Whatever sweet nothings they were calling out obviously must have worked. "I just cow call once I locate the bull."ĭoing just that, Harber and his guide, Sam Diswood, tried to lure in the lovesick elk over a period of about 45 minutes. Because if you keep bugling, a big bull has got cows and most of the time they'll just move away from you. "Once you locate him, just put the bugle in your backpack. "I've found out over the years that you only use your bugle when you're trying to locate the bull," Harber said. While most bowhunters would have tried to out duel the elk in a bugling contest, Harber is a big believer in doing just the opposite. And after about three sets of calls, I got a bugle that answered me." "I had a Hoochie Mama call and I started calling. "About three-quarters of a mile away, I heard some cows mewing, talking among themselves," Harber said. That's when the hunter's wapiti fortunes began to change. "I was hunting the third day, but I hadn't heard many bugles," Harber admitted. 458 caliber rifle elk hunting remains his greatest archery passion.īut despite a number of bow-killed elk under his belt, including some big bulls scoring well into the upper 300s, nothing could have prepared the Texas archer for the wapiti he did battle with a week ago in the Land of Enchantment. While Harber has taken a variety of dangerous game with his bow a charging water buffalo from Australia had to be felled at six feet by Harber's hunting guides toting a. That's when I started bowhunting and I've been bowhunting every since." "I took up a Bear Kodiak recurve in 1958. These days, however, with the exception of hunting upland birds and waterfowl with a shotgun, all of Harber's hunting adventures take place by way of the stick and string. He and his wife, Dorothy, show off what could be the new non-typical New Mexico archery-record elk. Hunting enthusiasts like Harber are anticipating an autumn of big antlers across the West this Harber should know, having started his hunting career as a farm boy with a. "Hunting elk when they're bugling with a bow is a challenging and exciting hunt, and I love that above all other hunts." "This was my most exciting hunt ever," Harber said. Taped by Safari Club International scorer James Torivio Jr., the 7½-year-old bull weighed an estimated 1,100 pounds and boasts an SCI score of 411 4/8 inches as a typical and 425 2/8 inches as a non-typical. 7, is a staggering wapiti with a massive 7圆 main frame, complete with five abnormal kicker points. The bull, taken on the 550,000-acre Acoma Indian Reservation near Grants, N.M., on Sept. That's when the 69-year-old archer pulled his compound bow back and unleashed a Muzzy-tipped arrow at what may prove to be the biggest non-typical elk ever taken with a bow in the state of New Mexico. The take? That has come on Harber's many globetrotting bowhunting adventures with his wife, Dorothy, for species ranging from the bongo and the leopard to the musk ox and the whitetail deer.īut in a lifetime of hunting from the sultry savannah of Africa to the windswept mountains straddling the border of China and the old Soviet Union to the frigid tundra above the Arctic Circle, what happened to Lacy last week may end up topping it all. In fact, after some childhood health problems, none of those worthy causes have captured his attention more than the famed Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, a place where Harber plans to leave nearly all of a vast financial estate. The give? That's thanks to Harber's generous contributions to charities, wildlife conservation groups and philanthropic causes that have caught the Denison, Texas, resident's attention and heart down through the years. DENISON, Texas For Lone Star State bowhunter Lacy Harber, life has been a grand adventure of give and take.
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