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Elk citation angers hunter, serves as warning to others

Jim Latvala, a 65-year-old fishing guide from Two Harbors, Minn., shot a six-point bull elk on the opening day of the Montana season. He was hunting with his older brother, 71-year-old Montana resident Warren Latvala, a retired land surveyor who has owned property in the area for 37 years. They were hunting on a neighbor’s land next to Highway 89 south of Clyde Park, close to the Shields River. About 200 yards away, Jim picked the bull out of a herd of roughly 60 elk that had just run across the highway at first light into the field they had staked out.

"It was the first time we actually got to hunt together, and me taking this bull, we were elated, euphoric, in la-la land," Jim Latvala said in a telephone interview.

By Brett French

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/elk-citation-angers-hunter-serves-as-warning-to-others/article_0528c589-8e85-5d00-a2be-df219ebf1d2d.html#ixzz3L1pOJv7R

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