Fruit by the Foot and my best scouting day ever!

[Wannabe1]

Got up this morning and put together a small pack with water and stuff for the trail. The plan was to scout and check one of the bowhunting only areas I had recently discovered near where I live. My son Robert asks if I made sure to put in the "Fruit by the Foot" for him. "We can't leave without it Papa" he states! Fine so, in goes the Fruit by the Foot.

We arrive and head into the tree farm I plan to hunt. About 1/2 mile in, Robert says he wants to stop and have a snack! I told him we just got started and he can't be hungry already! He insists so, like a good Papa, I give in. No sooner did we get ready to sit down, and 35-40yds ahead of us, a cow elk steps out onto the road. I quickly hush Robert and he gets real excited to see her. Pretty soon, she crosses on up into the trees and 4 more elk step out onto the road. I'm watching Robert when it suddenly dawns on me, this is his first time seeing elk in the wild and that close. He is practically beside himself with a grin bigger than the Grand Canyon. I send up a silent thank you to the Man for this day and opportunity with my son.

We had our snack while I soaked up all his excitement and thought there was no other place in the world where I would rather have been than right there with him. We later saw a blacktail doe and I found a couple of places to possibly put a ground blind in. Here is the place where the elk crossed in front of us:





All total: 5 elk, 1 doe, 1 excited youngster and 1 well, I can't explain how I feel!

[Wannabe1]

My only regret was that I was so focused on Robert and his expression, I didn't get the camera out in time take a pic of the elk. :-(

[4dogs]

    Cool deal....That right there is golden!

[Wannabe1]

I keep thinking about that Fruit by the Foot! If he hadn't insisted on me taking it, insisting on us stopping for it, we probably would have continued on up the logging road and missed the elk completely. Funny how somethings just work out.

[Alexander Traditional]

Good deal,I guess you'll have to take him hunting with ya.

[awry]

Priceless
Wouldn't worry about the elk pics ... his expression on seeing wild elk for first time is one/only experience and is priceless 

[ron w]

Now fruit by the foot is a must have on every trip.

[Wannabe1]

Now fruit by the foot is a must have on every trip.

That might be the solution Ron! :-)

[Roadkill]

It is those moments that make hunting what it is.  Those moments are hard to explain

[varmint101]

Sounds like a great trip!