2018 Hunt Update Thread
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tiberiuswade
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- Sep 5, 2018
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Colorado rush
How did your hint go in/near Alamosa? I hunt in Salida area public. You hear anything see
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How did your hint go in/near Alamosa? I hunt in Salida area public. You hear anything see
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cohunter14
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Got to camp Sunday afternoon and have put 14 1/2 miles on so far. It is HOT here in Colorado! No luck yet, but we?ll keep after it.
colorado russ
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Tiberiuswade, it's been up and down here. Rut just now starting to kick off but hotter than hades during the day. Was able to overcome and fill my tag this morning(5th day). I "cheat" and hunt private with rifle during Sept. Could use bow but opted not to given the conditions and trail camera activity or lack thereof.
Best of luck Derek!!
Best of luck Derek!!
tiberiuswade
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- Sep 5, 2018
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Keep it up Chunter, looks into high meadows if hot down low. Also drainage it cool down into them.cohunter14 said:
Got fingers X 4u
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Spent ten days helping a friend with a Wasatch tag. Pretty tough hunt with early dates, exceptionally windy towards the end of the season, and lots of pressure for a le tag. That being said we saw 6 points almost daily. Had a couple of heart breaking close encounters that we only needed a few more yards. One was a 330 type 6x7 walk 400 yards in sage brush only to drink at 72 yards quartering to, and not come to a wallow we set up for. I'll get the video online at some point. Another 350 7x7 that his cows busted us while he waited above about 80 yards out. Couple of amazing scenes that will haunt us the rest of our days.
cohunter14
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Well, we found some elk. Spotted a couple cows early this morning and I got to a good glassing point and found one of them bedded about 650 yards away. A couple of our guys tried to sneak in and all of a sudden a whole herd showed up. I saw a bunch of them but didn?t get eyes on the herd bull. Evidently he was a brute. Unfortunately they bumped them without getting a shot even though they were within 30 yards. Too many trees in the way even to take a cow. Hopefully we?ll get on them again!
Here?s a couple pics I got, one of the bedded cow through my binocs and then two cows who moved down the hill.
Here?s a couple pics I got, one of the bedded cow through my binocs and then two cows who moved down the hill.
colorado russ
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They needed to send you in!! Best of luck.
Picking up my elk from the processor in the morning then 10 hour drive home.
Picking up my elk from the processor in the morning then 10 hour drive home.
Just got back from my trip to San Juan?s. First trip and solo. Met a nice guy who had hunted the area for 20+ years. We ended of chatting and he I invited to show me around the area. Had a great time, bushwhacked and sidehilled a lot. Got into some of the deepest, darkest, coldest jungle on the mountain and say fresh beds. Saw lots of rubs, fresh sign/rubs, and tracks. Only heard on bugle each day at 6:40-6:50. Never saw elk but I know they are in there. I now have the knowledge to hunt the area and know what it looks like aside from google maps, and I can tell you I will be back next year!
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I?ve been home for about a week after 13 days in SW Colorado. We hunted aug. 29 thru Sept. 12. It was very dry almost everywhere although we did get some afternoon thundershowers except for three days. We were in elk almost daily but they didn?t get vocal until the 10th when we got our first return bugle. The first week we had young bulls sparing at 85yrds but couldn?t get them any closer. Any calling made them run away. Spot and stalk was very difficult as we were walking on potato chips most of the time. An hour before dark on the 11th we had a buglefest going with two of us bugling and three different bulls on the ridge in front of us bugleing back and then a fourth bull chiming in from across the other side of the canyon. This is the first time I have hunted in Sept rut so for me it was incredibly exciting! We were back on that same ridge at first light. And what we thought was the herd bull was still fired up but wouldn?t come all the way out to play. After trying all morning to get him to move we decided to wait for evening. At 4:30 we just relaxing with some trail mix when a bull bulged from less than a hundred yards. Two of grabbed bows and found shooting lanes while the third ran down the hill and called. In less than two mins the bull came in to 26yds from my brother and 36 for me. My brothers lane had a few branches in the way while I had a quarting to shot that was very low percentage. We couldn?t believe it came in as the wind was perfectly wrong and he finally winded us and slowly walked back up the slope. Later that ev
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Later that evening we decided to get more aggressive and went straight to the top after him with me calling from just off the ridge and Al was able get a good shot. He got a nice 6x6 for our efforts.
In a previous message before the season I posted that my criteria for success was being able to call in a bull and I got to do that for the first time at 63yrs old. I?m totally hooked now and bummed I have to wait eleven and half months to do it again.
I will post pics as soon as I figure out how.
Later that evening we decided to get more aggressive and went straight to the top after him with me calling from just off the ridge and Al was able get a good shot. He got a nice 6x6 for our efforts.
In a previous message before the season I posted that my criteria for success was being able to call in a bull and I got to do that for the first time at 63yrs old. I?m totally hooked now and bummed I have to wait eleven and half months to do it again.
I will post pics as soon as I figure out how.
cohunter14
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- Jul 10, 2017
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Awesome hawker! Great story and congrats on the success you guys had :upthumb:
Finished the bow season empty handed, had my dad in town for the past week and he tried to join me on the hunt, but just cant keep up in the thin air. So i set aside my hunting quest and did some fishing with the old man.
We each caught nice brown trout on the colorado river, and my dad pulled a nice 18 to 20 inch laker out of williams fork res from shore, so he now has some good stories to go home and tell his friends and brothers during happy hour
My dad also lost a big brown on the colorado, and it has already been dubbed "Moby Dick" and had talks of another trip next year to redeem himself
All and all a good bow season even without filling the tag
We each caught nice brown trout on the colorado river, and my dad pulled a nice 18 to 20 inch laker out of williams fork res from shore, so he now has some good stories to go home and tell his friends and brothers during happy hour
My dad also lost a big brown on the colorado, and it has already been dubbed "Moby Dick" and had talks of another trip next year to redeem himself
All and all a good bow season even without filling the tag
cohunter14
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I'm back from my trip as well. Hunted hard for seven days and put a little over 43 miles on the boots, but unfortunately was unable to punch the tag. We saw or heard elk all but one day, but the stars just never aligned. With me having a rifle hunting background, I laugh a little bit as we would have filled two or three tags fairly easy if we were rifle hunting. That's part of the fun though!
Now it's time to prep for the rifle season here in Colorado. Leave for that in 25 days :upthumb:
Now it's time to prep for the rifle season here in Colorado. Leave for that in 25 days :upthumb:
publichunter1
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cohunter14: Sorry to hear you didn't fill any tags but sounds like you had a good time. We filled tags but only heard one bugle on public land all week.
