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elkslayer54
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This year I met a great guy off MM. Whom can remain anomous if he chooses to, But my friend we will call him Bubba, Bubba e-mails me a couple of years back discussing an area posted on MM that I wanted to hunt, We e-mail back and fourth for a while then come the phone numbers, so I call him, What a great guy I thinking, Just off of a phone call or two. So when this years draws come about we discuss this area and both try to get a tag, as luck would have it, I missed my tag. But my friend bubba and his dad draw tags, This is Bubbas first Bull elk tag. Sweet! So I tell Bubba to send me a map and I will mark up all of my honey holes and send the map back to him. As I have smoked a few in this general area. So Bubba sends the map and I give away all of the best spots I can think of and send it back. Then Bubba calls me and asks if I could make the hunt with him. Now keep in mind I have never met Bubba and he might be a weird-o. So I am a little leary, Bubba sounds normal on a phone but you can never tell. He might have been a PETA life menber for all I know, So I discuss this with my wife and she asks about my life insurance policy, Not much support there. So by the time this hunt rolls around me and Bubba talk almost every day, antisapating the big day of his first elk hunt. I meet him in a public area so he can't hurt me right away. I am carrying a 357 he don't know about just yet. Bubba come to find out is a great guy. Loves to hunt, So I did not have to shoot him, LOL Seriously Bubba is a big 240 6'19" stud of a mountain biker and in shape. I am thinking oh Chit what have I got my self into. So we head to the mountain get camp set-up. and go get some wood and Bubba almost hast to whoop some folks in camp but his great demanor and his huge size diffused the awarkward moment quickly. As we are getting ready to cook dinner for the night a bull bugles right next to camp. Sweet. Bubba says no camp fire tonight with a tear in my eyes I said OK and froze all night. That was a sweet sound I think he might have bugled again but do to my teeth chattering I could not be sure. So bright and early the next morning, Bubba has an idea he says a friend saw a huge bull way over in a secluded draniage and wants to check it out. By the way a little piece of info I left out I had just had an MUA that is a manulipition under ansitisa (sp) I got knocked out cause I had thrown my back out and a chiorpractor had to fix it, So we head to said drainage and this long legged Bubba takes off, Bubbas walk is like me at a jog. I kid you not if we did not walk 15 miles we did not walk one. I was almost dead when we got back to camp just in time for the evening little six mile hike. I think Bubba is half big horn sheep. So the next night Bubba thinks the elk are still near camp. You gussed it NO FIRE. I could not tell if there was 40 bull elk bugling right next to the trailer due to my teeth banging togeather, lost two fillings. I was shaking so bad I think I swallowed them.
Bubba is the chef the coffee maker and the alarm clock on this adventure. I hear Bubba making coffee, I am thinking dam I am sore from the marathon we walked yesterday when I hear all kinds of not so very nice words and he askes me what time do you have. I hit the indiglow on the watch and I tell him it is 0145am, LOL he stomps to the stove truns off the coffee and back to bed till 0430am. LOL LOL The next morning I was so sore I ate a case of pain pills and 4 shots of wiskey to get the pain to get down to a just killing me level. So we are off to another hot spot and we walk a meger 7 miles that morning. I was thinking of just shooting myself at this point, Lordy I was sore. He saw lots of sign but due to the tears in my eyes from the muscle cramps I was having I did not see too many elk tracks. However that evening we only walked one mile from a road into a little funnel area where the elk wher crossing and right at dark we heard one bugle towards camp. So that night it was about a 4 mile four wheeler ride back to camp and I had to hold my cowboy hat in my hand so it would not blow off, and friend let me tell you I was cold when we got back to camp. Before Bubba could say no fire I had a 8 foot blaze. Haaaaaaaa warmth. How sweet it is. So about the time we (I) thaw out the bulls start to chime in and man did they light up the world. They came within 250yds of camp with a full grown fire, bugling all of the way. We hardly slept that night. I have to fly out the next morning so today is it for me. I wake up a 0100 and the elk are still going strong again at 0425 and I tell myself and Bubba I can't take it anymore I got to getup. So Bubba and I get up and stand there in the dark and listen to them. We make a plan to get them. and we take off. I will tell you the truth those elk had me so fired up I forgot about my whole body aching. We sneek up within 500yds of the heard and I tell bubba this is where I stay, go get em. Bubba sneaks down right at daylight, and I look across this valley I am on top of and I see the heard bull, 20 cows couple of little bulls, it looked like what Bubba would say as a primos video. It was owesome. and then Bubba
This story is mostly true, some of it made up not much, But due to this site I met a man and his dad that I will call a friend's for the rest of my life. I had the time of my life bubba and his dad are some of the greatest people on this earth, If I would have known this, I would have paid a little more attention to bubbas sister in school. LOL What a great way to make new friends.
Oh yeah Bubba sneaked down to the herd and smoked a great 340" 7x7 with a smoke poll. Congrats my friend.
Bubba is the chef the coffee maker and the alarm clock on this adventure. I hear Bubba making coffee, I am thinking dam I am sore from the marathon we walked yesterday when I hear all kinds of not so very nice words and he askes me what time do you have. I hit the indiglow on the watch and I tell him it is 0145am, LOL he stomps to the stove truns off the coffee and back to bed till 0430am. LOL LOL The next morning I was so sore I ate a case of pain pills and 4 shots of wiskey to get the pain to get down to a just killing me level. So we are off to another hot spot and we walk a meger 7 miles that morning. I was thinking of just shooting myself at this point, Lordy I was sore. He saw lots of sign but due to the tears in my eyes from the muscle cramps I was having I did not see too many elk tracks. However that evening we only walked one mile from a road into a little funnel area where the elk wher crossing and right at dark we heard one bugle towards camp. So that night it was about a 4 mile four wheeler ride back to camp and I had to hold my cowboy hat in my hand so it would not blow off, and friend let me tell you I was cold when we got back to camp. Before Bubba could say no fire I had a 8 foot blaze. Haaaaaaaa warmth. How sweet it is. So about the time we (I) thaw out the bulls start to chime in and man did they light up the world. They came within 250yds of camp with a full grown fire, bugling all of the way. We hardly slept that night. I have to fly out the next morning so today is it for me. I wake up a 0100 and the elk are still going strong again at 0425 and I tell myself and Bubba I can't take it anymore I got to getup. So Bubba and I get up and stand there in the dark and listen to them. We make a plan to get them. and we take off. I will tell you the truth those elk had me so fired up I forgot about my whole body aching. We sneek up within 500yds of the heard and I tell bubba this is where I stay, go get em. Bubba sneaks down right at daylight, and I look across this valley I am on top of and I see the heard bull, 20 cows couple of little bulls, it looked like what Bubba would say as a primos video. It was owesome. and then Bubba
This story is mostly true, some of it made up not much, But due to this site I met a man and his dad that I will call a friend's for the rest of my life. I had the time of my life bubba and his dad are some of the greatest people on this earth, If I would have known this, I would have paid a little more attention to bubbas sister in school. LOL What a great way to make new friends.
Oh yeah Bubba sneaked down to the herd and smoked a great 340" 7x7 with a smoke poll. Congrats my friend.
