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The_Wraith
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Sitting there in my chair and eating my dinner, mumbleing to myself that this elk hunt is just like all the others, to many hunters, to much walking and not enough elk. Yup, just like all the others, that is it was like all the others till the headlights pulled off the main road and into my camp. That's when everything changed, forever.
As I sat there and watched the lights getting closer I couldn't help but laugh because one light was bouncing all over the place, it must have been held together by zip ties and duct tape and there were so many squeaks and creaks it sounded like it was ready to come apart, kentucky plates complimented the rig. When it finally pulled up out jumps this kid, maybe 18 or so and he walks right up and introduces himself, his name was Jim.
"Hey buddy, how ya doin'?" I asked
"Well sir" he said in his Kentucky drawl "I was hoping that maybe you could help me, I've already been to half a dozen camps but no one yet has been able to help me with my dilemma."
"Hmmm, lets hear your issue and then we'll go from there"
"See, it's like this. I'm from eastern Kentucky down along the the Big Sandy, right close to West Virginia. I've been hunting down there all my life, whitetails and such, anything legal really. But I've always had this dream of hunting the rockies and chasing mule deer with my bow, there's something about them that just, well, I just can't explain what the feeling is that I get when I see pictures of them." At this point he kinda went quiet for a minute as his mind drifted off, thinking about monster muleys I guess.
"Anyways, I've been dreaming about hunting out here just about forever I guess and now that I'm here I just can't figure this sort of hunting out. I've already been out here a week and while I have seen plenty of deer I can't seem to get close enough to a nice buck to get a shot off. I've seen probably 100 deer, bucks mostly but they always see me before I see them and are gone. I've been going around looking for some help from other hunters but everyone I have talked to is hunting elk and either don't know or don't have the time to help. My question is, can you help me? I have no money to offer but I need some serious help if I'm going to make this dream of mine come true. I've got another week and then I have to be back home as I'm leaving for MCRD the first week of october."
Now I was going to offer some tips, show him some maps of where to go and send him on his way but when he mentioned MCRD he struck a nerve...
As I sat there and watched the lights getting closer I couldn't help but laugh because one light was bouncing all over the place, it must have been held together by zip ties and duct tape and there were so many squeaks and creaks it sounded like it was ready to come apart, kentucky plates complimented the rig. When it finally pulled up out jumps this kid, maybe 18 or so and he walks right up and introduces himself, his name was Jim.
"Hey buddy, how ya doin'?" I asked
"Well sir" he said in his Kentucky drawl "I was hoping that maybe you could help me, I've already been to half a dozen camps but no one yet has been able to help me with my dilemma."
"Hmmm, lets hear your issue and then we'll go from there"
"See, it's like this. I'm from eastern Kentucky down along the the Big Sandy, right close to West Virginia. I've been hunting down there all my life, whitetails and such, anything legal really. But I've always had this dream of hunting the rockies and chasing mule deer with my bow, there's something about them that just, well, I just can't explain what the feeling is that I get when I see pictures of them." At this point he kinda went quiet for a minute as his mind drifted off, thinking about monster muleys I guess.
"Anyways, I've been dreaming about hunting out here just about forever I guess and now that I'm here I just can't figure this sort of hunting out. I've already been out here a week and while I have seen plenty of deer I can't seem to get close enough to a nice buck to get a shot off. I've seen probably 100 deer, bucks mostly but they always see me before I see them and are gone. I've been going around looking for some help from other hunters but everyone I have talked to is hunting elk and either don't know or don't have the time to help. My question is, can you help me? I have no money to offer but I need some serious help if I'm going to make this dream of mine come true. I've got another week and then I have to be back home as I'm leaving for MCRD the first week of october."
Now I was going to offer some tips, show him some maps of where to go and send him on his way but when he mentioned MCRD he struck a nerve...