I just got back the other day from my 1st season Colorado elk hunt with a friend of mine Colorado Bob. We had a GREAT camp & went 2 for 2 on bulls. I took a nice 6x5 on opening morning. The morning was perfect, I could hear the cows calling each other as they came through the timber into the bowl. Just before first light I heard my bull bugle! It really got the adrenalin flowing. The cows showed up first, and then two bulls stepped into a shooting lane & started sparing. I took my bull with a 200 grain nosler loaded in my 300 wby. A few days later Bob took his 5x5 with his tried & true 30-06 shooting 180 grain Hornadys. A great trip!
Posts: 813 | Location: Wexford PA, USA | Registered: 18 July 2002
Great hunt, congrats on to fine Bulls. More details please, where did you hunt and what rifles did you use including loads. Getting ready to leave myself on Nov 10th. Good shooting.
phurley
Posts: 2377 | Location: KY | Registered: 22 September 2004
We hunted public land in unit 75. I loaded my 300 weatherby with 78 grains of RL-22 & 200 grain Nolsler partitions. It is the max load in Noslers manual & works well in my Left handed Weatherby MArk V. Bob useed his 30-06 with 180 grain Hornady handloads. Not sure what his load is. ut he has killed about 20 elk ith it over the years! We both used Leupold VAri X-III 2.5 -8x scopes.
Where are you headed? Good luck!
Posts: 813 | Location: Wexford PA, USA | Registered: 18 July 2002
Yes this trip (like all my elk hunting) is purely DIY. It is very rewarding.
We got slammed with snow on the way out. I keep trying to upload pictures of that...but photo bucket seems tempermental & will not rake photos some times.......like now!
Posts: 813 | Location: Wexford PA, USA | Registered: 18 July 2002
You guys should have a good bit of snow. This is what it looked like on the way down from first season rifle. The snow line was down to 9000' Good luck!
Posts: 813 | Location: Wexford PA, USA | Registered: 18 July 2002
