The hunt was truly an answer to prayer. The verse the Lord gave to me on Friday morning was? "Delight thyself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your heart." Was getting an elk really a desire of my heart and one that the Lord would give? Remember in the last Life on the Ranch I asked if it was O.K. to ask God to tie an elk to a tree? Well----
I met Chip in Miles City at 3:30 and we headed north to Jordan, then Brusett and then what looked like wide open spaces. We were hunting in an area that was burned about 4 years ago so the majority of the trees were dead.
As we were getting closer to our campsite, Chip spotted a bull elk looking at us and then a smaller one up on the hill. My hunt was already successful. I was with Chip in beautiful country and I had seen an elk.
We got to our campsite and got the camper set up. Chip cooked supper and then it decided to rain. I am a tad bit claustrophobic and knew that the rain meant mud and that we weren't going anywhere. I didn't sleep much that night and woke Chip up to talk to me at 3 A.M.
Saturday was a beautiful day. We hiked and then we were going to take the four wheeler out as the ground had dried up. We realized that we had a flat tire and ran the four wheeler into town to get it fixed. I needed that to get my bearings straight and to realized that we really were in civilization. When we got back to camp we rode all over but didn't see any elk.
Saturday night it didn't just rain, it poured and the wind blew. But I slept through most of it. Chip woke up at 3 A.M. and started praying about this elk hunt. He really wanted me to get one and he was concerned.
Sunday was the big day. We got up and walked around a bit and then took the four wheeler out scouting. We went about a mile when Chip stopped and we walked up on a hill so that Chip could check out the area. He spotted a herd of elk a couple of miles away. He said that a couple of them were huge! (My dream come true!) As we started to work our way around the hills to stay out of sight of those elk, we crossed a set of elk tracks. We followed those tracks and saw the two elk bedded down about 300 yards away. At the same time we heard a four wheeler to the right of us a few miles away and we saw three hunters on the skyline on horseback. Chip knew that we wouldn't have a chance getting to the herd of elk before the rest of them did so we decided on the biggest of the two that were bedded down.
I crawled to the edge of the hill and scoped the elk, found the biggest of the two and shot. He stood up and then laid down but his head was still up. I shot again and then he got up and headed up the hill. I made a shot at him while he was running and hit him. The three hunters turned him around and he headed down into the trees. That is where he got stuck. The hunters sat on a hill and pointed to where the elk was. I made the last shot. The three hunters were there and helped Chip pull him to a flat piece of ground where the work began. We had him back to camp by 5 P.M.
Chip is as proud as he can be! He has shown the horns and pictures to everyone.
Every step we took on those days could have been considered coincidence, but having prayed as we did, we knew that it was God answering our prayer and telling us that He does love us.
I met Chip in Miles City at 3:30 and we headed north to Jordan, then Brusett and then what looked like wide open spaces. We were hunting in an area that was burned about 4 years ago so the majority of the trees were dead.
As we were getting closer to our campsite, Chip spotted a bull elk looking at us and then a smaller one up on the hill. My hunt was already successful. I was with Chip in beautiful country and I had seen an elk.
We got to our campsite and got the camper set up. Chip cooked supper and then it decided to rain. I am a tad bit claustrophobic and knew that the rain meant mud and that we weren't going anywhere. I didn't sleep much that night and woke Chip up to talk to me at 3 A.M.
Saturday was a beautiful day. We hiked and then we were going to take the four wheeler out as the ground had dried up. We realized that we had a flat tire and ran the four wheeler into town to get it fixed. I needed that to get my bearings straight and to realized that we really were in civilization. When we got back to camp we rode all over but didn't see any elk.
Saturday night it didn't just rain, it poured and the wind blew. But I slept through most of it. Chip woke up at 3 A.M. and started praying about this elk hunt. He really wanted me to get one and he was concerned.
Sunday was the big day. We got up and walked around a bit and then took the four wheeler out scouting. We went about a mile when Chip stopped and we walked up on a hill so that Chip could check out the area. He spotted a herd of elk a couple of miles away. He said that a couple of them were huge! (My dream come true!) As we started to work our way around the hills to stay out of sight of those elk, we crossed a set of elk tracks. We followed those tracks and saw the two elk bedded down about 300 yards away. At the same time we heard a four wheeler to the right of us a few miles away and we saw three hunters on the skyline on horseback. Chip knew that we wouldn't have a chance getting to the herd of elk before the rest of them did so we decided on the biggest of the two that were bedded down.
I crawled to the edge of the hill and scoped the elk, found the biggest of the two and shot. He stood up and then laid down but his head was still up. I shot again and then he got up and headed up the hill. I made a shot at him while he was running and hit him. The three hunters turned him around and he headed down into the trees. That is where he got stuck. The hunters sat on a hill and pointed to where the elk was. I made the last shot. The three hunters were there and helped Chip pull him to a flat piece of ground where the work began. We had him back to camp by 5 P.M.
Chip is as proud as he can be! He has shown the horns and pictures to everyone.
Every step we took on those days could have been considered coincidence, but having prayed as we did, we knew that it was God answering our prayer and telling us that He does love us.
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