The Utah Tracker: Marshall's First Big Game Hunt

"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

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Marshall's First Big Game Hunt

Marshall passed his hunter's safety course so for Christmas I secured a cow elk permit for him good on the Fishlake unit. We spotted a small herd two miles off and was able to hike into position. As we were trying to find a prone rest for a 400 yard shot, they caught our movement and took off. We tracked them up and Marshall was able to put down this giant cow with one well placed shot. She was a giant, as big as some of the big bulls we have harvested!