Congrats on the kills! Let's get some stories.

My story is this. I'm headed back to the Weminuche tomorrow to squeeze in 3+ days of elk hunting. No more dogs... No more hairy bushed nuns. This time I keep my eye on the prize.

Time to put the women and children to bed and go lookin for fckn dinner.

Still elk Horney.

I got some great stories but still up here trying to help another get stick one. Will recap when I get home. It's been a heck of a season.

Sweet. Can't wait. Happy for you man.

Cooked some of mine tonight and gotdang this sumbich is good. Horns be damned this is what it's about.

Sorry...I was a few whiskeys in

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/17PyZ

*edit: imgur link really puts a damper on my parade. Why can't it just post the pic?

Congrats man!

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Is this tease from unit 62? Congrats, looking forward to the pics!

Oh man, that's awesome.

Awesome bull

Awesome! That is one heck of a bull. OTC Archery makes it perfect. Great hunt!

Congrats! Awesome bull regardless, especially for a high pressure OTC unit like 62!

We were there the first week of the season, my dad shot a young 4x4 bull. I saw him the evening before he shot him but couldn't make it happen, I mostly saw a bunch of bears. It was our first successful archery elk hunt

Congrats! Awesome bull!!

Awesome hunt. I love the public hunting successes.

Glad to see someone hearing/killing something. I'm back now and given my experience, or lack thereof, I may never go back again. I was told it was like turkey hunting big game, and I glossed over the fact that I believe turkey hunting to be the worst hunting on earth. ...turns out that my experience was exactly like turkey hunting. It sucked.

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Glad to see someone hearing/killing something. I'm back now and given my experience, or lack thereof, I may never go back again. I was told it was like turkey hunting big game, and I glossed over the fact that I believe turkey hunting to be the worst hunting on earth. ...turns out that my experience was exactly like turkey hunting. It sucked.

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What area were you in?was it just terrible bc you didn't have any activity?

Basically. $800 in tags and 4 years of waiting to never have even a remote chance to kill an elk, even a cow. 14 days with temps as high as 85 degrees. Oh, and what I assume will be $1500 in damage to my truck.

At least it wasn't just us. Even the high dollar ranch hunt guys on private land stopped in to ask if we were hearing anything because no one anywhere around us was hearing any bugling or seeing any elk during daylight. Those guys were spending $6,000-10,000 for their trip so I guess that makes me feel a lot better about the amount we spent.

Don't care that we didn't kill but we legitimately had no real chance to even get close. And we never saw another hunter anywhere near where we were hunting so I don't think it was due to pressure. Just one of those things I suppose. Hot temps, full moon, gay elk, who knows?

I did climb 2400 feet at one point to shoot a dusky grouse, so I guess I've got that goin' for me.

But legitimately excited for the guys that did get it done!!

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Basically. $800 in tags and 4 years of waiting to never have even a remote chance to kill an elk, even a cow. 14 days with temps as high as 85 degrees. Oh, and what I assume will be $1500 in damage to my truck.

At least it wasn't just us. Even the high dollar ranch hunt guys on private land stopped in to ask if we were hearing anything because no one anywhere around us was hearing any bugling or seeing any elk during daylight. Those guys were spending $6,000-10,000 for their trip so I guess that makes me feel a lot better about the amount we spent.

Don't care that we didn't kill but we legitimately had no real chance to even get close. And we never saw another hunter anywhere near where we were hunting so I don't think it was due to pressure. Just one of those things I suppose. Hot temps, full moon, gay elk, who knows?

I did climb 2400 feet at one point to shoot a dusky grouse, so I guess I've got that goin' for me.

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It seems very hit or miss this year. I have a buddy that killed a 5x6 last week. They were literally setting up camp and it bugles just above them. He drops his work gloves and grabs his bow. He figures he might be able to put it to bed to chase the following day. Ends up almost stepping on it and practically kills it in self defense to protect his bung hole.

First bull ever. And with a bow. On public land. Over the counter tag. Lucky SOB.

I'm hoping this means the rut will be later and the warm weather will hold on longer this year for us rifle hunters.

Congrats to the killers. You kill elk. You harvest corn. Corn is stupid. Elk are smart. Don't apologize for killing. I enjoy killing animals and eating their flesh.

The good news is they are harvesting a lot of corn here locally now. That is a lot less places for whitetails to hide!

Eating corn gives me gas... My truck feels the same way.

Just got home and I'm beat so here's the short version of my quick hitter trip back to the Weminuche.

Snowed fom noon til 4.30pm on fri... About 4 inches. Day before was warm. Called a nice bull into 45 yards but couldn't get a shot

The carnage



My clothes were actually frozen to the floor when I woke up yesterday morning.

Dusky grouse beats the hell outta mountain house.

how high up was the snow?

I know the Flat Tops are still waiting for their first snow of the year.

Met up with one of the cousins I'm hunting with in a couple weeks (headed to Colorado on the 19th), and figured out group gear....did that yesterday. It'll be the 19th before I know it.