Shoot or No Shot 2025, Episode #3

[WapitiTalk1]

OK, one more for you cats to consider....

Location: The Spud State
Hunt Pressure Status: Nobody’s up in your basin this week; woot!
Hunt: Partner Archery Elk Hunt
Camp Type: Backcountry Spike Camp
Tag: Archery; 3 PT or better bull.

SE Idaho, archery elk hunt, 15 September, 5:40 PM. You are the shooter in a breeding sequence calling setup. Your buddy is dead ahead of bullwinkle in the sparse pine about 30 yards, and has successfully called this fine wapiti in from your 3 o’clock, across the small opening, to a point where the bull stops and decides to advertise his bullhood a bit by abusing a small fir sapling. You know it's 30 yards (ranged it a few minutes ago) to the bent over pine that the elk has so rudely stopped on the other side of. It's the 5th day of your 10-day hunt and the light wind is blowing from right to left from where you are located. You're on your knees at full draw with good cover to your back, in the direction of the bottom yellow arrow.

Shoot or no shot here?

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Reminder that if you save the picture to your desktop and open in MS Paint, you'll be able to place a spot, X, or whatever on the critter before you save it back to a jpg and add the marked-up pic with your post.

[Elkhunttoo]

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My artistic skills aren’t as good as RJ’s but im shooting and aiming at the red

[Lefty]

Im going along with elkhunttoo
If that tree is closer to me or 1/2 I might aim slightly lower

[7mmfan]

My gut tells me to wait for him to let that tree go. Once it rebounds, it will be out of the way and I'll have one less thing to worry about. Then I'm hitting the red dot Elkhunttoo posted.

[>>>---WW---->]

I'd never pass a shot at an Imperial Bull. Slam dunk! Arrow will clearly arc over that branch.

[Tigger]

Me (text): Hey Dad, can you start the grill? We will have backstraps for supper. Gotta go, time to shoot.

[Swede]

I'm a shooter, not a waiter.

[RanchoSueno]

Hahaha I'm with swede

[Lefty]

Hahaha I'm with swede

Im not sure he is someone you want to hang with,,,, the guy hunts from a tree

[>>>---WW---->]

Hahaha I'm with swede

Im not sure he is someone you want to hang with,,,, the guy hunts from a tree

Rumor has it that Swede has a prehensile tail that he wraps around a tree limb so he can swing and get the angle of the dangle right for just about any shot!