Post by Houndsman on Sept 19, 2008 21:26:58 GMT -5
_ it was nov 26 my 23rd bday got to the woods as usual around 430 am looking for tracks i was on the south end of the club looking for a particular track bingo i found it later that morning got on the radio called my brother said come to half moon cut off i got the buck we been looking for all year then uncle BO come on the radio and says i got one on the cow pen that i dont know why somebody has not set up on 24-7 it the biggest track he has ever seen now uncle bo is old school dont nothing excite him but he was excited so my brother goes to look at this track he gets on the radio and he goes to making a fuss about hoe big this track is so i start heading backup to where this monster track is to see what all the fuss is about now this thing is walking rds so by the time i get to the north end of the club my buddy blind hog has found the track on another rd i pull up to him and look at the track he looks at me and i look at him isay that aint no deer he says it aint no hog and isay it its something that has got out the game preserve about a mile down the road and about this bill gets on the radio and says he has found the biggest track he has ever seen in turkey head so we know what he has found so we decide that this thing whatever it is moving so lets gets some dogs on it now let me say this things track looked like a buck track as big as your hand so bill puts dogs on it at the intersection of the turkey head rd and the creek dead end the rest of the crew went around to the other side of the block i told my wife i was staying here that whatever it is is lost and will be coming back so in about 15 minutes the dogs jump this thing and it sounded like 9 head got caught by something it was an erie sound bill had pulled up the dead end left his truck on foot and went to the creek istayed at intersection when it turned east i knowed me or bill was fixing to get a look at what we was runnin about that time his wife is sitting in the truck she gets on the radio and says now keep in mind this lady don't cuss yall we are runnin a f%&*ing elk bill he runnin down the road well bill wasnt shootin so he had to be coming my way so i stared runnin down the road me and my rifle ihad got about 60 yards down the road and he just happin to be coming around the same curve as iwas so iwas trying to stop because this thing has scared the crap out of me and actually turned around to run back to my truck iwas giving him the road when i realized i had my gun in my hand he was trying to get turned around himself but before he could i shoot him three times and he feel in the road he is 5x5 elk that weighed 640 lbs the hard part was try callin some one in fl and telling them you just killed an elk ahead of dogs no one seems to believe you but here is the pics to prove it