Monday, August 15, 2011

Weekend scouting trip with freaky ending!



Myself and Nick were out with Jeff Hall on a scouting trip. Jeff was forunate enough to draw a early rifle 22N bull tag and hired Goodman Outfitters for a scout package. Sunday morning had us looking through the glass at approx 10 bulls in a canyon. There were a couple great bulls in the bunch that Jeff would defienetly be interested in chasing on his hunt. There was one that he really liked that was bedded and we waiting to get a better look at him. About 1:30 a young 5X5 stood up from his bed and started feeding. I told Jeff and Nick and we all were checking him out when all of a sudden "George" Started stumbling back and forth, We could not believe what we were seeing and were trying to figure out what was wrong with this bull! When all of a sudden he fell over and started kicking and shortly after expired. We could not believe what we just witnessed. After the shock factor and not knowing exaclty what happened, I got on the phone with Game and Fish I told them what I just saw. Dave Daniels with Game and Fish showed up and we hiked over to the bull. As we all got to the bull I we were all confused, Not a single mark on the bull anywhere, and he looked healthy as can be. At this point we still dont know how George died but Dave took some tissue samples for testing. I am very curious to find out the cause. Dave let me keep the rack, and I will have them around to share this story for years to come. This was the most freaky experience I have ever witnessed in all my 34 years in field.