Colorado GMU 8 Rumors

[Colorado Cowboy]

I am really fuming! On another website I frequent (not hunting, just shooting) I saw a post that really ticked me off. Let me quote what the writer said in part:
"Seems some of the locals had some extra time on their hands during Labor day and started to hunt a bit early. I gues (sic) they they (sic) decimated a herd they caught a hold of and took some 20-30 bulls and a couple of handfuls of cows too".

He goes on to complain about no wardens and locals stealing the game. The persons posting was a Colorado resident.

I challenged the post with one of my own questioning the authenticity of the post. It just frosts my butt to see someone do something like this that we all know could not be true.There is no way that something like this could have happened. It is just too absurd.

No response from the originator yet. Other shooters who hunt chimed in with the same questions. Can't believe that the poster was just a "troll" because he is a regular.

 

[BrettKoenecke]

Seems improbable, doesn't it? I am headed to 8 for third rifle...more bad news I didn't need.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Seems improbable, doesn't it? I am headed to 8 for third rifle...more bad news I didn't need.

I personally think it pure BS, don't thing it happened. Pretty hard for something like what he says happened without people knowing about it.

 

[wapiti66]

Sounds very unlikely, if he knows about it so do others, and those things wouldn't remain a secret from the law. Also, Im struggling to see a heard with 20-30 bulls in it during labor day.

 

[BrettKoenecke]

Is there any good news coming out of Unit 8 or 7 or even 191?

 

[oneshot]

that seems like way too many bulls. the media would have had a hay day with that. you know those "crazy gun owners"

 

[BrettKoenecke]

Back from 8.

I saw about 100 elk over the 6 days I was there. I saw elk on four days, and did not see elk on two days.
I saw branch antlered bulls on two days but could not close the deal. I saw more elk than the rest of my group did.
I was the oldest, fattest, least in shape hunter in the group.
I am sure there is a point there but will let the younger trimmer fitter hunters decide what that is.

We did not kill a bull but we did trap seven mice, without a license. I didn't sex them but whatever evidence of sex was attached to their carcasses was still there last I saw them.

We had a great trip.

Trying to decide whether to go back there or try the Western Slope, perhaps Wyoming.

 

[SteveCNJ]

Seems improbable, doesn't it? I am headed to 8 for third rifle...more bad news I didn't need.

Food luck!! I'm headed there for 4th rifle.

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[SteveCNJ]

Food luck!! I'm headed there for 4th rifle.

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Obviously Good luck. My thumbs just don't cooperate.

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[ScottR]

Something like that would have generated a call from CPW for tips. Has there been anything like that?

 

[BrettKoenecke]

I thought it was a BS story and still do. I believe what Colorado said about it, but what he was told or what he read was BS.
We went back to 8 in 2014 and had another great trip, more successful that time, just like one would expect when you learn the place better. Tried to go back last year but didn't draw. I would go back to 8.

 

[SteveCNJ]

I am really fuming! On another website I frequent (not hunting, just shooting) I saw a post that really ticked me off. Let me quote what the writer said in part:
"Seems some of the locals had some extra time on their hands during Labor day and started to hunt a bit early. I gues (sic) they they (sic) decimated a herd they caught a hold of and took some 20-30 bulls and a couple of handfuls of cows too".

He goes on to complain about no wardens and locals stealing the game. The persons posting was a Colorado resident.

I challenged the post with one of my own questioning the authenticity of the post. It just frosts my butt to see someone do something like this that we all know could not be true.There is no way that something like this could have happened. It is just too absurd.

No response from the originator yet. Other shooters who hunt chimed in with the same questions. Can't believe that the poster was just a "troll" because he is a regular.

I'm just back from Colorado Unit 8. The locals I met in the Bull Mountain area were all great people. They know what's going on in the area and I doubt any kind of large scale poaching could happen in this area. I didn't score but a buddy shot a 5x5. I may attempt to punish my lungs there again next year.

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[Ikeepitcold]

Seems like he's trying to keep hunters out of the area to me. I call baloney!