Mike,

Congratulations on a fantastic hunt and a very nice bull!

I'm sure that the moment when you knew for sure about your success in taking him cleanly must have been very sweet! A memory to be treasured in old age!

Be sure that IMHO not many here know even remotely what it is like to crawl on hands and knees for a few hundred yards! It is after just a few dozens of yards when you find out that a human hand is not designed for being flat on the ground and then flexing the arm forward. Have you also switched to crawling on knees and knuckles? Just to get your knuckles so worn to be bleeding? Yeah. Few know what it is really like to crawl a long distance. I do, and I most heartily congratulate you for listening to the PH's encouragement and persevering. Your bad knees must have given you absolute hell?

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren