Colorado unit #74

[cptleo1]

I have been offered a chance to Elk hunt this unit

I am thinking it might be a good way to break in

the new .62 Jaeger.

Any info on this unit would be a big help.

Thanks

 

[BRUN]

Unit 74 is steep,no realy steep country.Plenty elk in ML season.Some good bulls also.What kind of shape are you in?Are you willin climb?

 

[BRUN]

Are you getting a draw license for that unit?

 

[Greenmtnboy]

Unit 74 is steep,no realy steep country.Plenty elk in ML season.Some good bulls also.What kind of shape are you in?Are you willin climb?

yup, If your not in real shape don't bother hunting in unit 74.
call me if you need help packin' it out.
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Bruin just got my new big game brosure and have eight elk pref points, where do you think I should apply, Am thinking the baca next to Crestone, I antler pick there every year and score many rack in the 350 to 400 range.
flintlock time

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[Ethan]

I have hunted elk and snowshoe hare in that unit with my flintlocks for the last 5 years. Brun's observations are correct. Elk are scattered and most have moved well away from trails and roads by ML season. Be very fit. Be utterly dedicated. Find a herd before the season starts and know their kitchen and bedroom. Hunt hard between the two. You will have little daylight with which to work when they are not bedded.

Best of luck.

 

[BRUN]

Is that unit 69 and 84?

 

[BRUN]

I have hunted elk and snowshoe hare in that unit with my flintlocks for the last 5 years. Brun's observations are correct. Elk are scattered and most have moved well away from trails and roads by ML season. Be very fit. Be utterly dedicated. Find a herd before the season starts and know their kitchen and bedroom. Hunt hard between the two. You will have little daylight with which to work when they are not bedded.

Best of luck.

You are absolutly right.You gotta watch them and see where they are moving.I sit somewhere where I can see a big area like on a ridge over looking a canyon then glass.Archery hunters really move them around.A freind saw a huge bull in that unit last year but didnt get a shot.Now he has to wait till next year to get another ML license.
cptleo if you are in moderate shape you can hunt in this area.There are closed logging roads that offer some fairly decent walkin,but the elk are likely to be high.I would suggest you walk the ridges if you cant drop off into a hell hole canyon.Some forest roads go up pretty high so you can access these ridges.Do you know someone down here you are going to hunt with and that knows the country?

 

[Greenmtnboy]

Hay Bruin I'm not exactly sure :hmm:
I knew last fall when I took a buddy down there to hunt 4th season. Oh waite unit 84.
I bought five acers in Crestone years ago and it borders the 150 mile square Spanish land grant at the base of the Sangras. The land grant was sold to the public and is now open to hunting.
access is tricky, but oh my god I don't think my cabin is big enough for some of the racks those bulls carry, No pressure and easy winters have created quite a heard, I have sat on the hill side glassing down on them ans have seen as many as a thousand or more elk in one heard.
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[BRUN]

Id go for it!There is a unit in the northwest part of the state that some freinds got some huge bulls in.Im thinkin Rick Shroeder the actor has a ranch in that unit.It takes several points to get the tag.

 

[BrownBear]

I haven't hunted 74, but I've hiked in there a couple of times. Saying it's steep doesn't mean much till you see it. Hiking was doable, but making several trips with 100+ pounds of elk meat on my back would be another matter. I'm not too proud to admit that I'm just too darned old and beat up to hunt there without a pack string to bring out the meat.

 

[Greenmtnboy]

Not sure the unit that Rickie's ranch is in but i know it is west of Grand Junction out side of Frutia, I actually guided in AK with a kid who babysits some of Rickie's friends during elk season.
Yup going home to night and sit down and fill out lets see between me, my wife my mom and all my returning clients I think some were around 10 or fifteen tags. I do all the paper work so they don't have to, I guess our big game brochure is written in greek to most folks, :haha: Hay also check it out they are really increasing fees and if you want to just get a preference point and don't want to hunt it's gonna cost ya 25.00 :cursing:
I think our DOW is gettin a bit greedy :bull:
I am a little suspicious of that habitate stamp.
I am a ferm belevier in conservation but let me decide where I want my money to go, I trust my money with the RMEF over the DOW anyday.

Back to unit 74, Thats between red MT pass to the north and Durango to the south, When I first moved to CO in 1988 I worked on a trail crew in that unit very beautful very rugged, Mules and a guide I highly reconmend.
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[cptleo1]

Well I looked at some TOPO maps and some ariel photos.

Checked the GPS agianst the map.

Base camp = 10280 elevation.

Seems to me when Elk are hit they run down hill !

Looked at my big belly and my grey hair - NOPE

there is just no way.

I have heard that in Oregon there are places they hunt Elk much like deer - out of tree stands-

Lets see what Google has to say.

 

[BRUN]

Some places in Oregon are just as bad.If your thinkin about huntin in Oregon and want to avoud the rough stuff stay away from the north east part of the state.The elevation isnt as high as Colorado but some of the holes are just as steep and just as deep.The areas like Minam canyon,Janes ridge,Coon ridge, Day ridge,and Grouse creek are bad.Even Hat point in the Snake river unit is bad.My cousin shot a bull in pumpkin creek.After we got through the blow down to it some a-hole was tryin to claim it.

 

[Hoyt]

I elk hunted in Idaho's Sellway Bitterroot Wilderness area back in the early 80's and I thought I was in shape till I got in those rugged mountains. It was a trip to remember..we rented about 10 horses and the one I had wanted to jump all the creeks and tried to buck me off a few times.
I think Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have more subtle terrian in which to elk hunt.
I know they hunt the wallows in parts of the San Juan Wilderness in Utah using tree stands during archery.

 

[Les H]

I have hunted 74 on a fairly regular basis since the late 80's. Most of the unit is very steep and high. I have mainly hunt during archery season now and the elk tend to be very high (11000 feet) in September. The Muzzle loader season starts about mid September. There are a good number of elk there but you have to work for them as in well away from the road. Year before last I called in three bulls in 45 minutes on the first afternoon. If your going during muzzle loader season this year I will be one of the bow hunters movin' them around before you get there. Beautiful country