Piceance Creek Area
 

I am in need of information regarding the Piceance Creek Area. Can anyone tell me how the weather has been in the area lately? I have an either sextag for the first rifle season for elk and plan on hunting the area.I was out there three years ago and loved the area. We enjoyed talking with the locals from the Meeker area. Very nice people. I only dream of being able to live in Colorado one day.

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I really need to find other places to hunt, everyone on here is hunting places I have been. I have not heard how the weather is. Where do you hunt out there. do you get up to cathedral bluff on the unit boarder, wish I was going with ya. If you have a mulely tag tag is the place to go I have seen some HUGE deer durning the archery and bp season up there. I see a lot of bear up there too. elk hunting is hit and miss depends on pressure. Do you hunt the pines or the cuts up high in the timber?I have never hunted with a gun out there.
good luck.

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Pack some warm cloths, seems fall is setting in pretty good. It was in the 20's there over the weekend. Snow is falling in the higher elevations already. Went over Vail Pass yesterday and its been a snowing there already north side had some that was staying around.

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Thanks for the information. We will be hunting elk only. Hope to get lucky. Mtisfullofit..... you don't have much to worry about as far as a couple of greenhorns putting a hurt on the population. We hunt primarily with rifle. Thanks Silver Wolf. We went out three years ago and it was 75 during the day and 10 at night. Sounds like this time we might be in for an adventure!

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I will be out there hunting mulie on private land... i waited to long top get me a regular tag... i am hoping to get me a good mulie. wish me luck

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I will be hunting just north of there 2nd season along the White River, bought a leftover tag. Good luck to the rest of you.

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Well just got home three days early. It wasn't a good adventure. Pleas see post in Off Season Forum for details. But saw a BUNCH of Mulies one monster. Only saw two cows and they were running the other way at 500 yards. It is a beautiful area. We stayed in Meeker it is a wonderful town with some great people! Best of luck!

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i guess my buddy id taking me else where to find deer when i get there but his brother in law got a 5x5 elk

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I took a 5X6 bull there back in 03 during first rifle season.

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man you are making me jealous. i didnt get an elk lic all i got was a deer but i am really thinking of getting the elk lic. i figure now all i am goin to see is elk and no deer... i really should get my elk lic. do you see any mulies up that way?????

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No need to be jealous. I just happen to get lucky that was all. Anyway yes this year when we were out there we saw a bunch of mullies. Saw a few small bucks and one MONSTER!! It was at least a 4X4 ( I couldn't tell if he had any browtines). It was atleast 24 inches outside measurements. It was beautiful to watch.

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I have hunted that area for the last7 years and have watched it get more and more crouded. I got shot at last year back there.I have friend that lives right there if you go in the front side right befor you cross the bridge there house sit on the left.there land goses all the way down to the river. verry good unit verry good in all weatther just way to maqny people. I am leaving on wednesday for there to hunt.we have seen some good quilty deer and soem ok elk. I have taken 5 4x4s and 3 elk from that unit.
Good LUck.

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Good luck to you out of bounds and by all means be safe and wear your orange.

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Well i got there 2 days after the season opened and didnt see anything with any antlers. i looked all around and didnt see anything but does and cows and a few small spikes... so since i had me a E/S tag i decided on takeing me a doe the last day..... i will be back there again next year hopefully to get a deer and elk tag. i didnt mind the private onbly tag cause i was able to get either sex.... let me know how everyone did. i am back in new york to work on some whitetails

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I lived in Frisco, Co for 15 years back in the late 70's and early 80's. Was a union carpenter and help put the new hwy over Vail Pass and build Keystone for Ralston Purina, Vail, and Beaver Creek. A group of us used to hunt the Pionce Creek Basin every year and did extreamly well for quite a few years.....till the oil shale people came in and ruined it closing roads they had no right to shut down. Man we used to see some serious great mulie bucks!!!! Is the area more accessable now? We quit hunting there because when you pulled into camp and the sun came up on opening morning you had to have a bullet proof vest on for all the hunters shooting at anything that moved!!!! It got pretty scary. We started hunting across from Avon and we put quite a dent in both the mulie and wily wapiti population.....:) Big mulies up living on those headwalls in that area!!!! And the elk hunting was just as good!!!! that whole area around vail skii area and down into beaver Creek used to be one of the largest migration routes there was. I took my hunter saftey program in Vail in the 70's and they had a movie they showed with thousands of Elk and deer walking right across where the skii area is now....it was amazing!!!!!! I sure miss it up there....had some times of a lifetime in Summit County and the surrounding areas.....way back when there was only a 2 lane hiway going over Vail Pass and there was only 1 stoplight in the town of Frisco......the good old days are long gone....and it's a pure shame.......