I'm hoping for Montana general this year for our group hunt and my usual New Mexico haunts with Colorado 2nd or PLO tag as a possible back up. It'll be interesting to see how Colorado settles out this year for NR's.
I think that depends on the time of the year and the size/makeup of the group. If it's during the rut and there are multiple bulls in the herd I've seen them 5 miles away the next afternoon when we finally caught up to them. They were bugling like crazy in the evening then the next morning not a...
September is approaching it's end and and the last 11 days were pretty special. My wife took her first two elk with a bow and I managed to actually hit one as well. I missed in Wyoming early on and again in New Mexico but connected on one in Colorado. For me personally it was a terrible season...
1) What state(s) are you hunting this year?
Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado
2) How many days are you hunting-
up to 8 in Wyoming then up to 11 in New Mexico and Colorado combined into one trip
3) What percentage chance would you give yourself in filling your tag?
In Wyoming as part of a 4 man...
The impatient me draws my bow, then barks at him with the anticipation he stands up and turns left. The patient me looks at the shade, clouds in the sky, the slope going away from me and anticipates a changing, possibly swirling thermal busting the bull in the next 30 seconds, draws my bow then...
I've always used sand bags in the pack I'm going to be hunting with but you could probably take a cheap sled modify it and strap it to a pack if you wanted to use steel plates for weight.
I don't know what I'm going to make of the 2019 elk season when I look back on it in a few years but for right now it's more like a bad dream that won't go away instead of a memory. After nervously applying as a party with a hunting buddy from Louisiana we drew our first choice first season...
I don't know what I'm going to make of the 2019 elk season when I look back on it in a few years but for right now it's more like a bad dream that won't go away instead of a memory. After nervously applying as a party with a hunting buddy from Louisiana we drew our first choice first season...