Doubletough Outdoors

Heroes humor, squirrel

Here’s a story you won’t find on the front pages:  a group of hunters come across a cow elk that had fallen through ice in a depression on the prairie and attempt to free her.  Due to the hole being surrounded by ice, she could not pull herself out on her own.  It’s a great example of hunters as stewards of the land, not a bunch of yahoos shooting up the countryside.

Thanks to Travis of AddictedtoHunting!

Heroes Elk, video

From North Dakota comes the story of Jacey and her big whitetail hunt.  Due to disabilities, Jacey requires a wheelchair but this does not deter her from her love of the outdoors and a chance at a big 2008 NoDak buck.  Her friends and family prepared a ground blind that would accomodate the chair and using a crossbow, Jacey knocked down a fine 8-point!  

These photos were sent to us from Doubletough friend Lance Enget of Bismarck, ND with a note saying Jacey would be featured on an upcoming episode of Ultimate Outdoor TV.  The event was made possible by Sporting Chance, an organization that helps disabled youths get back to the outdoors. Read more…

Deer, Heroes North Dakota, whitetail deer

If you haven’t already heard this story out of Wyoming last week, take heed as you prepare to head into the hills this season.  

Ron Leming Sr. (pictured) had already missed two standing elk and on this day, was thirty yards downhill from his son, Ron Leming Jr.  While calling in an elk, the son heard a noise behind and turned to find himself fifteen feet from a grizzly and unable to get off a shot at it, he jumped behind a tree before tearing off downhill.  Ron’s dad let loose an arrow at the bruin as his son went by and was uncertain if it found its mark.  ”I took three or four more steps and I fell.  The bear was on top of me,” said Ron Jr.   Read more…

Heroes attack, grizzly bear, Wyoming

This story came from Bubba Enget of the Doubletough camp around February of last year.  It is a remarkable account of two bulls locked up and facing certain death if not for a local rancher….

 
It’s not all checking hunting and fishing licenses.

Sometimes the issues are bigger. Like when a Nevada game warden was handed the chore of figuring out how to separate two bull elk that locked horns while sparring and couldn’t untangle them.

The saga began Nov. 21 when a rancher in Reese River Valley spotted the two elk. By the following day, the animals were gone and the rancher assumed they had separated. Read more…

Heroes Elk, Nevada, photography, rescue