like to look for tracks, sit the waters and glass the areas, to actually see what bulls are there. So far we have seen a couple hundred elk, filmed about forty bulls, saw one really good bull ( no footage) and found tracks of three other bulls that we would really like to see. For us that is a pretty good start for our 2009 archery elk hunts.

[qos-flp]preview-elk-vel-bulls-8-9-09

[/qos-flp]

Elk Videos, Bull Elk and Bugling

As we finish up the editing on our new elk hunting video/DVD, we some times put together short clips. This time we were looking at bulls and how there bugles can be so similar at times and at others so different. Take a look and a listen.

elk-bugles-abgotg-nsl-2-8-09