Turkey hunter missing in Colorado

[Birdbander]

Just saw this in my news feed. Fingers crossed.

Search on for missing hunter in Chaffee County - Alamosa Citizen

He had gone turkey hunting alone in the Mount Shavano area on Wednesday afternoon

www.alamosacitizen.com

 

[cedahm]

Yikes - best thoughts to him and his family. I used to spend a fair amount of time on and around Shavano, never recall seeing turkeys up there but it’s been a while.

Oddly, I got a text from the HT’er formerly known as DouglasR a couple weeks ago from the top of Mt Shavano

 

[Rack Daniels]

Scary man. Hope he’s alright.

 

[Birdbander]

Press release yesterday said they're still searching. They think he may have been wearing a ghillie suit which will make finding him more difficult.

 

[Birdbander]

Last update I saw from earlier today is that authorities have not yet found him & that he was wearing a green hoodie not a ghillie suit.

 

[Nick_CO]

Some reports say his phone was dead and left behind in the car but do they know if it was dead when he left it there? Seems strange that a 27 year old would leave his phone behind in general, but also because most hunters in that age range use On-x.

 

[Hunt&FishCO]

Turkey hunting in the afternoon and leaving your phone in the vehicle seem odd. That TH is like 45min outside of town, so he couldn’t be going in more than a mile if he had that appt at 3:45

I’d assume he’d want a phone to take pics or use OnX/maps

 

[cedahm]

I know, I know - it’s Facebook….but an update:

Facebook

www.facebook.com

 

[Birdbander]

Still not found. Latest I saw was authorities are scaling back search to recharge & will be moving forward with cadaver search dogs. Sad.

 

[trb]

Very unfortunate and odd. There are very visible landmarks in that area to navigate with, no phone needed. Hope he is found.

 

[Mudranger1]

Body was found today. 1.5 miles from his truck

 

[Dave N]

Body was found today. 1.5 miles from his truck

At least the family can have closure now. Bad deal.

 

[Gellar]

Sad. I’ve never been in the mountains in the spring. Are storms lightning prevalent this time of year like they can be in September?