Hunt Of A Lifetime antler search 6/26

[lucky]

Hey folks,
The Hunt Of A Lifetime Foundation will be attempting again to locate the antlers from an elk that one of our kids shot last year in the late hunt. The short story is Troy was a young man who was suffering from cancer and he shot a nice bull, the shot was a little back and our HOAL volunteers and guides ended up looking for the bull a couple of days while Troy stayed back at camp due to him not feeling well. Troy's dad ended up deciding to take him home early from the hunt. Unfortunately Troy passed away within days of leaving camp. We are on a mission to find these antlers and get them back to his parents. We will be meeting at 8:00 am at highway 260 and the Southfork turnoff on Saturday June 26th. The turnoff to Southfork is between Greer and Springerville. We will have a sign in/sign out sheet for everyone to fill out and finish about 4:00 pm. Be sure to tell everyone to bring a lunch, water and good hiking shoes. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Below is a link to Stephanie Rainey's website and the story of Troy's hunt if you would like to see the full story.
http://www.raineyproductions.com/HOAL.html
Thank you,

Matt

 

[MNElkNut]

Best of luck to you on such a worthy undertaking!

 

[BrowningRage]

I know I would break down and cry regularly with each and every client if I was running this kind of operation... Very inspirational people, and service. Props to you guys for doing such a thing...


"Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!" 2 Ne. 28: 24

 

[lucky]

Good news, we searched all day Saturday up and down the mountain where we thought the bull would have went down. We all met back at the truck around 4 p.m. no one saw anything, as we were standing there licking our wounds Stephanie got a phone call from Tina Pattison who founded Hunt Of A Lifetime, she was frantic and said she just received a call from a man who said he was certain he had Troy's bull. Stephanie went by his house and her way back home. The man said that he bought them off a kid who said he found them in the area we were looking. He said when he saw them he knew they were Troy's and gave the kid money for them. He called Tina and said he wanted to see the antlers get back home, he said that he had a teenage son and hoped someone would do the same for him if he was in this situation.

Robin, Troy's mother was so excited, "she said she knew we would find them, I prayed you would. Now they can go on the wall where Troy wanted them to hang."

If I wasn't standing there for the whole event I would not have believed it possible, I really believe that everything happens for a reason and am thankful for all the hard work that people put forward to find Troy's antlers.

 

[ELKMAN]

AWESOME!

 

[txjp]

LAST EDITED ON Jul-01-10 AT 08:14AM (MST)[p]It's good to know there are some good people left to help the antlers get home.

 

[elk_horn]

Congrats and a big thanks for the gentleman that bought them and turned them in!

 

[JPhelps]

Congrats to Troy's family. I'm sure it will be something that will remind them of their son forever.

Thanks to the HOAL foundation for working so hard to find the horns.

I hope the guy that paid for these horns kills a monster this year as repayment. Not many people in this world would of did what he did.

 

[MNElkNut]

FANTASTIC! And to top it all off, what a great bull! Just a pretty rack. Thanks to all who helped out.

 

[Cahunter805]

Congrats on finding them. Im sure those antlers will be such a memory to many people and his family. What a great guy to buy them and turn them in to you. Makes you thankful there are still good people in this world.

 

[Craig]

Great story. Every time the parents look at that rack they will have great memories of their child. Big props to the guy that bought the rack and gave it back.

 

[ELKOHUNTER]

Wow, may God bless you all. There are still some good people out there!

("For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9")

 

[theox]

wow thats great, but to bad the kid didnt get to hold them in his hands.

 

[fatrooster]

I watched all three movies on the website and I can tell you that they all really touched my heart. Congratulations on the job you guys are doing for these kids. fatrooster.

 

[MsDestiny]

Fantastic!

The video brought tears to my eyes... a worthy cause.

Destiny

 

[Gator]

RE: Fantastic!

What a great story, with all the other crap going on in this world for people to banded together and get a thing like this done is outstanding.
A lot of love is in those horns.


"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".

 

[shedcrazy]

This story misted me up. I have a boy with cancer, as well. I know what this means to the family. God bless those who worked to find this rack and God bless the family that lost their son.

I'm sure everybody here knows that it's beyond antlers, in this case.

 

[shedcrazy]

hmmm, I don't see my post.

In any case, I'll just re-post that this story brought a tear to my eye. This is fantastic. What a wonderful group to come together for such a cause and to have it end with the "trophy" in the rightful hands.