76 Year Old Barebow Hunter Bags Monster Arizona Elk

By Ammoland

By Dennis Dunn

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- When a hunter goes afield, expectations are one thing; dreams are usually quite another.

Only rarely in life does reality arrive on the scene to overwhelm both — and utterly take your breath away.

Yet this is exactly what happened to me recently down in Arizona. I’m still floating three feet off the ground, pinching myself constantly, and asking, “Did that really happen to me?”

For 16 long years, I had been applying for an archery elk tag in the Grand Canyon State, and finally — in 2015 — I got drawn. The season opened on Friday, September 11th 2015. Because, for out-of-staters, these draw-tags are usually a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I had arranged for guiding services with Travis McLendon and Arizona Elk Outfitters. The outstanding guide he assigned me was Lane Buck from Cottonwood, AZ (about whom I cannot say enough).

For the first six days of the season, Lane and I hunted hard but saw a grand total of just one branch-antlered bull.

He was in his bed midday, and my stalk went for …Read the Rest

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