1st season rifle Colorado elk pictures

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20 October 2007, 17:11

Iron Buck

1st season rifle Colorado elk pictures

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!

20 October 2007, 17:25

phurley5

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.

20 October 2007, 17:38

Iron Buck

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!

20 October 2007, 17:43

x-caliber

Looks like you had an awesome trip. Way to go!

20 October 2007, 18:41

Bob in TX

Congrats guys!! I can tell you didn't have any fun at all on this one?!?

Bob

20 October 2007, 19:32

JBoutfishn

quote:
We hunted public land in unit 75

Well done guys! What a deal

20 October 2007, 19:39

Jarrod

Nice bulls, looks like you had a good time

20 October 2007, 21:32

kudu56

Looks like you had a great trip. Thanks for sharing!

21 October 2007, 03:43

Kenpo_Joe

Looks like you had some warm weather. I have a tag for the 4th season and I am hoping for lots of snow.

Back on mute.

21 October 2007, 19:31

larrys

I know you said it was public land, but was it DIY also?

GREAT bulls.

21 October 2007, 20:20

Iron Buck

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!

21 October 2007, 20:26

Bullshooter

Them some fine bulls. congrats on the DIY hunt.

22 October 2007, 04:10

chain

Great Hunt. Congratulations. I am so ready to go.

22 October 2007, 09:57

JKS

Nice bulls

23 October 2007, 04:02

raybass

Congrats iron buck, I like seeing these pics. I'm getting worked up for the third rifle in Colorado.

25 October 2007, 04:54

Iron Buck

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!