The Farmer Takes A Wife (this one)

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Elk Hunting Part III


So this weekend MacKenzie is gone with her grandparents and that leaves Wayne and I free to do whatever. Well we woke up and decided to do NOTHING! Boy that was nice :) We watched a movie on TV had some coffee and breakfast in bed. Then nap time for me and Wayne decided to play X-Box. Just a little before noon, Wayne's brother Glenn called. They had gone hunting that morning and his wife, Jeannie shot and killed 2 HUGE ELK on their ranch in Grizzly. So that is where we were headed. I told Wayne that I was hungry and needed to eat before we left. Wayne informed me that we would get something to eat on the way. OK! Even better :) So we ate on the way. And by the time we got there, all of the work was done. They were gutted and skinned and they were just ready to hose them off. It was a weird story how Jeannie ended up shooting two- but since she only had 1 tag (which is normal) and Glenn's was for first season and it's now second- they ended up calling Rod and Brent (who never found the one from Thurs) and Brent tagged "the ugly" one. Wayne and I stayed there for the majority of the day and visited. We don't make it out to Grizzly very often- because it is out of the way and quite a drive! It was a nice day with our nieces, Jaycee 7, Janna almost 6, and nephew Jebb 3 1/2.

3 Comments:

At 10:57 AM, Blogger Gia said...

Oh my gosh Becky, those things are HUGE. I had NO idea they were that big as I have never seen one before....unless they are at the zoo. Do they have elk at the Zoo?

 
At 1:06 PM, Blogger ~Mandy~ said...

Wayne's horns are actually "rag horn." So he got a raghorn 5 point. That means that the horns are not very uniform and the tines (horns that branch off) are all at the top and not even throughout, i.e. starting at the top and progressing upwards. Jeannie got a 6 point, the ugly one, we call it that because one of the horns was funky looking...I'll try to take a pic of it tomorrow. And then the one she kept, the pretty one, was a 7 point. They are HUGE!!! The head and horns on Wayne's would easily sit inside of either of the other 2. I should have taken a pic of the bodies hanging...that is pretty impressive. Anyway, these easily weighed close to 1200 pounds. ***No, I have never seen elk in the zoo. Rocky Mountain Elk (as these are called) are seen in states in the Rockies and out West and over the Canadian Border. Don't think they are anywhere else in the US.***

 
At 11:12 AM, Blogger Gia said...

How come you never blog on this blog anymore?!? I like it better than the Myspace blog... Miss your blogs. :(

 

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