JimmyD
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Well, the time has come to say that we got a bull. Actually, if Dale and I could shoot worth a $hit we would have had two bulls..... I ended up with a nice 5X5 that had one of his points broken off. I'll get Dale to post the pictures (go figure I work for a computer company, but don't know how to do any of that type of stuff).
We saw him from about a mile or so away and ended up closing the distance to about 400 yards whereby a furry of bullets put the fella out!!!!!
As usual we had our share of problems with the horses, but I didn't get bit or bucked off this year. We had 4, count 'em 4 horse wrecks over the course of 5 days. We were packing all our gear in and the darn horse decided he wanted to step off the trail and do a double back roll down the hill. I would have bet you my last dollar that the damn thing broke his back the way he landed, but after a few minutes he got up and was ready to go agin. The second wreck happened after we got blown off the mountain by 80 mph winds (our tent and camp blew down at 3 a.m. the day before the season started). This in and of itself was a T total pain in the A$$, but because all our tent stakes broke in half we couldn't stay up where we wanted so we headed back down the mountain. We were loading the critters back up to head to our back up location when the damn animal decided he wanted to do a back flip getting into the trailer. The third accident happened after we had shot the bull and were on our way back out of the canyon. The same horse sliped again, falling down the hill leaving me grabbing for a tree as we fell down the hill. The final wreck the next day. Dale and I were sitting there glassing a canyon and let all three horses graze on the side of the hill. The meadows up where we were hunting were unbelieveable. Anyways, the same damn horse laid down and rolled over on his back and ended up rolling down the hill. I'm just happy the other two horses we had had more sense than that one dude otherwise this could have been an interesting trip....
We saw him from about a mile or so away and ended up closing the distance to about 400 yards whereby a furry of bullets put the fella out!!!!!
As usual we had our share of problems with the horses, but I didn't get bit or bucked off this year. We had 4, count 'em 4 horse wrecks over the course of 5 days. We were packing all our gear in and the darn horse decided he wanted to step off the trail and do a double back roll down the hill. I would have bet you my last dollar that the damn thing broke his back the way he landed, but after a few minutes he got up and was ready to go agin. The second wreck happened after we got blown off the mountain by 80 mph winds (our tent and camp blew down at 3 a.m. the day before the season started). This in and of itself was a T total pain in the A$$, but because all our tent stakes broke in half we couldn't stay up where we wanted so we headed back down the mountain. We were loading the critters back up to head to our back up location when the damn animal decided he wanted to do a back flip getting into the trailer. The third accident happened after we had shot the bull and were on our way back out of the canyon. The same horse sliped again, falling down the hill leaving me grabbing for a tree as we fell down the hill. The final wreck the next day. Dale and I were sitting there glassing a canyon and let all three horses graze on the side of the hill. The meadows up where we were hunting were unbelieveable. Anyways, the same damn horse laid down and rolled over on his back and ended up rolling down the hill. I'm just happy the other two horses we had had more sense than that one dude otherwise this could have been an interesting trip....
