Neda Herman started hunting at 15 and has been on countless elk hunts in Colorado and Wyoming. At age 83, she said this year’s opening day hunt was one of the best she’s ever had.

“It was the quickest one in terms of getting the elk in,” she told Cowboy State Daily.

She and her son, Todd Herman, hit a trailhead in the Bighorn Mountains on horseback at 6:15 a.m. on Oct. 1. She shot a cow elk at first daylight and they had it quartered and packed out by about noon.

“It was wonderful, I didn’t have to stay up there for two more days, camping in the cold,” said Neda, who lives in Basin.

‘One Little Horse Wreck’

Todd, who lives in Lovell, said he was nervous about taking his mother out on a horseback hunt at her age. But he knows just how determined she is.

“I was a little bit worried abo

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