Hunting with the family

[Ted Fry]

Just thought I would share the great trip I was blessed to share with my Wife Lois, as well as our two sons Jesse and Joey. To spend time with your sons hunting elk in the mountains is a blessing I will never forget. To get meat on that trip is only a small ( but nice) part of it.
Man I am so lucky to have a wife that loves the mountains as much as I do . You should have seen the look of my oldest sons face when he got within 50 yards of a 5x5 bull at a wallow but couldnt get any closer, priceless.

[BigRonHuntAlot]

Awesome Pic. Thanks Ted and CONGRATULATIONS on the family hunt.  

[knife river]

Great stuff, Ted!    

[rabbitman]

Congrats Ted....on the bull and the great family.  

[Littlefeather]

 Very Cool!    CK

[vermonster13]

great job! Nice work on the bull too.

[George Tsoukalas]

Congratulations, Ted. Time with family is well spent. Jawge

[Bob Walker]

Nice to be able to do it with the whole crew!

[gregg dudley]

Outstanding!

[K.S.TRAPPER]

Great picture,Great family,Great bull  

Maybe a article in the future????   :D  

Like Jawge said, Time with family is well spent

Ok,what's the arrow sticking in the tree for?

Tracy

[blacktailchaser]

nice bull ted.what blows my mind is how much your youngest son has grown.8yrs ago at a tao shoot my wife took a photo of me and your son was in it and he was just a little guy.MAN,they grow fast.john

[kojac]

great pic and whos arrow made meat?      

[B.O.D.]

Good job Ted, what bow are you shooting???
Family together is a great thing!      

[TexMex]

       

[MI_Bowhunter]

Good stuff. Congrats.        

[kcbrown]

Good Deal. All my bunch is going to LBL this next week.  

[Charlie Lamb]

That's the good stuff Ted!!    Wish I could join ya for that late season hunt, but doesn't look like it will be possible. (even if you didn't live half way around the world from me    )

[Ted Fry]

Thanks guys , yes I cant express what a joy it was to spend this time together , yes they grow fast , I still cant believe my oldest ( joey ) is 16. Seems like just the other day I was carrying him in a backpack at shoots.
Arrow in the tree is the one I pulled from the chest of the bull , I didnt want to loose it while doing all the skinning and packing. Actually while I was tracking the bull it was the first thing I saw sticking out of a big brown mound (elk) in the dense huckleberry brush,white feathers.
Funny , I spent half my life trying to get a big bull and could never do it , finally get to a point in my life I realized it didnt matter and I got one. Still does not compare to the joy I felt hunting with my family in the mountains of Idaho.
The bow is an old friend of mine named lightning , osage sinew takedown. arrow was a fir selfnocked with ebony footing tipped with a razor sharp Magnus 160 grain.
Like I said earlier , you should have seen the excitement from Joey after getting to within 50 yards of a bull thrashing in a wallow . He said he tried the Jedi mind trick to get the elk to come closer but found that wont work on elk.
Charlie, someday.

[BryanB]

Ted-
Great picture and a wonderful time spent with your family.
Congrats.
Bryan

[Tree Killer]

Ted...Congratulations on the successful family outing! Oh, and the large hooved ungulate isn't bad either!    

You coming over the mountain to hunt Blacktail's later?    

Ron