Colorado peeps!

dsayer · Sep 6, 2018

Can you feel it???

Hiking into elk camp tomorrow morning. Everyone in the group but me is shooting one of those fandangled unmentionables, but I can't wait to get out there with the boys. We'll hunt through Tuesday morning, take an overnight break in town, then head back in time for a Wednesday evening hunt, and come out on Sunday.

Unless we tag out of course... :rotf:

azmntman · Sep 6, 2018

I FEEL IT :thumbsup:

Just remember, a trophy elk is an elk in the freezer :grin:

Skychief · Sep 6, 2018

I'm feelin' it Drew. No prisoners. :thumbsup:

Good luck, Skychief.

Stumpkiller · Sep 6, 2018

Fellow I work with is leaving in the AM to drive to CO for an elk hunt.

Hope he does well. Last year he ended up with a kidney stone that dropped him and shortened his hunt considerably!

longcruise · Sep 7, 2018

I'm going to go up Saturday afternoon. I have grandsons playing football Friday night and Saturday morning. I'm going alone although two grandsons will come up Saturday night and go home Sunday night.

I have a ml doe tag and either sex archery elk tag so that should keep it busy for a while.

Elkeater · Sep 7, 2018

If I get the horse shoeing done today I should be on my way Sunday or Monday.

longcruise · Sep 8, 2018

Good luck!

Let's post some results when we return.

flinter40 · Sep 19, 2018

Well, I hope I wasn't the only one successful in CO this year. It was definitely hot in CO this year, but I was able to "smoke" this velvet buck with 30ish minutes left of the last day I could hunt. I caught him quartering broadside double lunged at about 90yds.

patched .490 roundball in front of 80gr 3f did the trick thru and thru.

azmntman · Sep 19, 2018

:thumbsup: Nice lil buck for sure! What rifle? How far he go? where ya hit him? I Hope i can do as well in Nov!

Congrats again!

flinter40 · Sep 19, 2018

Thanks...

The rifle I built a few years back is a CVA bobcat barrel with a lock and trigger from an older CVA or Traditions. The stock I shaped from a Dunlap blank and the buttplate and triggerguard were handmade. She's been a dandy in the woods for sure.

I hit him front left shoulder quartering and exited opposite shoulder breaking it and deflating both lungs. I was shocked he went 200yds with heavy track and good blood.

good luck on your hunt!

VJM · Sep 19, 2018

Nice buck, congratulations!

Hot, dry and windy made it pretty rough this year for sure.

jrmflintlock · Sep 19, 2018

Tsaah Wookkuh!!
Good Job !! - Comanche

I sure wish I could have been there Brothers!!

Tallswife · Sep 21, 2018

Well, it was a bust for me this year.

Too dang hot and they were way up between 12-14K'. I just cant breath that high.

They did taunt us on our way home, found a heard of 50 of them on private hay ground. They wagged their butts at us. Stinkers.

Congrats to all who brought home meat for the freezer! Good job!

longcruise · Sep 22, 2018

Nice deer, congratulations on a good ending to your hunt. :hatsoff:

Now, as for me, I had a doe tag and four days to hunt. We had a great time with a nice camp along a pretty stream.

I had four excellent opportunities and passed on the first three. As I get older I'm less and less motivated to kill a deer. No, not turning into a softy, just don't like to spoil a good hunting trip with a dead deer. :haha:

On the fourth opportunity I had a doe at 15 yards in thick second growth lodgepoles. The hammer was back, rifle shouldered and sights settling in.... Then the deer appeared to grow a set of ears at her behind! There was a second deer standing right behind her. I lowered the rifle and a moment later both took off in opposite directions. I briefly tracked one but visibility was so poor in the thick stuff that an alerted deer was not going to offer a second opportunity.

Was perfectly happy to abandon the chase and start contemplating breakfast. :grin:

Steve Bertram · Sep 22, 2018

I posted pics is percussion rifles too. Took him after a nice long walk opening morning with a 14 bore William Moore two groove rifle, 90 grains of 2F, a lubed wonder wad and a hard cast patched belted ball did the job. Great hunt!

longcruise · Sep 22, 2018

Nice deer, Steve. :thumbsup:

Do I know you from any of the CSMLA shoots?

Steve Bertram · Sep 23, 2018

I have never made a ML shoot. I stay way too busy with work and spend most of my free time hunting. Every year I say I should shoot more but just seem to never have the time. My other passions besides percussion rifles are bird hunting with my two Springer Spaniels and hunting with single shot rifles.
Steve

longcruise · Sep 24, 2018

The Ft Lupton club has several shoots per month. One paper and one "fun" shoot. Not too far from Boulder. Very low key and good company. You don't have to be a member to shoot.

Here's a link to the club site.
http://www.flmlc.org/

Tallswife · Sep 25, 2018

marmotslayer said:
The Ft Lupton club has several shoots per month. One paper and one "fun" shoot. Not too far from Boulder. Very low key and good company. You don't have to be a member to shoot.

Here's a link to the club site.
http://www.flmlc.org/[/quote]

And the Colonial Encampment is coming up in less than two weeks at the same place. Plus we will be shooting!

The info for the encampment is above in the events forum

dsayer · Sep 27, 2018

Nice buck and cool be was still in velvet. We saw a number of great bucks in our area this year but nobody had a deer tag. Won't be making that mistake again...

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