Ted's elk

The final chapter of the incredible elk hunt that Ted Koch has narrated for the last four days. Remember Ted had been following this bull and his harem of cows when the final moment arrived. “He stops because he sees my movement and he looks at me and flat buried my arrow right into his chest. He waits for a minute. Lifts his antlers up, comes out of his strut like, Huh? And he starts trotting downhill like something might have troubled him.

And I'm like, trying to get my diaphragm out of my mouth a little bit. Yeah. Finally, I let out a cow call.

He stops and swings his head back up. Looks at me. Closes his eyes. Droops his head, turns, starts running downhill just out of sight and crash drops. And I think, what the hell just happened? Oh, gosh, There's a guy sawing a log up there 30 seconds ago and now there's a giant dead bull elk laying right below me. It was incredible. What was the sound effects? Was he challenging you? I never called. He never knew I was there until he saw me draw my bow. So he just got up with the rest of the herd.

It was probably a local vocalization to his cows, like, hey, I'm the bad ass. Yeah, you know, I got you covered. I gonna have sex with you tomorrow. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah. And I got to swing down here and make sure there's no other cows, you know, that I won't have sex with. They're gonna get away from me.

It was so powerful. It was the most powerful, one of the most powerful moments ever.