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I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
I am really excited. I leave this thurday the 4th to Wyoming for elk. I am going to hunt Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If I get an elk early like friday or saturday morning I might grab an antelope tag and try to get an antelpe to. When do you guys all start hunting?
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RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
Good luck elk hunting sharpshooter.. I wish you the best of luck.
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RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
good luck on the elk,my hunting starts day after tommarrow with bow season. Lee
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RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
Here in Washington state our ML season for elk starts on the 6th of October. I just got back about an hour ago from setting up part of our wilderness camp. We have a 14x16 wall tent with wood stove. It is so nice coming in from a day of hunting to warm tent, drying out your clothes and falling asleep to a crackling fire in the stove. PTL for horses to haul all this gear in.
My load for elk is an A&H 420, 460 grain no excuses and 110 gr 3f, #11 caps and iron sights. happy day to all of you and happy hunting. |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
Leaving on the 4th, boy dont I wish I was in your shoes. Good luck on your trip. Bring back some pics.
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RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
ORIGINAL: Sharp Shooter I am really excited. I leave this thurday the 4th to Wyoming for elk. I am going to hunt Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If I get an elk early like friday or saturday morning I might grab an antelope tag and try to get an antelpe to. When do you guys all start hunting? I'm heading out Wed. We have a bull and cow tag for moose + 3 calf tags.2 whitetail doe tags and 3 buck tags, 1 doe/buck tagand 2 bear tags. Moose are our primary goal though. Good luck to you. I hope you have a great hunt. |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
Best of luck to you guys and hope you have great hunts.
Since I no longer archery hunt, my hunting begins in November. |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
Good luck to you. I will be heading out to WY at the end of the month for elk too. I'm chomping at the bit.
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:D:D
We have a 14x16 wall tent with wood stove. |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
Usually we have several tents, a small wall tent for me and my bddy ernie, then another dome tent for my boys, but only one of them is coming up this year and we thought we try this one out this year. wWe all snore badly, except for my boys.
you say like a wood chipper Semi, I once stayed in a hunting camp with about ten guy and one of them had a son with a sinus -pallet defect. I kid you not this was the loudest snoring I have ever heard, we called him "Jake-brake", cause thats what he sounded like. After the second night thekid and his dad slept intheir truck canopy. |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
Get me that kid's name so I can invite him to our hunting camp. Maybe the guys will get off my back.;)
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RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
ORIGINAL: Sharp Shooter I am really excited. I leave this thurday the 4th to Wyoming for elk. I am going to hunt Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If I get an elk early like friday or saturday morning I might grab an antelope tag and try to get an antelpe to. When do you guys all start hunting? |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
In MO, bow season started Sept 15 but still in the high 80s here
Our opener is Nov 10 still way off. |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
UPDATE: I got my NM Muzzy cow on opening day at 3:15 in the afternoon...I saw about 40 cows and many bulls and after having to back off twice because of bulls getting in the way I finally managed to sneak within 50 yard to take a cow on her bed. The T/C Encore worked perfectly and the T/C Shockwave bonded 250-grain bullet powered by 3x50 Pyrodex pellets did a fantastic job. Shattered one rib causing a major hole on the impact side and the bullet was found on the off side between the ribs andthe front shoulder...it was about the size of a quarter.
We found the elk bedding at around 9300 ft just like last year and I managed to take my elk less than a 1/2 mile from where my brother got his last year. The wind was really blowing (15-20 mph) and was coming up hill (I was above the cows) and it made it hard for the elk to tell I was there…all the cows were laying down and I had to wait for more than 30 mins till one of them stood up to stretch and then I had my chance. I had one cow that was laying down that was really close but the only shot was a neck/head shot and I wasn’t going to risk a marginal shot when all I had to do was wait. As it turned out the closest cow got a buy this time and I took a different cow who finally stood up. Many other hunters were complaining about not see many bulls but we sawone 5 pointer,four nice 6 pointers and one extremely nice 6 pointer in the 350+ class. They just weren't hunting at the right altitude as far as I could tell. The bulls were bugling and starting to fight when we got there andby all appearances the rut was just getting fired up. |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
nov 3, here in Va, bow has started last sat. (I don't bow hunt).I only can go out 2 days a week, have premision to hunt on some farmland, and can walk out my back or front door and hunt;)
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RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
ORIGINAL: AZBear UPDATE: I got my NM Muzzy cow on opening day at 3:15 in the afternoon...I saw about 40 cows and many bulls and after having to back off twice because of bulls getting in the way I finally managed to sneak within 50 yard to take a cow on her bed. The T/C Encore worked perfectly and the T/C Shockwave bonded 250-grain bullet powered by 3x50 Pyrodex pellets did a fantastic job. Shattered one rib causing a major hole on the impact side and the bullet was found on the off side between the ribs andthe front shoulder...it was about the size of a quarter. We found the elk bedding at around 9300 ft just like last year and I managed to take my elk less than a 1/2 mile from where my brother got his last year. The wind was really blowing (15-20 mph) and was coming up hill (I was above the cows) and it made it hard for the elk to tell I was there…all the cows were laying down and I had to wait for more than 30 mins till one of them stood up to stretch and then I had my chance. I had one cow that was laying down that was really close but the only shot was a neck/head shot and I wasn’t going to risk a marginal shot when all I had to do was wait. As it turned out the closest cow got a buy this time and I took a different cow who finally stood up. Many other hunters were complaining about not see many bulls but we sawone 5 pointer,four nice 6 pointers and one extremely nice 6 pointer in the 350+ class. They just weren't hunting at the right altitude as far as I could tell. The bulls were bugling and starting to fight when we got there andby all appearances the rut was just getting fired up. |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
Good luck to ya.
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RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
ORIGINAL: AZBear UPDATE: I got my NM Muzzy cow on opening day at 3:15 in the afternoon...I saw about 40 cows and many bulls and after having to back off twice because of bulls getting in the way I finally managed to sneak within 50 yard to take a cow on her bed. The T/C Encore worked perfectly and the T/C Shockwave bonded 250-grain bullet powered by 3x50 Pyrodex pellets did a fantastic job. Shattered one rib causing a major hole on the impact side and the bullet was found on the off side between the ribs andthe front shoulder...it was about the size of a quarter. We found the elk bedding at around 9300 ft just like last year and I managed to take my elk less than a 1/2 mile from where my brother got his last year. The wind was really blowing (15-20 mph) and was coming up hill (I was above the cows) and it made it hard for the elk to tell I was there…all the cows were laying down and I had to wait for more than 30 mins till one of them stood up to stretch and then I had my chance. I had one cow that was laying down that was really close but the only shot was a neck/head shot and I wasn’t going to risk a marginal shot when all I had to do was wait. As it turned out the closest cow got a buy this time and I took a different cow who finally stood up. Many other hunters were complaining about not see many bulls but we sawone 5 pointer,four nice 6 pointers and one extremely nice 6 pointer in the 350+ class. They just weren't hunting at the right altitude as far as I could tell. The bulls were bugling and starting to fight when we got there andby all appearances the rut was just getting fired up. |
RE: I leave Thursday October 4th for elk!
Chap Gleason and Cayugad,
Thanks for your support...I’ll try and post a picture of the bullet and the cow as soon as I get a chance. I’m leaving tomorrow morning with my oldest son who just came back from Iraq and he’s going to help me on my Colorado either sex elk hunt. I would have applied for a tag for him but we were not sure he would be back fro the Gulf in time and he wanted to wait, maybe next time. I’ll let you know how things turn out… Barry |
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