The curse is lifted!!!

c-fbmi said:
Neo..........my nemesis animal with full blown curse was leopard, I spent so many nights in a blind by the time I actually got one......22 years from first try, I was an expert blind sitter. The first lion hunt my PH said he had never sat with a quieter client, it was on this same hunt that I actually bagged my leopard and it was about as big for a leopard as your moose is in moose terms, but after 37 nights in blinds it will do nicely.
You've cracked the dam now, from here on out they will be every where and you will be rewarded every time out, seems to be the way it goes. Congrats !!!
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It's funny how that goes, isn't it? One man's easy riches are another man's endless struggle. Leopard came ridiculously easy for me -- first night in the stand, two hours in. A-Zone was on that hunt as well and that same night (his first in the stand as well) he shot a tom leopard that is now somewhere in the SCI top 20.

Funny thing (and you'll appreciate this) is that the PH I was with (John Sharp) had many years before guided an American gunwriter (Jim Carmichael) on Jim's 21st African safari -- and despite hunting leopard on most of the 20 previous safaris, Jim still hadn't scored. Now *that's* a curse! Jim did get a leopard on that trip, of course, and his story in Outdoor Life ("The Cat Who Came to Dinner") did for John what Ruark's "Horn of the Hunter" did for Harry Selby. There's a business, it seems, in ending curses for folks :)
 
I hope there isn't a family pattern to moose droughts. Like I said my first moose came easy, in fact it was the first day I went moose hunting. My son got his moose in about an hour, and my daughter took perhaps 2 hours and that was with a muzzleloader. Hopefully my losing streak with moose paid the dues for everyone in the family, and it isn't a case of easy early success triggering the moose drought.
 
Neo, and if you've read Hemmingway, his was the greater kudu...........years and years before he finally got a shot at a decent one...........we all have them, how come I have so many is what I want to know. #1 son got the luck in this hunting family for sure, 2 book dall sheep, 2 grizzly over 8 feet, several black bears over 6 1/2 feet with one going over 7, (that's a monster for Yukon BB) several outstanding whitetail, even his reedbuck on his very first hunt with me at 11 years of age positively dwarfs my reedbuck AND he can catch fish where locals will tell you they don't exist.................However........he now has 3 or 4 goat hunts under his belt with none on the wall..........HHHHMMMM.......everybody's got one...........
 
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