Renfrew boy kills 600 pound elk
RENFREW Near the end of October, a borough teenager got the hunting experience of a lifetime.
Cyle Covert, 14, killed a 600 pound bull elk during an 11-day hunting trip in Colorado.
The kill took place at 10,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains about 30 miles east of Gunnison, Colo.
On Oct. 26 at 8 a.m., Cyle Covert was walking in a meadow. He stopped to stretch, and when he turned around, he saw the elk.
“I knew what I had to do. I was just surprised that it came out of nowhere,” Covert said.
Covert grabbed his gun and started trailing the elk.
It took four shots to kill it.
Christopher Covert, his father, said there was about eight inches of snow on the ground and it was about 4 degrees.
Dale Schwartz, Christopher Covert’s friend, and Schwartz’s son, Kevin, also went on the trip.
It took all four of them to carry the elk a mile back to their campsite. When they group got back home, they used the meat.
Kevin Schwartz also killed a female elk on the final day, Christopher Covert said.
Christopher Covert said the main purpose of the trip was so that the boys could have a serious hunting and camping experience.
He praised the two boys’ behavior during the trip.
“The whole time we were there, there was nothing but work,” he said. “We left here with two little boys ... we came back with two young men.”
