RE: ELK close encounter, very close
A friend of mine hunted Wyoming for years and could never get a good place or enough time off so hadn't put one in the freezer. He then had an accident that left his right eye with only periphereal vision so he was despondent and decided to sell all his guns. I talked him into keeping them and promised him that we would go Elk Hunting that fall. He always told me the secret was to 'rent horses, pack in about 10 miles, and hunt all week". So I rented horses and got all the gear ready. We drove out to the jump off site around 4:00 AM in the morning. I began to unload the horses, fired up the chain saw and dropped two lodge poles and made the travois. About the time I got the thing made and began to load it I walked around the truck to pick up some gear and right beside the truck was a 6 looking at himself in the rear view mirror. funniest thing I had ever seen-he would look at the mirror and then let out such a fuss and then go back and look again. My buddy was sleeping in the front seat of the truck and it was almost new shorts time for him the first time the bull bellowed. He popped up and the bull never paid him a bit of attention but just kept after the bull in the mirror. Finally he rammed the mirror and broke not only the mirror but the side window of the truck as well. When the mirror hit the ground he looked down at it like he had just vanquished a big bad enemy and then quickly and quietly retreated to the woods. We laughed so hard we about died!!