Around Campfire

[bowhuntaz1]

Lark, GameHualer,Amanda,Willhunt4coues,Chef, and 25-o6,Ernesto C, joeybari to name a few

 

My dad and brother-in-law

[Browning'sCustomMeat]

and Mr. Quimby of course.

 

I have a lot more people on here I would like to sit around a fire with...I may just have to make it to the CWT Get-together this year!!

[DUG]

I'm a 1st generation hunter in my family. I hope my grandkids would want to hear my stories because my kids have already heard them. I would like to be around a campfire with Jack O'Connor and Lee and Tiffany.

[FlyingW]

There is many individuals I would like to hear stories from and hopefully someday I will . Two for sure would be Bill Quimby and a legend from our area the late Lamell Ellsworth...

[.270]

Lamell the legend was a real good friend o' mine. some o' the funniest stories i ever heard, he told me. the not so dead bobcat, him and elro and the lion in the cave and the beaver in the ditch made me cry when he told em. when Lamell died, Elro did the life story at his funeral. i never laughed so hard in my life at a funeral. every day was an adventure for those two. it's a good thing showlow was a dinky place when they were kids, or they'da probly burned half of it down. Lark.

[willhunt4coues]

I would love to by the fire with Tiffany and no Lee or anyone else.

 

In all seriousness I would have to say everyone here at coueswhitetail I would be happy to here all the stories and highlights of there favorite hunts.

[FlyingW]

Lamell the legend was a real good friend o' mine. some o' the funniest stories i ever heard, he told me. the not so dead bobcat, him and elro and the lion in the cave and the beaver in the ditch made me cry when he told em. when Lamell died, Elro did the life story at his funeral. i never laughed so hard in my life at a funeral. every day was an adventure for those two. it's a good thing showlow was a dinky place when they were kids, or they'da probly burned half of it down. Lark.

 

You're a lucky man Lark !!! Not only did you probably learn a thing or two from them both, but you have a ton of fond memories of the old days...

[arizonaelitefreak]

While sitting around the campfire last week-end we were discussing who we would like to have sitting around the same campfire with (local guys) to listen to their hunting experiences / stories. I thought this might be interesting to see who you all say.

 

I said Nathan Ellison. I have never met him but I can only imagine some of the stories he could tell. Another name that came up was Randy Epperson.

 

What about you guys?

Nathan is a great guy and has some awesome stories, have never hunted with him but know the family real well, great adition around the camp fire

[.270]

Lamell was the dictionary, encyclopedia, bible and constitution of hunting. like me, anything he didn't know didn't need to be knowed anyway. he killed Az's big 10 with a .30/30 and no hounds. i think one of his bucks is still the #2 typical in Az. he has one nontypical muley that scores in the 260's. he has 8 pronghorns over 16". killed half a dozen lions with no hounds. either called em in, waited on a kill or found a hot track and tracked em down. killed more big bears than anybody i know. again, no hounds. caught more big trout than anybody in this state ever thought about and his favorite method was an 18 foot cane pole and one salmon egg and 2 pound line. plum comical to watch him land an 8 pound rainbow with 2 pound line. if you left on a good horse and led another one, he'd walk em both in the dirt and you'd be leadin' em a mile back before the day was over. no, lucky ain't the word for it. i'm just naturally lucky, or maybe it's just cuz i'm so smart and i call it luck. i was blessed and privledged to know Lamell Ellsworth. didn't realize what an honor it was at the time. he had a stroke shortly after i moved to the valley and was in a wheelchair til he died. i was down here alone at the time and the rehab place he was in wasn't too far from where i was holed up at so i'd go by most nights and visit until he couldn't stay awake anymore. he lost, or misplaced, a lot of his memory right after the stroke, but he remembered the outdoors. he got it all back after awhile, but he never misplaced the huntin' stories. his name must be in the Az. record book a dozen times. heck, now i'm gonna hafta go outside awhile so's nobody can see me cryin'. dang, i miss that feller. Lark.

[LCconvert]

Bill Quimby would be great but my first choice would be my father and grandfather...sorry Bill. They are both still alive but no longer get out. They both hunted Arizona in a different day and age than we do today. My grandpa is 94 and grew up hunting coues, and the occasional lion, on Mt Graham. Those must of been some wonderful times...

