I’d packed out or helped to pack out a lot of bull elk and bighorn sheep from this Panther River country. They’re the pistol-like reports a bull elk makes when his antlers crash through dead branches while he’s trotting or running. That evening Art stopped at our tent and said, “Clarence, your bull is the biggest elk this country has ever seen. 2 elk on the all-time list, shot by an unknown hunter in 1890, has a total score of 441 6/8. No wonder I could hear branches breaking like pistol shots when that big bull was running toward me.