Hunting Part Two

Well our trip almost got cancelled because the little red car blew up.. But my dad wanted Jared to be able to come back up and shoot a cow so he had us take Cassidy's car. We were going to leave Friday afternoon at about 3 so we could be up there by 5 but my mom was gone, and she had Cassidy's car. We ended up having to wait for her to get home, which was around 4, and once again almost didn't go because my dad said that it might be too late. We decided to try and make up there anyway, so we hurried and got the car packed and hit the road.

We made fabulous time and got to Panguitch lake by 5:30. We had perfect timing and happened to pass my dad and the rest of the gang on our way to camp. They were just leaving camp to head out hunting. We drove around a little bit but ended up sitting on the side of the road, watching clearings for elk. Dad and Jared saw some cow elk so the started to hike to get a little closer. They got about 400 yards away and then took the shot. It took four shots to get the elk down, the first two were way off because my dad told Jared that the elk was 500+ yards away (it was so flat that my dad was getting the trees behind the elk). After they finially figured out the right range Jared hit the elk (3rd shot) in the gut area and the in the spine with the 4th. After hitting it in the spine Doug, Kendall, and I hiked to where the elk was to help de-bone it and pack it out. Jared and my dad finished hiking to the elk. When they got to the elk it was still moving a little bit so Jared got to shoot it with his 10mm (in the eye...). Jared didn't care to have any pictures so we didn't get any... (It was dark and cold.)

After finishing up with the elk we hiked back to the truck and went back to camp. When we got back to camp we put the elk in ice chests and then had dinner. For dinner we had part of my dad's elk's tenderloins done over the fire. :) We then went to bed.

After waking up we packed up camp and ate breakfast. While doing this Jared had TONS of fun shooting his gun.

After Jared got done shooting I helped my dad take a score of his Elk. 

Unfortunately we didn't get to be there when my dad got his nice bull but Cassidy sorta got a video of it. Here's the video: