Buffalobob
In rural Nebraska Dinner is at noon and Supper is in the evening.
About a year ago the local TV station started forecasting the weather for times of day; breakfast, lunch, dinner. Apparently there was some feedback as within about a month it was changed to; breakfast, dinner, supper although I think their supper is around 5:30pm I almost never eat supper before 10:00pm.
Roy
Since I was young I had always wanted to go Elk hunting, never thought it would happen.
Well I have now been Elk hunting 4 times( twice one year, month long season).
The first year I had a bull tag, saw nothing until the last day when a friend and I were walking on an Elk trail rounded a corner and there they were about 70 yds off. If I remember correctly there were 5 with one bull it turned and the only shot I had was up the vent. Since I was carrying a 25-06 I passed and was not able to catch back up with them.
The second year I drew a late season cow tag. On the first outing I was walking through the timber and came across a nice 6x6 and a raghorn had the 6x6 in the scope and was watching for cows none showed up this was at about 60 yds. I went back at the end of the season ( the very end of December) the we knew the snow was deep so we took mountain sleds along. I stepped of the sled and walked to a ridge to see if there was any activity and 300yds off saw a herd of 7 elk running up the next ridge in the wide open, I had left my rifle on the sled. I did a lot of walking but that was the only time I saw any Elk on that excursion.
The third year I had a bull tag again. I was with a friend who had hunted the same area the year before(I had the late season cow tag he hunted the 2nd or 3rd season). He said this looks like a good spot and asked would like to watch this trail or the one 100yds North I said you're here I'll take the North one. Within 20 minutes I heard 2 gunshots and walked back down to where he was and he said a bull just walked past him he shot twice but wasn't sure if he hit it. We looked but couldn't find any blood both of us walked up and down the elk trail but couldn't find anything. He went back and sat at where he had been, so I decided if he's that confident that he missed I'll go back to where I was. I'll be darned if I didn't walk right to the dead Elk who had circled around and headed back up to where we could get to him with a 4 wheeler to pack it out. High double lung shot with a 300 win mag and fail safe bullets pencil in pencil out no expansion, no blood even where he layed.
I later sat and watched another trail and had a cow walk down it had the crosshairs on her for a while, just to prove I could then put the gun down and watched to see if a bull was following her, NO.
I am telling you this to say that you shouldn't feel like the Lone Ranger as my Elk hunting has not gone well either. I also enjoyed the heck out of it, and I am sure I'll be doing it again.
As to the high fenced hunts, several years ago I had the opportunity to go on a canned turkey hunt which someone else paid for me to go on (one of those perks from work).
They turned a turkey loose at the head of a draw full of timber and the "guide" next to me tried to call it in. Of course it scurried down the draw towards me and I shot it, just like I would have if it had still been in the yard. The whole thing was video taped and it really bothered me how they talked it up and acted like I had really done something just like it had been a real hunt. That's been about 20 years ago and it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Not all of my hunting is what some here would consider fair chase (we gang hunt coyotes with vehicles and it's loads of fun) but the high fenced hunts are not for me, but I have nothing against anyone else who wants to go on one.
I'll make this post a little longer by saying that I doubt that a high fenced buffalo hunt is much different than a free range buffalo hunt and I could possibly be coerced into one of those.
Sorry about the long post.
James