[CouesWhitetail]

Lamell was the dictionary, encyclopedia, bible and constitution of hunting. like me, anything he didn't know didn't need to be knowed anyway. he killed Az's big 10 with a .30/30 and no hounds. i think one of his bucks is still the #2 typical in Az. he has one nontypical muley that scores in the 260's. he has 8 pronghorns over 16". killed half a dozen lions with no hounds. either called em in, waited on a kill or found a hot track and tracked em down. killed more big bears than anybody i know. again, no hounds. caught more big trout than anybody in this state ever thought about and his favorite method was an 18 foot cane pole and one salmon egg and 2 pound line. plum comical to watch him land an 8 pound rainbow with 2 pound line. if you left on a good horse and led another one, he'd walk em both in the dirt and you'd be leadin' em a mile back before the day was over. no, lucky ain't the word for it. i'm just naturally lucky, or maybe it's just cuz i'm so smart and i call it luck. i was blessed and privledged to know Lamell Ellsworth. didn't realize what an honor it was at the time. he had a stroke shortly after i moved to the valley and was in a wheelchair til he died. i was down here alone at the time and the rehab place he was in wasn't too far from where i was holed up at so i'd go by most nights and visit until he couldn't stay awake anymore. he lost, or misplaced, a lot of his memory right after the stroke, but he remembered the outdoors. he got it all back after awhile, but he never misplaced the huntin' stories. his name must be in the Az. record book a dozen times. heck, now i'm gonna hafta go outside awhile so's nobody can see me cryin'. dang, i miss that feller. Lark.

 

 

Why don't you do a memorial post for him in the Memorial section of the forum. Post up some pics of him and tell some more stories. He sounds awesome!! You are indeed lucky to have spent so much time with him.

 

Amanda

 

[FlyingW]

Lamell was the dictionary, encyclopedia, bible and constitution of hunting. like me, anything he didn't know didn't need to be knowed anyway. he killed Az's big 10 with a .30/30 and no hounds. i think one of his bucks is still the #2 typical in Az. he has one nontypical muley that scores in the 260's. he has 8 pronghorns over 16". killed half a dozen lions with no hounds. either called em in, waited on a kill or found a hot track and tracked em down. killed more big bears than anybody i know. again, no hounds. caught more big trout than anybody in this state ever thought about and his favorite method was an 18 foot cane pole and one salmon egg and 2 pound line. plum comical to watch him land an 8 pound rainbow with 2 pound line. if you left on a good horse and led another one, he'd walk em both in the dirt and you'd be leadin' em a mile back before the day was over. no, lucky ain't the word for it. i'm just naturally lucky, or maybe it's just cuz i'm so smart and i call it luck. i was blessed and privledged to know Lamell Ellsworth. didn't realize what an honor it was at the time. he had a stroke shortly after i moved to the valley and was in a wheelchair til he died. i was down here alone at the time and the rehab place he was in wasn't too far from where i was holed up at so i'd go by most nights and visit until he couldn't stay awake anymore. he lost, or misplaced, a lot of his memory right after the stroke, but he remembered the outdoors. he got it all back after awhile, but he never misplaced the huntin' stories. his name must be in the Az. record book a dozen times. heck, now i'm gonna hafta go outside awhile so's nobody can see me cryin'. dang, i miss that feller. Lark.

 

 

Why don't you do a memorial post for him in the Memorial section of the forum. Post up some pics of him and tell some more stories. He sounds awesome!! You are indeed lucky to have spent so much time with him.

 

Amanda

That would be really cool !!! There is a lot of the younger hunters out there who have probably never heard of Lamell Ellsworth . He and others like him imo were the true hunters . They used plain old smarts and probably a little luck to harvest the animals they did. There was no high tech bows,rifles, laser range finders or trail cams back then . It was pounding the ground for days on end, understanding the aminals habits they were pursuing and following their sign. I can recall more than one story where these individuals slept under the stars and tracked their quarry for several days before finally harvesting them. Im amazed every time I hear tale of Lamell and others like him and only hope someday I can be half the hunter they were !!!

[mike hunt]

Randy Ulmer,D.Adams Peter Capstick Camron Hanes,Jack Oconner Ryan peters

[Rembrant]

I'll see Otis Baker in Heaven, so for now - Dean Dunnaway.

Mike

[az4life]

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In all seriousness I would have to say everyone here at coueswhitetail I would be happy to here all the stories and highlights of there favorite hunts.

 

Agreed. Just a Bunch of good ol' folks on this site!