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Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SiouxPal who wrote (49139)	11/17/2005 12:57:37 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361517

Message 21894481

To: SiouxPal who wrote (49139)	11/17/2005 6:22:17 PM
From: Bill on the Hill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 361517

Speaking of sentencing. No death sentence dished out to elk yet. Fourth elk season started yesterday am. So far this hunt has been a success. Nothing dead. My son has different ideas. He and a friend of his just walked out the door of the cabin headed for the second draw a mile west where he and I saw fresh sign in the snow last night. Both of those boys take hunting seriously and will shoot something if they can. We walked about ten miles yesterday hunting the high ridges. Luke spotted a royal elk (7x7 points) on the high ridge just below an outcropping of rock at the ridge line about 700 yards away and 600 feet above us. I looked at him and told him if he shot it he was packing it out. He said my neighbor would let him take a mule up and pack it out. I resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have to hunt with him for the elk. We crossed over the ridge at secret spring and headed up toward the top bowls below the ridgeline. Crossing the bowl behind the first ridge we had to cross through scrub oak that was so thick you had to walk a hundred yards to make 20 yards advance. It had snowed the night before and 4" of wet snow hung in the branches of the oak brush and pinon trees. Every turn around a branch made snow fall and it would fall into my collar and down my back. I was sweating and the snow melted and ran down my back and soon my ass was soaking wet from the running melted snow. On we went. Soon my pants and boots were soaked from the melt. Up we hiked. When we got to within two hundred yards the elk snorted and in ten jumps was over the rock outcropping and out of sight. Luke decided to hunt across the ridge and through the oakbrush circling around, down and then out across a deep gully, up the other side and then back down toward the house. By the time we reached my house we both were soaked and my back and his hips were cramping along with being chilled to the bone. We were going to get up at 5 am and head back out. This morning the alarm went off and I got up and went into wake up my son to head out again. I grabbed his big toe sticking out from under the corner of the blanket and pulled on it. He grumbled and said, "just let me sleep a few more minutes". Three more times I pulled that toe until about 9 am he rolled out of the bed. I chuckled and told him that his father was better prepared for pain than he was. He asked how that could be and I told him that I raised him and that caused me more pain than he ever had to deal with. He said, "why?". I reminded him that when he went hunting I always went with him and I am 27 years older than he is........so if he experienced pain I more than likely experienced more than him because of my advanced age. I did not tell him that I was ready to go this morning when he was not. I do tell him that he can never outdo his father. He trys and I always end up in pain. But I never admit it and keep going with him everytime. This morning I was thankful that he was not ready. I was in serious pain. He and a friend of his just walked out to do it again. I begged off telling him that I needed to stay and clean house. I think he bought it. My cleaning will consist of making my bed and getting ready to occupy it. Taco Bell will cook for us tonight. Crossing the high bowl yesterday we found fresh bear tracks, cougar track and scat, bobcat sign, coyote tracks, elk sign and deer track. The bear prints were 7" across and the back pad was 4 1/2" across. It was a sow and her 2 cubs followed right behind. About three feet off the bear sign were coyote tracks that followed right behind as well. I imagine the coyote was just waiting for the bear to eat something and the coyote was figuring that it would scavenge off the bear. Because of injured deer and elk from hunters the bear and coyote find the dead carcass and feast from them. We saw a place where a grey squirrel had been sitting. The squirrel track led down a path and then ended in a place where blood was sprayed in a two foot diameter circle. No other track was visible. We sat there until we figured out what had happened there. The closest we can figure was that the squirrel was going down the path last night in the full moon light and a owl spotted it and swooped down and taloned it. It had to be a bird that did it as no other sign was visible. We have many owls around here. I have a large owl living in the sillage silos a hundred yards from the house. I have seen this owl take out bats in the middle of the night. Right in mid-flight. I love that owl.........