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#2053789 - 09/01/10 09:38 AM

The Big Deer...

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I've noticed the last few years more TN hunters are going elk hunting. WARNING-ELK HUNTING IS ADDICTIVE!

One day a few years back when we were both bullet proof, Foster Butt and I decided to hike down into the Brazoz Hole in New Mexico and spike out.

The Brazoz Hole is a piece of vomitus composed of lava rock and torture. It also holds a lot of elk. After the three-hour climb down into it, we both wished we hadn't done it. As of that point, we had not considered how we would get a bull out, should we kill one.

We dined that night on freshly caught trout and half cooked potatoes. We tossed and turned through the night to a concert of elk bugles.

Shortly after day light, Foster shot a nice bull. Then came the torture.

The top picture is foster and his bull, the bottom is what we had to deal with. I was in shape then $\:\)$ Can you imagine packing 400 pounds of meat plus head and cape out of that?

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#2053796 - 09/01/10 09:43 AM

Re: The Big Deer... [Re: bowriter]

Good time Charlie
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Where is da pics.
Am I going blind? Ok I see them now $\:D$

Edited by Darton man (09/01/10 09:44 AM)

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#2053797 - 09/01/10 09:43 AM

Re: The Big Deer... [Re: Good time Charlie]

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You must be. I see them. Look again. $\:\)$

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#2053836 - 09/01/10 10:19 AM

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Dang that looks like some serious rough country right there!

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#2053839 - 09/01/10 10:21 AM

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Better men than I am !

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#2053856 - 09/01/10 10:27 AM

Re: The Big Deer... [Re: Snake]

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Think about it this way. It took four trips to pack the elk out. It was climb three steps and rest. The packs weighed about 90-100 pounds.

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#2053879 - 09/01/10 10:43 AM

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Thats the stuff that separates the serious hunter from the rest of the pack, right there!

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#2053893 - 09/01/10 10:52 AM

Re: The Big Deer... [Re: Rowdy]

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It dang sure seperated me. I never went back down in there again. We were a whole lot younger then, I think I was 50, and in pretty good shape. The elevation up on top is about 11,000.

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#2053904 - 09/01/10 11:00 AM

Re: The Big Deer... [Re: bowriter]

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The top picture is the meadow in front of the base camp in the early morning. Bottom pic is us heading for the Hole.

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#2053926 - 09/01/10 11:25 AM

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