Originally Posted by
finnbear
So there's no sage brush in CO????? or did YA just go high up because somebody told ys to?????? The famous breaks along the snake river in ID that produce many big mulies is very low and in the sage.......like I have said before I have never shot a elk in the timber!! or abouve 4000 ft!!!! there R NO HARD and fast rules about hunting ....no matter what all these site and experts want to tell U... I say again talk to the locals!!!!!!!!!
Yes, ask the locals, because as we've seen here their habits vary by region.
Yes, there is sage brush in Colorado but it's at lower elevations. I almost always hunt in the later seasons (there is an archery season, a muzzleloader season, and FOUR rifle seaons...I'm usually 3rd rifle season), so the deer / elk are already heavily pressured by the time I get to the field. By then they're not hanging out down low, but have gone up and into the thick to escape the pressure.
Where I hunt (near Gunnison, Colorado) there is NO low ground. The lowest ground is around 6000 feet above sea level, and this is where the roads, parking lots, and camp sites are -- there are no deer or elk there by the time I get there! You'd have to dig a big hole to get down to 4000
