When I was in Kentucky elk hunting, we had a fire in camp all the time. One night we came back to camp and my dad said that he thought there was a bear in the creek behind camp nosing around. He said that right at dark, he started cooking supper and he started hearing splashing and cracking right behind the tent. He just kept cooking and didn't think much of it, but we cautiously walked behind the tent with flashlights and much to our surprise, there was a bull elk tangled in the saplings less than 30 yards behind our wall tent! Apparently the bull had gotten his antlers entangled in a long piece of coaxial TV cable, which became entangled with a dead tree, then wrapped around a cluster of standing trees. The bull was effectively tied to a tree 30 yards from where we had slept for a week, while I had been hunting far and wide with out so much as a bull sighting!!! Long story short, the DNR came the next morning while I was out hunting and shot the bull, took the antlers, which had been broken at the base from the twisting of the cable tighter and tighter, and told us we could have the meat. Although the bull was only 30 yards away initially, when they moved close to shoot it, it uprooted the trees it was tangled in, and ran straight up hill about 2-3 hundred yards, so we had to quarter and pack the bull back to camp! I ended up getting a dandy bull 2 days later, so we got to bring home 2 elk for the freezer! Definitely one of the strangest things that has ever happened to me while on a hunt!
