Knockdown power does not exist.

That's our topic of the day today.

The single most spectacular one-shot drop I've ever seen on an animal myself

occurred at what was almost certainly the single most

important shot I've ever taken on big game.

It was, geez, almost a decade ago when I drew a big, I about said a big bull tag, a limited draw tag for Utah that I had been applying for all my life.

I was about 40 at the time and this felt like a long

time dream come true. It was really right and I will almost certainly never hold another

tag, elk tag of that quality in my life.

So I scouted throughout the summer, found two bulls that I really would be delighted to shoot

either one, right? But that area is real thick. It's hard to sit on a bull, like some

units, allow you to unglass him watches patterns and so forth.

Also, this bull was a nomad, the specific one I wanted.

He would, he traveled all summer.

Traditionally, the concept is that big old bull elk will find a little

highty hole with good shelter good feed good water and move as little as possible

throughout the summer because well hey that requires less energy expenditure, right?

When you get that old, you get lazy.

You don't want to do a lot of effort, a lot of traveling.

Well, this bull was different.

And we know that because various people, big game guides and whatnot, had trail

camera pictures of him that spanned a 15 mile reach of that mountain range over this summer and he didn't just make that

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