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Going elk hunting the first week of bow season near cortez colorodo. Just wondering who has been that early and what to expect. Any pointers etc appreciated.

i have been cousins have a cabin up there. never know from to expect from what i ve seen its hit or miss.. this year it was awesome..last year hunted four days didnt see or hear a thing. what area will you be in?

duckcommander2407 wrote:i have been cousins have a cabin up there. never know from to expect from what i ve seen its hit or miss.. this year it was awesome..last year hunted four days didnt see or hear a thing. what area will you be in?

Beaver mountain

lilwhitelie wrote:

duckcommander2407 wrote:
Beaver mountain

I knew that was coming......

lilwhitelie wrote:

duckcommander2407 wrote:i have been cousins have a cabin up there. never know from to expect from what i ve seen its hit or miss.. this year it was awesome..last year hunted four days didnt see or hear a thing. what area will you be in?

Beaver mountain

i call BS.....if you're there, it'll be more like brokeback mountain

gator

you must be going with him

gator wrote:

lilwhitelie wrote:

duckcommander2407 wrote:i have been cousins have a cabin up there. never know from to expect from what i ve seen its hit or miss.. this year it was awesome..last year hunted four days didnt see or hear a thing. what area will you be in?

Beaver mountain

i call BS.....if you're there, it'll be more like brokeback mountain

gator

Did you ever get that gerbil out?????? Poor lil fella.....

Years ago I went up to Glenwood Springs area. If you are going early...last week of august, then you probably won't hear any bugling to speak of. The best thing to do is cover ground...LOTS AND LOTS of ground. Look for areas with less steep grade...we didn't find much sign in areas where the general slope was steeper. You will know when you find "THE" place...set up there with climbing stands overlooking the convergence of a few trails leading up/down the mountain, get in early, sit down and hold on. Those elk up there aren't use to being shot at by boogers up in trees. Remember that your scent will blow up the mountain in the morning and blow down the mountain in the evening due to thermals. We found more sign in the quakies than we did in the dark timber...but don't know if that's "normal" or not.

Another thing, elk have a "smell" to them that is unmistakeable. If you come across an area that a herd of elk JUST were you'll smell them. To describe the smell I would use "musty" or "musky" however you spell that word in that sense. We walked upon an area with 6-8 fresh beds and could actually smell them. I feel like we jumped them, just never knew it..the beds were still warm and FRESH scat was dropped too...still green and soft. Speaking of scat, look for high travel areas with different scat freshness levels. Most importantly is fresh, green and soft, but it must be mixed in with other levels, brown and semi-soft/hard, to black and dried up. If you find all 3 you can rest assured the are using the area now, and have been regularly using it for quite some time. Just finding fresh scat alone tells you that they were recently there, could have just been passing through one time, thats why it's very important to find different stages of it in one area.

well we always go to owl mountain if you ve ever been for all you poor a** folks that dont have enough money or even common sense to go hunting out of state or even out of your home county why even comment? really was just tryin to help aint that new here been reading on for few months knew ya ll was a bunch of arses so thanks for the welcome

DC, i was messing w/ my buddy LWL who in turn did the same.......it's called, in layman's terms, "pickin' on buddies".....happens all the time, here and in the real world.

maybe you might order some thicker skin off ebay then come back for another try???

gator

duckcommander2407 wrote:well we always go to owl mountain if you ve ever been for all you poor a** folks that dont have enough money or even common sense to go hunting out of state or even out of your home county why even comment? really was just tryin to help aint that new here been reading on for few months knew ya ll was a bunch of arses so thanks for the welcome

Your welcome.......................

I had all kinda sef o' steam today, until I read dis here thred and relized I's just po' ass folk.

DC2407 you shoul just keep readin, what a pric.