Young sportsman snares bobcats
Elias Jirak of Ramona is getting an early start as an outdoorsman. The 7-year-old likes to hunt and fish. He goes fur harvesting with his father, Steve Jirak, in the wintertime.
Elias snared four bobcats this winter. The snares were placed on fences along trails made by the critters.
The bobcats were skinned and the furs dried and sold at a fur auction in Canada. Elias said he and his dad would split the money.
“Elias definitely is a major hunter-of-wildlife kind of kid,” said his mother, Vickie Jirak.
He is a first-grader at Centre Elementary School in Lost Springs.