Elknut1 & Elkcrazy8 no I didn't go last year, our construction business with my brothers leaves little time, we are very busy that time of year. Any free time that my wife and I have had durning the last 5 summers were devoted to teaching bowhunters education. But now with two the kids and all, it takes too much time plus the cost of a babysitter. So this year and for the next few years until the kids are old enough and hopefully our business will be bigger and I will have a some more free time. We are giving up teaching bowhunter ed, I will miss it but at the same time I want to attend 3-D shoots and the jamboree, I too have not attended one either. I want to do things like that, where we can have fun, but include the family too! This year I am for sure, making time to go to the 2005 jamboree in Stanley, but I don't know the date of when it is? Another passion I have and want to pursue (sp?), is compeating in more elk calling contests. I know that sounding like the biggest bull in the woods is stupid when hunting, there are exceptions to this rule but they are very few. But at a calling contest it is a kick in the butt to sound big. The last contest I compeated at, last spring in SLC they (judges) wanted to hear every elk sound you could make. It was not just who could sound the biggest. There was one competitor who was even snorting/breathing. Like a bull does sometimes between bugles. I have heard bulls do that many times but yet I have never tried to simulate it when hunting. With this years rifle hunt I was never in a opprtunity to try it, but I bet it will work great, to help bring a bull in the last few needed yards when bowhunting. Anyway for me its fun and a learning experience, and I have made some good friends as well. Elknut I will give you a call this next week monday or tuesday in the evening, and I look foward to talking to you. (big grin)
Elkcrazy8 I hope to meet you as well, at the jamboree. If you have any info on 2005 please share.
Thanks idahoelkinstructor