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True thing. And at the end, if you're desperate enough, you can tag the horse! :-)

Dude... could happen! I don't even like the damn things.

-jeff

We had a coupla horses when I was in high school. I like them. As family pets they're pretty cool. I was never a real comfortable or enthusiastic rider, somehow my sister's wound up with the riding "duties" and I wound up with the shovel. :-(

I'm around them a lot; we take care of our neighbor's when she's gone, etc.

I don't hate 'em, but they don't move me!

I will probably take some riding lessons this summer to get ready for getting packed into that big ol' canyon this fall <g>. That would probably be a BAD time to start the learning process.

-jeff

Jeff I will bet your ridding mules and they are pretty easy to ride.

The outfitter said that there are whole stretches you can get off and just walk alongside the mules and horses if you want... says a lot of guys do that to rest their knees. It hurts your knees to ride a horse!?

Sounds like an adventure. I'm all about adventure. To turn things back towards the intent of this thread, the whole idea is to NOT worry about the firearm... NOT spend the money on guns and gack... but rather spend it to get in deep into relatively unpressured elk.

The outfitter says we'll never see another hunter, and any shots we hear will be from one of the guys in our camp. I like that! Plus, in that steep country, to have someone who will go get your elk out of whatever hole it dies in is pretty cool too.

-jeff

Jeff you should consider some bike cycle shorts to wear under your pants if your not used to the saddle we did that to avoid the chafering that comes from ridding when you do not do it very much the padding was nice too and nobody but us knew we had them on . Yep I will be waiting for the stories and pictures make sure you have lots of batteries your going to have a busy fall...

Knock on wood, Good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise...

I'm trying really hard NOT to be preoccupied with firearms... other than practicing with what I got.

Then again I know that what I got is serious elk medicine, overkill really, so that helps <g>.

-jeff

When I stop eating and breathing regularly you can call it preoccupation!

The bicycle shorts help alot. If you have any prostate problems, the padding helps that also. If not the shorts, at least wear poly long johns. Anything that helps you slide.

Years ago, guys use to wear panty hose,but you sure didn't want to be seen with them.

Sore knees can happen, but correctly adjusted stirrup length and sccabard placement can help. Too short of stirrup length is the most common culprit

Saddlesore, I'm 42 years old.

At my age, guys are in complete denial about even the POSSIBILITY of prostate problems!

:-)

-jeff

Trust me, 8 hrs in the saddle and when you get off,you will wonder why that thing won't work. Before you got on,you could probably write your name in the snow. After, you will have probles just gettin your initials done.

All,

Eight hours in the saddle without a walk-stretch-piss-grub-drink break is way too long.

Particularly if it's not your own a good saddle horse or mule you are familiar with..and it with you..and the saddle and stirrups are fitted for some other person..you'd be lucky to walk unaided after eight hours...let alone function or hunt..or deal effectively with a camp whore..:)

Olson..42?...:)You ain't even seen age or pain yet..:) Jim

That's what you old codgers keep telling me, but, I'm in denial.

You know my legs feel great the last year or so. I think skiing hard the last 3 seasons has really helped my bad hip, ironically.

I would imagine the groin muscles are gonna be SORE for a guy not used to riding, eh?

-jeff

Saddlesore I was going to mention the nylons but didn't want to be known as a girly girl but I hear they work although

I have a friend who has logged all over the US we were having dinner at a bachelor party for a buddy there were about 20 guys carring on and talking it was pretty rowdy and he started talking about logging in the south and being in water all day and he was saying that they bought all the nylons out that the local 7-11 and were them every day for 3 weeks about that time I looked around the table it was dead silent half the guys had a fork stopped in mid air a bunch had drinks half the way to their face and all eys were on him. It was the funnier than heck he had to explain it all over again.

My oldest daughter had this friend, Carl, who used to come over to our rural property to play. Living in the woods, play dates are what it's all about; no real neighborhood.

It all ended when they were about 5 years old, and little Carl mentioned needing new panties to his dad.

-jeff

lol I can understand that. grin!!

I found this video of Saddlesore, Jeff O, and ehunter in elk camp..:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sp9sVReIis

Hey Jim you had to be behind the camara and I think that was Jeff the lead singer in the glasses grin!!! Boy those bos had moves I think Saddlesore all those log tripping trips paid off nice You were really grooving there. LOL

ehunter, nothing like an adult beverage to limber up an old saddlehunter after 8 hours on a horse in rough country..:)
and now you've seen Jeff O at his best after a day's hunting..:)Jim