Posted on 11/22/2014 8:57:50 AM PST by smokingfrog
Alyssa Caldwell and her father, Joshua, were heading to what they hoped would be a great spot for Alyssa to take a nice bull elk on the edge of a meadow in New Mexico's Unit 52, just south of the Colorado border.
After hunting a makeshift aspen blind over a waterhole, dad and daughter decided to stalk to a meadow and see if any elk had come to feed lower on the mountain. However, after about 200 yards, Joshua realized he had forgotten the shooting sticks in the blind.
"I decided to head back up to grab them and told Alyssa to sit tight," he said. "About 30 to 45 seconds after I started walking, I heard a shot."
He thought she had killed a big elk -- not exactly.
(Excerpt) Read more at issuu.com ...
“When was that picture taken, 1942 ?”
From the gear being used, it appears to be quite recent. Notice the stainless rifle barrel, the nylon sling, the camouflage composite stock on the rifle. All of those things are pretty recent.
I suspect that the hunt occurred this year. The story was not covered anywhere else, because no reporters were contacted.
Please strike that from the conversation. My multitasker is on the fritz.
I find that very hard to believe. How did LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS get it then ?
Glad that young lady was well schooled in shooting. She certainly has moxie.
Article was a bit confusing. The writer said the hunt was in New Mexico, Unit 52. No comment was made about crossing the border into Colorado. Yet when the cat was shot, Colorado game wardens appeared on scene.
Basically, the LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS is an APP that gathers hunting articles from other sources, am I correct ?
The creator is Craig Nyhus.
Lone Star Outdoor News is published every other week and you can usually pick it up for free at sporting goods stores. I just picked up this particular issue from November 14 at Gander Mountain yesterday.
http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/story/1387509114s13kw8157g0
You can call the editor and ask him if he faked the story.
For more information, call Conor Harrison at (214) 361-2276.
That incident will make some good memories. Mountain lions also make good jerky.
I’m sure that if you look at some of the other articles inside the paper at the link, they would not be publicized elsewhere either. LOSN is just a narrow market publication. Reality isn’t solely dependent on Google.
1937 or thereabouts....
good catch.
how many people take a kodak brownie on a hunting trip these days?...
I am a (former) hunter from a hunting family but you will have to tell me , what are shooting sticks?
It looks like the Carson National Forest, which is in NM and CO. I’m guessing you probably need a permit to hunt mountain lions, which they probably didn’t have, but are allowed to shoot one if threatened. They’re probably required to report to someone at BLM or whatever if this happens.
A shooting stick is a monopod for resting/bracing your rifle.
Cool story but what a brutal format on that site.
They were stalking to the meadow.
I don’t think they had Realtree camo hoodies in 1937.
Those things I am familiar with just never heard it called “shooting sticks”.
Thanks.
Hairstyle??? She has a hat on.
:P
marktwain wrote:
The story was not covered anywhere else, because no reporters were contacted.
UCANSEE2 replied:
I find that very hard to believe. How did LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS get it then ?
marktwain answers:
It could be that he heard about it locally and decided it was a good story. The picture is said to be taken by the father, and the residence is said to be Midland, Texas.
I suspect the confusion between Colorado and New Mexico came from the mention that the hunt was near the Colorado border.
Easy to do if you are working off of notes.
That picture is not decades old.
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