Anatomy of an Elk Hunt (as told by my hubs)

Friday morning leave early at 4 am so you can get to the place early and scout for elk.

• Friday morning leave early at 4 am so you can get to your Dad's house to find out the trailer hitch has a hitch problem. You fix the hitch problem and end up 1/3 of the way to your destination around 11 am.

Get to campsite and set up so you can scout for elk.

• Get to campsite late and get camp set up late and find out that it is to dark to scout for elk.

Get up early again to go for the morning hunt

• Actually get up early and hunt elk while the weather changes from soft to drenching rain. Get drenched, head back to campsite for lunch.

Get back to campsite, while pouring rain try to make sandwiches with uncut lunch meat. Hubs, cuts the lunch meat in preparation for the sandwiches.

• Hubs cuts the lunch meat with sharp hunting knife and while doing slices a 3 inch incision down the finger. Finger bleeds, bleeds and bleeds and now has gone numb.

Go get medical care

• 3 adults men decide that since the bleeding is so profuse they should seek some medical attention. Drive to small town and go to instacare.

Receive stitches and watertight finger packing.

• Hubs receives stitches and having already been given 4 shots to numb the pain feels every stitch being pulled through the skin.

Go back out to hunt in the evening.

• Since it was a downpour decided to get some lunch and go to a movie.

Get up early the next morning and hunt for elk.

• Sit in truck and listen to conference with the heater on while watching the snow collapse the tent.

Eat lunch and go back out for the evening hunt.

• After listening to conference brave the snow to pack up belongings and head for home.

Arrive home having "seen a few deer" and having an awesome story to tell the nephews about being attacked by a chipmunk.