TAOS, N.M., May 3 (Reuters) - David Elliot first thought of shooting an elk to help feed family and friends back in January when the United States reported its first novel coronavirus case.
Elliot, emergency manager at Holy Cross Hospital in Taos, New Mexico, had always wanted to go big game hunting and, with the pandemic spreading, there seemed no better time to try to fill his freezer with free-range, super-lean meat.
So for the first time in his life, despite not owning a rifle or ever having hunted large animals, he put his name in for New Mexico's annual elk permit draw.
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If you go down to the woods today - you'd better be wearing a high vis suit with "NOT AN ELK" written on it. And maybe " NO UN ALCE" for the sake of all those illegals!
ReplyDeleteI seriously imagine David and his family going hungry if they are to rely on big game hunting by a guy who has never done it before.
ReplyDeleteYeah, good luck with that!
He'll likely be "that guy" who ends up with beginners' luck and nails one right off.
ReplyDeleteI've seen several stories like this and the first thing I think is that it ain't hunting season for anything around here. I'm not opposed to taking a whitetail out of season, but you'd have to shoot several to really fill the freezer. Cheaper and quicker to but a calf from a local rancher and butcher it.
ReplyDeleteI've heard lots of stories about boys planning on moving to the country and living off deer and other game and saving lots of money. I don't think any of them ever cleaned a blue gill before.
ReplyDelete"you'll shoot your eye out, kid" and that's the most positive outcome possible.
ReplyDelete20 some years ago I subsistance hunted here in South Texas. Always hunted on Dad's ranch, always took doe and I would take four to six a year just for me and the old lady. Out of season, I would try and take doe with no fawns, but may have messed up a time or two. But the whitetail were as thick as ever in those days.
ReplyDeleteNow the same place has 10 Eagle Ford oil wells on the property and 15 transport trucks running over the ranch everyday. Today, I doubt there's a deer within ten miles of all that activity.
Then there are the guys who put in year after year and never draw a tag...I was only able to pull a deer tag, this year. Didn't get drawn for an elk tag. The big game draw this year had 250,000 applications for 60,000 tags. I reckon I was fortunate just to get a deer tag.
ReplyDeleteI Finally drew a Bull Elk tag on the Charles M Russell Wildlife Refuge Here in the Northeastern part of Montana after applying for 14 years. There are 10 Bull Tags with over a 1000 people applying. I hired an outfitter and went for it the last week of the season. We saw 5 bulls in 5 days. All right along the North shore of Fort peck Reservoir with a 20 mile per hour North wind blowing the whole time so there was no way to get on them. Plus it was the wettest November in a long time. Mud in the bottoms was 6-8 inches deep. I had lots of fun relived memories of hunting there with my late father and made lots of new memories. I used his rifle The rifle was 70 years old and the scope was 40 years old and the rifle shoots .501 groups at 100 yards. I hope he has fun and if he does not hire an outfitter he will not be having alot of fun IF he manages to get one down (I just hope he can tell bulls from cows.
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