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General Category => National Outdoor News Headlines => Topic started by: mudbrook on December 11, 2007, 12:26:25 PM
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Elk hunt is one for the books
By The Associated Press
KALISPELL - Cheyenne Moore knew the elk was big, but she didn't know how big.
"My hands were shaking, and I could hardly stand up because my legs were shaking," said the 13-year-old from Kalispell. "I haven't been around elk that much, so I wasn't sure what I had."
But her dad, Mike Moore, had a good idea as they approached the downed elk.
"I said to Cheyenne, 'You do not know what you have just done. You have just shot a monster bull elk,' " he recalled of the Nov. 23 hunt. "It is probably the biggest bull elk ever to be killed by a youth hunter, under the age of 16."
Read more... http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/09/news/state/38-hunt.txt