the way it was

[racowboy]

Sometimes I think of hunts gone by and something always pops into my mind. When I was about 20, about 30 years ago, I headed up the Lochsaw for a little elk hunting. Forded the river before daylight and hiked up a couple of miles in the rain. After hearing a couple bugles, I slipped into some black timber and found where the calls had came from. I found a 15 year old boy with an open sighted .30-30. His supplies were a little meager for the three day hunt he was 2 days into. He had part of a loaf of bread with a jar of peanut butter, a large piece of plastic in case backing up under a tree wasn't enough, and a double head axe all latched to a old military packboard with a lot of baleing twine. He was from a poor and honest familly who had set out for their winters meat. Seems dad had dropped the three teen age boys off on separate ridge lines a few miles above us and they were to take three days sidehilling down to the river, where dad would be driving up and down the highway untill hopefully finding all three. If they were successful, they would quarter and hang their elk, cut a trail out, return later with dad and stock to retreive the game prior to returning home to Kooskia, Idaho.
Nowadays I suppose that would be child abuse and mom would most likely bludgeon dad to death when he got home without the kids. The boys name was Terry and he was nothing but smiles to be where he was. And he killed an elk that day.

[BrutalAttack]

My dad did the same thing to me. Granted I had a little better equipment to do it with.

[tangozulu]

Hia Racoboy
Lots of memories coming back now. I tooremember when the only backpack food was Kraft dinner.
No matter how you cut it, those days are gone.

[Montana Bob]

Not to change the subject to much, but times are changing.. and are they for the better?
Everything we do nowdays has to be faster, save time and some how bebetter than the way it was.
You can't go and eat anywherewithout a super cheese, bacon topped imported beef on natural 25 grain bread, La Burgair.
I like just a hamburger.
I am going to sit back today and enjoy this view from my porch with a cup of joe
and hope that someone never decides to change it, because the daymight come when someone comes up with the idea of putting dye pellets in the sky to make the snow blue.[&:]

[ShatoDavis]

ORIGINAL: racowboy

His supplies were a little meager for the three day hunt he was 2 days into. He had part of a loaf of bread with a jar of peanut butter, a large piece of plastic in case backing up under a tree wasn't enough, and a double head axe all latched to a old military packboard with a lot of baleing twine.

Meager I'd say! I wouldn't make it to noon with that amount of supplies.[8D]