Recent content by ProfJ
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Starting Late in Life
I strongly support your plan for starting in your backyard GMU. It makes a massive difference if you know the terrain, even as a hiker. A middle-of-the-range GMU that you know well, is a much better proposition than a stellar GMU where you don't even know the roads. It's also nice to sleep in... -
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So you want to go west? A newbies guide for newbies.
I think what the Youtube experts don't prepare you for (I saw someone call them "the whispering idiots", wish I had said that), is just how hard it is to find elk. For your first few hunts, it can seem entirely futile, miles and days of trudging through empty woods. There seems to be a myth...- ProfJ
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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1st Rifle Elk Colorado question
2022 was not a typical year, especially 1st Season. Almost no-one I know connected, none of the herds were in their usual spots. I finally found some above treeline on the last day, got my stepson into a shooting position, but he rushed and missed - still a great day. I wonder if this may...
