Damn, if you're gonna call someone an embarrassment and put it in all caps, at least spell it right. This forum has spell check, how do these things happen?
For rec.gov river permits, of course... Believe it is midnight mountain time.
Got mine in for San Juan, deso/gray, middle salmon, yampa/gates of lodore.
Got my first, a cow, this year. Fifth year, fifth tag, hunted every day of each season (until this one), but they're short Colorado rifle seasons. Hadn't ever hunted before that first otc bull tag, and no mentor, so it has been a steep learning curve.
After I got the trim, neck, quarters, backstraps, and tenderloins and moved it all a few hundred yards and hung it in a tree, it was 6:30, just after sunset. Yes, I’m a slow butcher. I brilliantly decided that I’d carry my rifle, all my day-hunting gear, a rear quarter, and the backstraps and...
Not wanting to bump them again with the shifty winds, I backtracked to the bottom of the meadow to investigate the other bugling I had heard that morning. Wandered for a while, didn’t find anything exciting, so around 10:30 I decided to head back towards the other side of the basin where I...
In the meantime, I talked a lot of elk hunting with my new boss, who knows the unit and elk in general way better than I likely ever will. Amongst other advice, he pitched me on checking out a different, closer-to-home section of the unit. While there would surely be hunters, he thought the...
Apologies for the long-windedness, but I don’t contribute much so gotta share sometime!
My career as a hunter started when my wife and I moved to Southwest CO in the fall of 2019. I had no job, and decided somewhat randomly that I should try to contribute to the household by getting us an elk...
I did get a 76 rifle tag! ...cow second rifle, but hey, when you're 0/4 lifetime on elk, that seems like a pretty good chance. Just around the (long) corner for me in Bayfield, so I'll be able to get up there a time or two to scout.