dan maule
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Congratulations! and thanks for starting this thread. I really enjoyed reading your hunt updates.
Not Sitting At Home
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Slugz
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As I mentioned I usually just use this spot for cows but those permits now take 2 or 3 points to draw in this unit instead of being on a left over list. I have found that if you just plop your rear down and sit from sunup to sundown for a number of days that a elk will wander through the area. Those elk kind of have a routine on how they travel, it took me a while to figure them out but if you hit it right you will only be there for a day but I have also sat there for almost the whole season before they come through.
It is in a area that people have no idea that there are elk in it but the small herd of around 30 animals do quite well living so close to civilization. This is the first bull that I have taken out of the herd and perhaps it isn't the last.
It is in a area that people have no idea that there are elk in it but the small herd of around 30 animals do quite well living so close to civilization. This is the first bull that I have taken out of the herd and perhaps it isn't the last.
I have a spot like that for a cow hunt also. bulls are a draw hunt but cows are gen season with capped tags.
every time I have had a tag for this hunt it is merely a matter of parking on side of highway, walking up a draw a few hundred yards. and sitting down to wait for daylight and other hunters to push em down the draw. seldom takes more then a couple days to fill a tag.
I should add it generally works best towards end of season. I usually don't bother much with early season unless it has been unusually fowl weather.
when there is snow on the ground I can generally drag the cow whole down the draw to the highway, myself with minimal effort. when there is no snow . I generally just go ahead and quarter it for a short packout .
great hunt when you simply want meat.
every time I have had a tag for this hunt it is merely a matter of parking on side of highway, walking up a draw a few hundred yards. and sitting down to wait for daylight and other hunters to push em down the draw. seldom takes more then a couple days to fill a tag.
I should add it generally works best towards end of season. I usually don't bother much with early season unless it has been unusually fowl weather.
when there is snow on the ground I can generally drag the cow whole down the draw to the highway, myself with minimal effort. when there is no snow . I generally just go ahead and quarter it for a short packout .
great hunt when you simply want meat.
mallardsx2
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This is a really cool buck, based on his face and lack of cuts on his ears he looks pretty young.
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Colorado Cowboy
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Leaving in the morning to scout (again) the units Winchester and I will hunt deer and elk in 4th season. Between seasons and should be pretty calm there now.
Tomorrow is suppose to be a good day with a storm moving in for Wednesday and then good again on Thursday.
Scott, some of his back straps were delicious.
Scott, some of his back straps were delicious.
Colorado Cowboy
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Spent most of the day in the unit Winchester and I are hunting 4th season. Saw a few deer (a couple of bucks) and a few elk. The one thing that struck me is how warm and dry it is. Today the temps were in the 50's, which is really warm for this time of year. Saw a little water in the stock tanks, but really dry. Most of the seep springs I know about are dry too. Rut looks like it is just beginning as the bucks I saw were nosing around the does, but not being aggressive with the does. Unless we get some weather, it could be a tough season. I still have a couple of aces up my sleeve so things may not be all that bad. We'll see.....................
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