Elk Hunting in Colorado

metz3601 · Member Joined: Oct 31, 2008 Posts: 81

So I will be hunting Elk in colorado for the first time, and the first time hunting elk in a decade... does anyone out there know anything about GMU 59 or the surrounding areas??

slimjim · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:40 am Post subject: Re: Elk Hunting in Colorado

I have not hunted in CO. There are forums dedicated to elk hunting. You might try searching there also. Just type in elk forum in you search engine.

Bushmaster · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:18 am Post subject: Re: Elk Hunting in Colorado

Hey metz...Welcome back...

stovepipe · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:24 pm Post subject: Re: Elk Hunting in Colorado

Post some pics of that adventure man!!!

metz3601 · Member Joined: Oct 31, 2008 Posts: 81

will do, hopefully I get lucky, gonna try to get out and do some scouting this weekend, see what I cant stumble across!!

slimjim · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:35 pm Post subject: Re: Elk Hunting in Colorado

That's not how you scout elk. Walk up on them in their beds and they get up and move 8 to 15 miles. Listen for the bull bugles, look for the coming down out of the mountains around 430pm to feed or going back up in the morning. Interacting with them going up and down is not as big a deal and they likely will not move away.

Bushmaster · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: Elk Hunting in Colorado

I was hunting Elk in Washington a few years ago (well 30 maybe). We had a party of 6 people including a game warden. We found all the elk (a sizable herd) on the other side of a dirt road (the NO HUNTING side). The warden told me that he didn't see me go around them and push them back across the road. Well I did that and......

Just short of the road they turned and ran right past me. They were not going to the other (hunting) side of that road.

PaulS · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: Elk Hunting in Colorado

It's not like they can read or understand that hunting season is here but the do understand when on one side of the road they die and on the other side they live...... Smart in a different way.

metz3601 · Member Joined: Oct 31, 2008 Posts: 81

So yesterday I'm standing around talking to a couple buddy's about this weekends impending scouting trip, and my first sergeant calls me into his office... And proceeds to tell me that I am leaving on Monday to go to FT Irwin, CA to help out another unit do some training... And, naturally, I don't get back untill the last day of 3rd rifle season... Looks like no elk meat for me.... Again...

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:43 pm Post subject: Re: Elk Hunting in Colorado

Work sure gets in the way of life!

Vince · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:01 am Post subject: Re: Elk Hunting in Colorado

That's a bugger Metz old mate...but that's life in the Army. You'll get your chance mate...hang in there buddy.

stovepipe · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Elk Hunting in Colorado

Damnit!