First muzzleloading elk hunt...

[YampaValleyMountainMan]

OK, this is it!
I'm down to the one week mark before my first muzzleloader elk hunt in Colorado. I've killed my fair share of whitetail with a muzzleloader over the years, but that was back east on my family farm before I moved to Colorado 20 years ago.
I've taken eight elk, but all with a bow. I'm a seasoned and experienced elk hunter, but wanted to reach out to the collective to get any suggestions, or tricks of the trade, for muzzleloading for elk that anyone might have to offer.
I'm hunting with a T/C Hawken, percussion, 54 caliber with a round ball in southern Colorado.

 

[Dave Marsh]

I hope you are using real black powder. Other than that, I think you are all set having killed them with a bow.

 

[longcruise]

Pretty much the same as bow hunting. When I have hunted them in first rifle even though the rut is winding down the bulls are still excited at the idea of finding an estrus cow and can be really stupid over an in heat cow call.