The Utah Tracker: Glassed up a Giant

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ---Theodore Roosevelt 1910

Friday, September 5, 2014

Glassed up a Giant

I was down on the Alton Unit during the first week of their gun hunts. Karrie Parsons was one of the lucky public tag holders. Her family, including her nephew Reggie Parsons, had been hunting for 4 days and were trying to turn up a great buck. I asked them if they wanted help and joined their efforts. After about an hour of glassing I turned up this magnum buck. He was bedded in a sage and juniper flat. I got on the radio and got Kerrie and her husband over and she made an excellent 400 yd. shot. (197" gross B&C)