huntandfish
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I have been big game hunting now for over 33 years and I had my fair share of close calls in the field. Mostly rattlesnakes. One time had a mountain lion hiding behind a bush at a fishing game drinker. While I was looking at the ground at the deer tracks my friend decided to jump the fence. He made a loud noise doing it, and at that point the mountain lion came out from the bush. I was only about 10 feet away and had my friend not came over the fence. I might’ve been wrestling a mountain lion. My weapon of choice that day was a recurve bow. I surely would’ve lost the battle against a mountain lion.
in 2018, I was on a elk hunt and had shot an elk across the canyon. I took three shots and hit him twice and was confident that I had a dead bull across the canyon.So my brother and I descended down the hill and to the other side, and as we were approaching, he said make sure he’s dead. I was sure that the elk was dead and responded to my brother he’s dead! He responded I wouldn’t be so sure about that.As soon as he said that the elk had moved his leg, just a little bit, he was facing away from us and couldn’t see us, but definitely hurt us my brother said you better put another round in him. I instantly jacked in a shell, took it off safety and put my firearm on my shoulder. I was only about 20 yards away, and as I took a couple of steps, the Bull jumped up, and instead of running away, he had turned and was coming right at me. He had tipped his antlers down in fight mode and I just pulled the trigger. I wasn’t aiming through a scope. It was more of an instinctive shot and got lucky and dropped the elk in his tracks. Had I not been locked and loaded gun off safety and on shoulder I wouldn’t of had time to react and would’ve got gored by the elk. Here’s a picture of where the elk dropped. There was no zoom taken. You can see in the back where the blood is in the snow where he was laying originally.
in 2018, I was on a elk hunt and had shot an elk across the canyon. I took three shots and hit him twice and was confident that I had a dead bull across the canyon.So my brother and I descended down the hill and to the other side, and as we were approaching, he said make sure he’s dead. I was sure that the elk was dead and responded to my brother he’s dead! He responded I wouldn’t be so sure about that.As soon as he said that the elk had moved his leg, just a little bit, he was facing away from us and couldn’t see us, but definitely hurt us my brother said you better put another round in him. I instantly jacked in a shell, took it off safety and put my firearm on my shoulder. I was only about 20 yards away, and as I took a couple of steps, the Bull jumped up, and instead of running away, he had turned and was coming right at me. He had tipped his antlers down in fight mode and I just pulled the trigger. I wasn’t aiming through a scope. It was more of an instinctive shot and got lucky and dropped the elk in his tracks. Had I not been locked and loaded gun off safety and on shoulder I wouldn’t of had time to react and would’ve got gored by the elk. Here’s a picture of where the elk dropped. There was no zoom taken. You can see in the back where the blood is in the snow where he was laying originally.