Monday was the opening day for rifle elk in the zone that we hunt and my son and I were hunting on a friend's oat field that the elk had been trashing all fall...it is a wide open field with a 1/4 of solid bush adjacent to it that has been posted no hunting or tresspassing for as long as I can remember.
So here we are sitting in our ground blinds and it is coming to last light..'bout 15 minutes left and the herd starts coming over the fence to feed on the leftover silage...we can only shoot 3 points or better...no cow tag this year!! My son counted 40 cows, calves, spikes and 2 pointers that came over the fence about 50 yds in to the field. The herd bull, a big 6 x 6 stood on the other side of the fence at the wire and would not cross even though the rest of the herd was feeding already....he watched them until it got too dark and I came to pick him up. I guess he has learned something over the years hunting with the old man...he passed on him even though that was the only legal animal!!The farmer said he should have shot him and drug him under the fence...I diplomatically told him that we enjoyed hunting too much to risk something like that and I know some guys would of!!
I couldn't have been prouder of him!!
Proud of my son!!
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