It s kind of like the hunter that got his first elk with bad knees I was taking this one guy from arizona elk hunting and we are going down through some rough country and all I have heard is how bad his knees are im thiking if you will forget about your knees and start thinking about elk you might get lucky and see one. He is wlaking up in front making enough noise to scare the bears away and way to fast so I tell him wait a minute why dont you get back here behind me so I can see whats up ahead because we are coming up on a good draw that was producing some good bulls so I ease up to the edge of the draw and look up and down it and sure enough there is a good bull at the far upper end of it with only one problem there is a cow half way in between us all i can see of the bull is his rack so I look for a way to get in close and there is only one way so here we go i tell this guy this is what we got to do first we ease off into this draw and stay low walk up it untill we get to the end of it which takes us across the meadow then into the timber untill we get the other edge of it then we crawl from there past the cow out in the open I said you watch only nme forget the cow jsut watch me if i stop you freeze anbd dont move then when i start again follow me he says i dont think i can my knees are to bad I tell him if you want to kill an elk you do exactly what i tell you or we will just go back to camp now im not spooking elk if you wont try. I dont know maybe I was too rough on my hunters sometimes but i ussually got them what they were after so I really didnt care. So he decides he is going to do what I told him we got through the draw no problem then though the timber ok also then come the fun stuff I told him get ready to crawl and only watch me this cow was about 30 or 40 yds away and we were all going to be in the open I had never tried this before but had to try it. SO off I go crawling right out in the open with the cow she would raise her head and look at me I would stop and just kind of look at the ground and watch her out of the corner of my eye. when she would go back to grazing I would start again this went on for like what seemed forever till I got to a little bunch of trees where we could get a shot at this bull which was a not great but nice bull for his first one so when I get to where we need to be I look back and I have lost my hunter he is nowhere to be found I thought im killing this guy when i get my hands on him so I crawl back past this cow elk and get back to where I started and low and behold here is t his hunter laying on his back holding his knees in pain I tell him hey you want to kill and elk or lay here like a baby criing about your knees he kind of looks at me and says he wants to kill the elk so this time i go back past the cow and make sure he is coming behind me also the ground is about half frozen so I know it hurts his knees it hurts mine too like crawling on gravel but I get back to where we need to be and hunter is about ten yds behind me I set back and about the time the hunter gets up there the bull just slowly walks off into the timber out of sight well thats that the hunter gets there I show him where the bull went and he is triing to see through trees or somthing cause he is looking where it went wit ha look in his eyes like he was going to jump back out and say here i am shoot me now. I am jsut kind of resting and see something moving back onthe other side of the meadow and here comes another bull jsut walking across without a care in the world I look back and tell my hunter there he is and all he can do is look where the other one went I say no over there a different one he says where still focused on the same spot I grab is rifle and point it in the right direction shoot the damn thing will you he see him and starts to aim I look back and his gun is writing his name in the air he is shaking so bad I grab his gun barel tell him to stop breath for a second and pick out a spot on the shoulder like it was a tin can or target and shoot it he does the elk drops I get up and head that way and all of a sudden I thought I had been attacked by a bear somthing grabbed me and stated slinging me around well it wasnt a bear it was my hunter he got so excited he jumped up grabbed me and started jumping around like a kid that got his first bb gun I told him I thought your knees hurt he said not now and off he went to check out his first elk.. So not all storied end in tragedies lol. I think you got two for one here lol

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