Tennessee elk hunt: 100 percent success rate

38 °F and Partly Cloudy
Complete Forecast

READ FULL EDITION

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Other Categories

Reservoir Blogs - George Thwaites blogs about fishing, hunting, conservation and outdoors

Published Thursday, October 22 2009 - (0) Comments

Five hunters. Five elk on the ground. And it took exactly two days to do it. Now Tennessee is officially elk hunting country.

Franklin's Tami Miller -- whose husband successfully bid $17,000 on eBay for the tag -- wrapped up Tennessee's first-ever elk hunt when she collected a 5x6 bull Tuesday afternoon.

Miller was one of five hunters who participated in Tennessee's first-ever elk hunt in the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area. Four of the hunters were awarded tags in a statewide drawing. Miller's husband bid $17,000 for the fifth tag in a fundraiser auction held on eBay.

Charles "Chuck" Flynn from the Rockford community in Blount County was confirmed as the first person to legally harvest an elk in Tennessee in almost 150 years. The life-long sportsman harvested a 7X6 elk shortly after 7:30 a.m. that field dressed 520 pounds.

Craig Gardner of Parrottsville harvested a 6x7 bull that field dressed at 620 pounds, Ronald Woodard of Oak Ridge took a 6x6 that field dressed at 720 and Jeff Moses collected a 6x6, the weight of which was unrecorded.

Each hunter was assigned separate hunting territories of approximately 8,000 acres.

Discuss This Story

Be the first to comment: Sign In or Create Profile

To comment, you must register.

Comments are the sole responsibility of the registered user participating in online discussions. You agree not to post comments off topic, abusive, obscene, defamatory, vulgar, threatening or an invasion of privacy. Violators may be banned.

Click here to review our complete user agreement.