2009 was tough on us, on the archery elk hunt. Both Mike and Chris had great tags and hunted the whole two weeks. Chris shot a nice bull with his Mathews Swtichback XT and Shuttle T-Lock broadheads, and did it on the second to the last day of the hunt. Where we hunted there was not a lot of intense rutting, more like the bulls had a relaxed hunt. We videoed only one broken bull by the end of the hunt. Mike waited and waited, and tried to get on one really good 7×7 bull. We saw him, took some video of him at a distance but never got close enough for a shot. We did get some great video of bulls, mostly on water, some of those hunting shots for our DVDs are going to have to be Mike’s trophy this year.

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When he is not guiding on bear hunts Dave works real hard on his own bow hunting. This year he did a heck of a job on his Caribou and Moose hunts. His Moose and Caribou will both go high in the Pope and Young record books. One of these days we will finish our Moose hunting project with a new DVD and Dave is working on finishing it a lot sooner.

The McClendon family had a great time bow hunting for mule deer hunt this year. Travis and Levi shot really nice bucks using their new Mathew’s Reezen bows. These guys combined the new bows with their Shuttle T-Lock broadheads for two shots and two great bucks. They will bring the whole hunting story with more pictures soon.