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Oklahoma Station Safari Trails – May 2011

DAY 18

I am sorry that it rains throughout the entire night and it dawns a gray leaden day that discourages us from getting up…but we have come to hunt.

The morning fog prevents visibility, and we return soon without seeing anything that moves. In the evening it clears, and we climb to a high spot to wait for a possible movement, but only a Caribou dares to give us the welcome. Only we see several females but no male. A few days ago we have seen females and males together, but not today.

DAY 19

We go to hunt this morning on the opposite side of the valley. Two hours on horseback takes us to the beginning of a mountain range that should be good for hunting…small hills with big clearings that would allow us a perfect pursuit.

The cold wind forces us to shelter in a dense spot, and after three hours seeing no game we decide to light a fire and to have lunch by means of roast sausages. Two hours more without seeing anything and we return to the camp. I suggest that we change areas, but the guide insists that here is the best for the moose and that we should stay. I agree, but I will only give to him one more day…the days are passing, and the moose does not appear.

DAY 20

More of the same. At about 11 AM I refuse to continue there. I remember the moose that I saw during the previous hunts, and reluctantly Pirls promises me that if this evening we do not see anything then tomorrow we will return to the base camp, and from there go to a different area.

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