Back Hunting Again!

I’m back in the saddle again!  I have just returned home from a tour of Montana, Wyoming, and my beloved MacMillan River Adventures in Yukon Canada.  The hunting and filming was spectacular!  While elk hunting, I had an elk walk up to me so close that I could have touched him with the tip of my Gold Tip arrow.  However, that wasn’t the most excitement that I have had recently. While hunting at MacMillan River Adventures, which is undeniably the greatest moose hunting on the planet, I had a close encounter to beat ALL close encounters!  With only a bow and arrows in my hand, I was charged by a monster 1,800 pound bull moose.

One of our expert moose calling guides, Matt, called this bull to 15 yards of where I was standing in a willow patch.  Matt had been raking trees and bull grunting like a big boy himself so the bull came in looking for a fight.  When he stepped out of the willows at 15 yards broadside I was at full draw and ready to give him the hot sauce when my camera man Josh said “NO”.  When you are filming a T.V. show, no means no, so I didn’t shoot.  The bull walked a few more steps and then turned directly toward me and stopped.  After some head swaying, eye rolling and menacing grunts, the bulls ears dropped and he charged at me full boar.  During the rut an enraged bull moose will charge a freight train.  Trust me, at that moment I wanted to be anywhere but in the path of this angry behemoth.  Thank God I was already at full draw because when the bull got to one yard I shot an arrow just inside his right shoulder, between his nose, horns and shoulder bone, and drove it through his right lung and into his heart.  The bull skidded to a stop, with his last track measuring only 18 inches from the tip of my Lacross boot!  He staggered, turned on a dime, and disappeared into the willows from wince he had come.  I will be writing this entire story for a popular magazine so you can read the entire story then.  Just know that I was unscathed and will be grilling moose back straps with NASCAR legend Kyle Petty tonight at the Ultimate Tailgate American Royal BBQ bash!  Moose-elujah!

You can see this incredible hunt footage on the new show that I am filming for “The 4CE” that will be airing on the Outdoor Channel every Thursday night at 7:00pm EST starting in July of 2010.  My co-hosts on that show are Jim Burnworth of Western Extreme and Ray Bunney of Adventures Abroad, also on the Outdoor Channel.  Jim was also up in the Yukon and his hunt footage is awesome, too.  Also on the hunt was my good friend Ted Nugent.  I was at Ted’s side when he arrowed a monster bull at 12 yards.  You can watch all of these hunts on “The 4CE” and Ted’s “Spirit of the Wild”.

I want to personally thank everyone for the kind words and e-mails that I have received, and especially for all of the prayers.  I am not totally out of the woods but at least I am back in the woods.  I am on the right track and plan to keep promoting hunting, our Second Amendment rights, and family values for many years to come!  I wish all of you a healthy and successful season of harvest!   Godspeed!  Keith