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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: JBR on December 02, 2009, 04:14:50 PM

Title: Missing elk hunter
Post by: JBR on December 02, 2009, 04:14:50 PM: Just saw this story online at Kiro....I hope they locate him healthy and happy with a big elk down tomorrow. Looks like he's got a camper on his truck, so hopefully he's just in temporarily stuck somewhere safe with no cell service.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/21786207/detail.html
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: robescc on December 02, 2009, 04:18:16 PM: I hope he is found safe and sound. I am sure he will is looking forward to driving that beautiful truck home with the heater on full blast.
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: popeshawnpaul on December 02, 2009, 04:19:03 PM: He's probably holed up in a honey hole with a bottle of Jack Daniels. At least that's what I would be doing. :dunno:
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: robescc on December 02, 2009, 06:57:15 PM: Yakima Herald just reported that the found him at 3:45 this afternoon. He was skining an animal when they found him :IBCOOL: I hope he had a camera with him so he can post the pics. :chuckle:
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Post by: Curly on December 02, 2009, 07:00:53 PM: Wow. That is terrific news. 8)
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Post by: Crunchy on December 02, 2009, 07:05:22 PM: Good man
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: Instinct on December 02, 2009, 07:15:43 PM: alright cant beat that.. lost in the woods wth a animal down. now thats an adventure if i say so for myself. glad he made it back safe and sound :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: Kowsrule30 on December 02, 2009, 07:16:19 PM: That's how I want to be found "missing".... :chuckle:
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Post by: Alaska316 on December 02, 2009, 09:50:54 PM: Thats a great out come. Glad the old boy is okay.
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: elk311 on December 03, 2009, 07:46:37 AM: Quote from: JBR on December 02, 2009, 04:14:50 PM
Just saw this story online at Kiro....I hope they locate him healthy and happy with a big elk down tomorrow. Looks like he's got a camper on his truck, so hopefully he's just in temporarily stuck somewhere safe with no cell service.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/21786207/detail.html

Perhaps one of the reasons for delay in finding Mr. Bates is that the road is incorrectly cited by KIRO as "Barbara Springs" road when it's really "Barber Springs" road.... hmmmm.... :rolleyes:

Glad he is o.k. !!!
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: TEX-X on December 03, 2009, 07:53:42 AM: i'm glad that they found him... apparently the link has been updated... that is one nice truck
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: JBR on December 03, 2009, 10:10:25 AM: Just as I had hoped... ;)
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: let.it.fly on December 03, 2009, 10:14:12 AM: good news... when i was in Missouri this year we had just got in from the stand and my uncles phone rang. it was the fire chief, there was a hunter missing. so we got dressed and headed out. we searched the property he was hunting from about 7 pm to 230 am. found nothing. the property was only about 600 acres, we had about 50 people looking. they resumed the search the next morning and unfortunately they found him face down with no apparent trauma. he was a 24 year old fire fighter from colorado. if memory serves me his name was Blake. sad situation that undoubtedly plays out many times each year around the united states. just glad that we found this one alive.
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: Curly on December 03, 2009, 10:24:45 AM: Quote from: JBR on December 03, 2009, 10:10:25 AM
Just as I had hoped... ;)

Yep, you called it. :tup:

That sure is a fine looking truck. When I read yesterday that it was a '67 ford, I pictured a POS that probably broke down somewhere. :P I sure was wrong....
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: robb92 on December 03, 2009, 10:56:59 AM: Thats good they found him, wonder if they helped carry the elk back to his truck for him.
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: elk311 on December 03, 2009, 11:44:06 AM: Just curious but I did a quick look through the quagmire that we call "hunting regs" and I don't see any elk seasons open in the Manashtash area... ? :dunno: GMU 340 Perhaps he harvested in an area that is open and I missed it... :dunno:
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: NRA4LIFE on December 03, 2009, 11:55:00 AM: 336 and 346 are open to archery right now.
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Post by: saylean on December 03, 2009, 11:57:48 AM: Glad to hear he's safe.
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Post by: chad s. on December 03, 2009, 12:02:04 PM: Barber springs is indeed in 340 Manastash. Hmmmm?
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: Kowsrule30 on December 03, 2009, 12:31:59 PM: Quote from: chad s. on December 03, 2009, 12:02:04 PM
Barber springs is indeed in 340 Manastash. Hmmmm?

Maybe he didn't want to be found.... :dunno:
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: NWBREW on December 03, 2009, 12:44:35 PM: Quote from: Kowsrule30 on December 02, 2009, 07:16:19 PM
That's how I want to be found "missing".... :chuckle:

Me too. :yeah: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: Schmalzfam on December 03, 2009, 12:47:16 PM: That's great news!! We can sure appreciate a happy ending these day! That should be blasted on the news to. I am so sad to hear of all the awful stories this AM...SO SAD:(

But, his news is happy and that is the best news in weeks:)
Title: Re: Missing elk hunter
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on December 03, 2009, 12:56:18 PM: Ok, reported missing Monday? Found gutting an animal Wednesday? I'm bettin that there was a miscommunication or that the Elk kill was for survival. I'm hoping that he was hunting in an open area and that he wasn't lost at all.

-Steve