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01-12-2007 | 05:31 PM

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grndhntr

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RE: Colorado Elk Hunt

Fri. Jan. 12

IT IS COLD!!! When I woke up this morning the thermometer read -3.5 F. I almost talked myself out of going out. I knew it wasn't supposed to warm up much and the snow would be super loud. There wasn't any wind to mask my noise. I hope you guys won't be too disappointed, but...I decided to take out the cowboy gun. I thought maybe I could get within 100 yds. in these conditions. Now the "cowboy gun" is my Marlin 30-30 with iron sights. I know what you're thinking- "a 30-30 is a little wimpy for elk isn't it". Well, I've taken a couple of elk with it and my daughter just shot her elk with it in Nov. Within a 100 yds. it'll pop both lungs and a bilateral hemo/pnumothorax is usually quite lethal (sorry, just threw in a little medical lingo there).
Anyway, I finally got out to the 80 acres at 9:30 and there they were- about 30 elk. I played cat and mouse with them as they jumped the fence onto where I could hunt and then back where I couldn't. After about an hour, they had enough and took off to parts unknown. I assumed they were all together, but I went back and checked tracks just to be sure. Well, if there weren't several tracks going just where I needed them to, back onto the 80 acres and then onto national forest land to the south. Here's some of the elk as I was trying to sneak in (I sounded like a herda elephants) on them this morning.

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