How it started

[FerretWYO]

Elknuts stories recently got me thinking about what got us hooked on this adrenaline rush that we love so much.  I started thinking about what got me to fall in love with the sport of traditional bow hunting. Is it the elk that run you over looking for a cow, the mountain lions that sneaks by?  I think back and it all comes to one place in time.  You see I had been hunting with my Dad for as long as I can remember.  I have seen him take several animals while I was young.  When I was 13(before I could hunt legally myself) Dad took me bear hunting.  Many times I had helped him pack bait and I had seen a lot of bears while doing that.  This time was going to be different.  Dad asked me if I wanted to go and video some bears.  I was so excited I was going to get to go and “hunt with Dad”.  
   When we packed bait that morning we also packed in another tree stand.  Dad picked a good tree for it and showed me how to safely get it hung up. We went back that afternoon and got set up and started waiting.  It was so amazing just sitting there.  I had a pine martin climb right up in my tree stand.  There were squirrels running everywhere and birds soaring above. Then nothing? Everything in the forest was quiet.  Soon Dad was motioning up behind us.  All of a sudden a bear was standing right under my feet.  I almost forgot I even had a video camera with me.  Dad motioned to start taking video and that if he got the chance he would take the bear.  When I started the camera the bear heard it I guess because it locked on to me for what seemed like forever.  I was doing everything I could to stay still. Finally it gave up and went to eating.  I was trying to video and keep watching Dad to see when he was going to shoot.  The bear was standing broadside with its head behind the barrel and the tree.  I heard Dads bow break the dead silence and I almost jumped out of the tree it surprised me so much. The bear took off like lightning.  After a short wait we got down and backed out.  After gathering a few friends we went and got Dads bear.  
   It was from then on that I was HOOKED.  Take a kid hunting they will never forget it.

[Shinken]

Thanks for sharin' Randy!

Great stuff and point-on for the recommendation to take children hunting!

Shoot straight, Shinken

[rastaman]

Cool stuff!  Thanks Randy!

[Chris Surtees]

   

[Earl Jeff]

How it started, She asked me what I thought her favorite Flower was. and I SAID Gold metal all purpose white ? that how the fight started.

[Butch Speer]

Randy,
Great story! Was grinning form ear to ear when you jumped.

[Mudd]

Great story! Thanks for sharing!
God bless,Mudd

ps: Earl Jeff's reminded me of this one:
A woman is looking in the bedroom mirror.
She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, "I feel Horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a
Compliment."
The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's darn near perfect.'
And then the fight started.....
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[FerretWYO]

Thanks guys. Butch you can tell in the cammera work I was a little jumpy.