Anatomy of a hunt
06-24-2017, 10:48 AM
#32
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Opelousas,La
Posts: 131
Great story
I really enjoyed your post. It brought back many great memories of the past 60 years chasing elk, deer and antelope out west. Like you, it wasn't a numbers game for me,
it was the times spent with friends and family sharing the sights and sounds of our wonderful western states. It took me 17 years before I harvested a really nice bull. My first hunt was in 1962 and my last was in 2000, although I lived in Colorado from 2000 to 2007, but a bad knee and too many last second, very poorly prepared out of state hunters running the woods kept me out of the woods
A jeep has solved my knee problem and in early 2000 I swapped out my Ruger #1 300WM for a 50 cal Knight LRH and now spend about 30 days a year on the Edwards Plateau in West Texas enjoying the scenery and reducing the hog population and removing a few cull bucks.
Couldn't help noticing you were wearing sneakers in some of your hunt pictures. Take it from an beat up 80 year old that a top notch pair of mountain boots will make the rest of your hunts far more comfortable. Good hunting.
it was the times spent with friends and family sharing the sights and sounds of our wonderful western states. It took me 17 years before I harvested a really nice bull. My first hunt was in 1962 and my last was in 2000, although I lived in Colorado from 2000 to 2007, but a bad knee and too many last second, very poorly prepared out of state hunters running the woods kept me out of the woods
A jeep has solved my knee problem and in early 2000 I swapped out my Ruger #1 300WM for a 50 cal Knight LRH and now spend about 30 days a year on the Edwards Plateau in West Texas enjoying the scenery and reducing the hog population and removing a few cull bucks.
Couldn't help noticing you were wearing sneakers in some of your hunt pictures. Take it from an beat up 80 year old that a top notch pair of mountain boots will make the rest of your hunts far more comfortable. Good hunting.
