Thanks guys , yes I cant express what a joy it was to spend this time together , yes they grow fast , I still cant believe my oldest ( joey ) is 16. Seems like just the other day I was carrying him in a backpack at shoots.
Arrow in the tree is the one I pulled from the chest of the bull , I didnt want to loose it while doing all the skinning and packing. Actually while I was tracking the bull it was the first thing I saw sticking out of a big brown mound (elk) in the dense huckleberry brush,white feathers.
Funny , I spent half my life trying to get a big bull and could never do it , finally get to a point in my life I realized it didnt matter and I got one. Still does not compare to the joy I felt hunting with my family in the mountains of Idaho.
The bow is an old friend of mine named lightning , osage sinew takedown. arrow was a fir selfnocked with ebony footing tipped with a razor sharp Magnus 160 grain.
Like I said earlier , you should have seen the excitement from Joey after getting to within 50 yards of a bull thrashing in a wallow . He said he tried the Jedi mind trick to get the elk to come closer but found that wont work on elk.
Charlie, someday.
Topic: Hunting with the family (Read 4333 times)
