It was father against son at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's champion of champions bugling competition at Las Vegas.
The contest pitted former elk bugling champs against each other and the final round featured Rocky Jacobsen of Kamiah dueling it out with his son Corey of Boise. Earlier in the evening they had placed second (Corey) and third (Rocky) in the professional division of the foundation's annual bugling contest. The battle of champs was close and came down to two tiebreakers.
"My mom was there and in kind of a hard place. She wanted to cheer for her son and cheer for her husband, knowing she would console whoever didn't win," Corey said. "If there's someone who would beat us we'd rather have it be each other."
It ended being Corey who took the top honors. But the Jacobsens, known as the first family of elk calling, raked in plenty of other honors. Rocky owns Bugling Bull Game Call Co. at Kamiah and he and his children are no strangers to the winner's circle. His daughter, Misty Jacobsen, of Marina, Calif., has won multiple championships and finished first in this year's women's competition. Corey's son Isaac, 10, took first place in the peewee division and 6-year-old Sam, Isaac's brother, made the finals and placed sixth.
Dirk Durham of Moscow finished first in the men's division.
Corey was awarded an archery hunt with Opal Butte Outfitters in Oregon for edging out his father in the champions competition. It will be filmed for Team Elk, the foundation's television program.
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