This elk hunt started back in April when I drew a New Mexico elk tag. May the 10th I was fishing with my wife and I slipped in the boat and fell down and tore my rotator cuff, And on May the 19th I had rotator cuff surgery. I really didn't know if I was going to be able to pull my bow back within the 17 weeks that I had to get prepared for this hunt. On week 12 I was able to start practicing with my bow at 40 lb, and by week 14 I was shooting 60 lb efficiently. Two days before I leave to go on the elk hunt I'm hanging the TV and I'm using my left arm more than normal because of my rotator cuff surgery, and while I'm holding the TV up with my left arm I popped a tendon in my left arm, but was somehow able to pull my bow back. I leave for the elk hunt by myself on September the 13th I arrive in New Mexico that evening. The 14th I get up and start scouting find a few elk that afternoon I go to the top of a mountain to scout on the backside of it. I start heading down at dark slip on a rock and fell directly on my shoulder that I just had surgery on 17 weeks before. I lay on the side of the mountain for 30 minutes trying to figure out what my next move would be finally get up make it to the truck go back to where I'm staying, I get up the next morning and I cannot draw my bow. Thank God I had some 800 mg ibuprofen I took that and by the afternoon I was somehow able to pull my bow back. This hunt I planned on being really selective and try to kill a giant bull but at this point I made my mind up that the first old bull that came out I was going to try to kill him. I called this bull out, and I knew he was an older bull gave me a shot at 18 yd broadside, it was an easy shot he ran 60 yd and fell over dead. I turned 60 years old in a few months and I think God was really testing me, that if I didn't call on him for his help, there is no way I would have gotten this done. So, Thank you God!
FYI The Rainbow in the pic is what I saw the day after I fell on the mountain. After seeing that I felt like God was saying it all going to be ok
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FYI The Rainbow in the pic is what I saw the day after I fell on the mountain. After seeing that I felt like God was saying it all going to be ok
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