O.K. I'm back!! OMG!, I had no idea this would be so popular. This was an amazing hunt and I can tell you , I am in good shape but it literally kicked my ars
. I put on so many miles up and down canyons just to check on certain wallows, bulls etc.. This is not a hunt for for the every day Joe let me tell ya.
Anyway , I do have to apologize to Archery288 (Jon) I was giving him and M_ray both updates to post and I had forgot about him after a few days, I completely spaced it, I had thought that he headed out to his elk hunt for some stupid reason . I knew he wasnt heading out till this weekend
. Sorry bout that Jon. I felt bad when I talked to you yesterday man.
Secondly I have to thank Bowsandhose (Travis) and hid father (Jerry) I think thats right , for letting me camp with them and share in one heck of an experiance with them. They are two classy people that I really enjoyed being around, It really made the hunt 100 times better than it was! We had some good times, good laughs, and good hunts!! I have to say, Travis aka Bowsandhose is an ANIMAL!! When he left me for the first pack of meat I thought I wouldnt see him till I got back to the truck at dark. I had to get the cape and head taken care of and on the pack so I could get it out with my trip to the truck. I tell ya, I was wrong! I fought that thing up the hill for 40 yards and got up ended twice by them damn horns
Next thing you know here comes Travis running down the hill with a sandwich and water
What a site that was. Actually it was more like sliding on his butt on down to me. He grabbed another load of meat and I tried again with the horns, again they were dragging the ground , I wanted to pack them out to the truck so bad , Im just not tall enough
Travis took them and showed me what kind of an animal this Fire Fighting machine really was
I didnt think we were going to get them horns through that alder brush (tag alder?). He just beared down gritted his teeth and took off like a shot. I couldnt believe he could get up the hill so fast with that load! Thank you Travis!!
Next I wanted to thank the crazy guys from Moscow Idaho for driving down and helping out! I couldnt believe they would come down at a drop of the hat like that! That was pretty danged awesome if you ask me! I couldnt believe it when I got to the top of the hell hole ridge here were these 2 yahoos with big huge smiles and water and a snack for me!! They just wanted to be part of such a great experiance!Man was I estatic for that!! I cant beleive after we got all the meat out and got back to camp and took more pictures and had the other camps come up and see what the camotion was all about. They didnt stay, they had a tailgate party to be at the next day!
Thanks again Michael and the other Travis! You guys saved me another trip into the hell hole!
Anyway, I have alot of people to thank for the help and info I have gotten. I could probably write 10 pages about that alone. I have to take a break for a bit and then I will recap the day before and the day of the kill and the score on the bull!........
