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Solo Elk Hunt in Colorado: Am I About to Embark on a Glorious Disaster?
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Pennsylvania Possie
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That’s the plan. Your probably a rancher that pulls in suckers to pay and hunt your ranch
Husband and I fill our freezer with elk every year on public. But yeah...it sucks....don't come here....there are no elk! Also, there's no more snow - so no need to drive I70 to ski anymore either. The rock climbing is sub par too, best just go to Yosemite. Craft beer? Also on the outs.
RidgeRunner76
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What does that really have to do with anything? I have friends travel in every fall farther than that. They do just fine. They just killed 3 bulls and 4 cows off the White River units. Arguably the most hunter dense area of the state.
Yall are right. CO has no elk. The hunting sucks. All of us locals are unacommadating and hostile.
I'd opt for hunting elk elsewhere.
We smell too. Also, we're ugly! Hotter people in Montana forsure, everyone up there looks like the cast of Yellowstone. I'd go there!
RidgeRunner76
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If you're talking about my mentioning the WR area, it encompasses so many units and more land than you'll probably hunt in a decade. Nothing about those units are a secret. Hasn't been since the 80s or longer
elkduds
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Not sure why the vitriol directed at me. It was literally a "why argue online" joke. Agree, very difficult to come in cold and have success, that's no secret. So why argue online about how good or bad the hunting is? Didn't hear you or PP asking for advice.
RidgeRunner76
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I've never had the privilege of meeting or talking to Oak, yet.
I get that its hard. Especially cold. Plenty of us locals have the same issues. Work, life, kids, and a multitude of other obligations that limit our time afield. It happens despite residency.
Here is my honest to God truth for finding success. It works.
Adaptability. Burning boot leather for the sake of it when all your cohorts are doing the same, doesn't yield instant results.
Day 1 of 1st rifle season, after tye shooting gallery starts, no amount of scouting preseason will help you. The elk know this and their patterns will change. Adapt. Find where others aren't and where elk have what they need. Feed, water, shelter.
They can hold up in areas you'd never expect.
Your passion, energy, and go getter attitude isn't the issue. Nor is your geographical relation to the hunt area. There is so much information and tools online for you to be successful its uncanny. Its all yours for the taking even if you live in Siberia.
I won't ever pin a specific ridge or valley, but I'm more than willing to hone your plan to Hopefully tip the scales. Even for us locals success is roughly 20% or lower. Same as your odds. Almost every bull i showed you was taken in an OTC area with less than 10% success.
Distance, time, money spent are of no consequence.
Stop and smell the roses. Ground truths will enlighten you to places you never thought possible.
I didn't intend to cause a ruckus, but getting trashed because I live here is a bridge too far. I'll never have enough time in life to hunt all the places in my home state either. However, I'll die trying.
This isn't a where thing. Its a tactic/plan problem. Its not personal either.
Work, life, family, friends and everything thing else in life is a constant process of learning.
Happy Hunting.
Oak, I'd love to BS with you about sheep someday.
seeth07
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Cold in terms of being your first time hunting, yes. But there are a lot of things that go into a hunt that don't change regardless of where you go or what type of hunt it is. It is an acquired and learned skill from doing it year after year.
Why do you think guys like @SC Living Outdoors, and many more including heck myself draw tags in areas we know only a little about and year after year post successful hunting threads hunting places all around the world?
El Jason
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This thread is becoming gross.
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BAKPAKR
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@mtmuley, the gloves are off and the line has been drawn. If you back down from this challenge, I am sure there are a lot of forum members, myself included, who will be very disappointed in you. Maybe you could do Trapper Peak in and out. That isn’t quite 10 miles so you shouldn’t need three full days.
El Jason
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seeth07
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Actually quite the opposite! Pointing out i feel like I often suck at this yet can easily find game and fill tags. This isnt rockey science stuff. Animals need food, water and shelter just like us humans. Find that, find them
Let's do it.
RidgeRunner76
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Sent a PM with my number.
shb
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Before the internet thats how everyone did it.
Absent beginners luck, most went home empty.
The hungry adjusted and came back. Invested thousands of dollars, and hours in getting it sorted.
The rest drifted off to who knows what.
Now everyone wants the knowledge other folks have paid for in sweat, and treasure.
Everyone wants knowledge welfare.
No wants to invest their own life and money in it.
The only result thats come from helping strangers on the internet is less , and less, and less tag odds.
Prescribed burns are used to clear out overgrowth. We need something that can clear out the overgrowth in the hunting world. Maybe another good recession.
Justabirdwatcher
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Another resident, I might point out, telling NR's how easy it is. Anyone else starting to see a pattern?
Justabirdwatcher
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I'm not the one asking for advice.
I was simply pointing out the trend of CO residents on this thread lining up to tell NR's how easy CO public land was. Pretty insulting really to tell someone who is helping support your state wildlife agencies by paying 16X as much for a tag with a fraction of the experience a resident usually has, how easy it is. And exactly what does that accomplish anyway other than chest thumping?
Just admit that for someone who lives states away and pays $800 for a NR tag, the stakes are much higher and the odds are much lower. For example, we don't get the luxury of setting up a camp week(s) ahead of the season, and driving home when the weather turns to crap. Four years ago, I was hunting 12 when we got hit with 15" of snow and single digit temps on opening day. Every local cleared out and the only three plates I saw the rest of the season was one from TX, one from MN and one from NY. I mean, if all you spend is $25 for a tag and you can just come back when the weather suits you...
I know 90% of resident hunters in the west just want the NR's to stay home. But then, your tags would go up 4-fold to even begin to meet the state wildlife budget (probably more) and you'd complain about that. So far on this thread, the nastiest, least helpful posts have come from CO residents. It's a wonder anyone even wants to go there tbh.
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