“This is as close as were gonna get” muttered an out of
breath Jamie Mace while P.T. Carter nodded in agreement.
The two had been sneaking down a steep hill with Larry Hurd to reach a
rim that would allow them to look across a canyon at a bull elk they have been
hoping to get closer to for the past couple hours.
Jamie and Larry had been hunting for a couple days when
Jamie gave P.T. a call to see if he wanted to come out and hunt with them for a
day. True to P.T.’s nature, he wasn’t
going to pass up an opportunity to get out and hunt, especially when invited by
good friend Jamie Mace. P.T. agreed to
meet them in an area they had been hunting the past couple days, but before
P.T. arrived Jamie already had a good bull located. When P.T. pulled up, Jamie and Larry were
packed up and ready to start moving.
Once the three finally arrived at the rim they were shooting
for, Larry immediately began to set up for a shot. Jamie set up next to Larry to watch the shot
through his binoculars while P.T. broke out the video camera. The bull was across the canyon feeding in and
out of the brush, when he finally presented a shot. Larry took a deep breath and touched off a
shot. One moment the bull was in P.T.’s
view finder, the next moment the view finder was filled with dust that blew
every direction kicked up from the muzzle break of Larry’s
rifle. When the dust finally started to
clear, there was no bull in sight. After
a couple of agonizing seconds, the bunch realized the bull had dropped in his
tracks. The celebration began. Larry was on his feet with one of the biggest
grins of his life while the three giggled and cheered about the events and the
big bull that was on the ground across the canyon from them.
This is where the bull showed just how rough and tough elk
really are…
“Oh, @#$%, he’s up looking at us!” were the words that Jamie
shot out of his mouth to put a quick end to a good time. Larry immediately got back down and behind
his gun while Jamie and P.T. started the back seat coaching. “Calm down”, “Take a deep breath and
squeeze”, “Take your time”, were a few words of wisdom coming from the
two.
Now it’s hard enough to get set up, gain your composure and
make a good shot when you finally get within range of an animal, but now Larry
has to do it all over again after initially believing the job was done all the while
having to postpone the celebration. There
is a little more panic in a situation when an animal that has been hit stands
up and has a chance to get away. But,
you gotta hand it to Larry, he pulled it off without a hitch. Shot #2 left the rifle and the bull tipped
over backwards while Jamie hollered “that’s the one!”
The celebration began again, but this time it went on while
six eyes were afraid to leave the spot where the bull laid. After a short time, the three were convinced
that Larry had delivered the final TKO, and the trek across the canyon began.
The bull turned out to be every bit as big as they thought,
and is Larry’s biggest bull to date.
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