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3rd season CO Elk #6511762 10/26/16 01:36 AM
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Anybody hunting this season? I'm going to unit 4 driving.

Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6511768 10/26/16 01:38 AM
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Good hunting to you.


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Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6511772 10/26/16 01:40 AM
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I'll be headed up 11/5 to hunt 3rd season. Got spots in 74 and 75 marked on the GPS for a try.


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Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6511808 10/26/16 01:54 AM
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Heading up the 3rd in Pagosa Springs on our first ever trip. Going with a guide.

Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6511810 10/26/16 01:56 AM
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Thanks Creek.

Huntnfishtx. Good luck. I'm in Frisco. This is my first trip out west

Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6511820 10/26/16 01:59 AM
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Hartca are you the guy I met at the mesquite range?

Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6511823 10/26/16 01:59 AM
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Have fun and take lots of pics. Warning hunting elk in those mountains can be addictive.


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Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6511824 10/26/16 02:00 AM
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A lot of private land up in that corner of the state, supposed to be some of the best bulls and bucks because of it.


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Sure am!

Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6511829 10/26/16 02:01 AM
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Good luck as well!!!!

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Have you heard of the elk are moving well? We need snow!!

Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6511922 10/26/16 02:46 AM
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From the guys around Dolores right now, it has been warm and wet. Hope third season is better for you. I am out of the country for work and missed the DIY hunt that I did last year and several guys are doing right now. I am heading home today or tomorrow and thinking about grabbing my gun and tent and heading up for third season. Not sure where I would go yet and it will depend on several things falling into place. Those that are going, good luck!


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Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6512027 10/26/16 04:00 AM
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Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6513742 10/27/16 01:48 AM
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Me and a buddy will be headed out around Dolores next wensday. Hoping for a good cold front to get them moving

Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6513971 10/27/16 09:44 AM
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Well I won't be making it back from Israel until the evening of the 3rd, I may try to jump in the truck and head up, but looks like pretty short notice. We will see.


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Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6517076 10/29/16 01:30 PM
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Just got back from 75 and 751 Elk hunting. It was hot and dry. record highs, only saw 2 herds of elk in the dark timber at the 9,500 ft elevation level. Heard me coming a mile away. waning Full moon did not help, lots of tracks heading down to private land. Did not see anyone on the mountain with a kill. All the guides were hiigh for 11 days and did not see anything.

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Originally Posted By: McKinney
Just got back from 75 and 751 Elk hunting. It was hot and dry. record highs, only saw 2 herds of elk in the dark timber at the 9,500 ft elevation level. Heard me coming a mile away. waning Full moon did not help, lots of tracks heading down to private land. Did not see anyone on the mountain with a kill. All the guides were hiigh for 11 days and did not see anything.

You need weather or hunt water.


Same deal with me, plus add atrocious winds bang If there is a positive, there should be many bulls go through another year as the outfitters I know up there are having the same issues, even on Private land.


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in Pagosa need to go high and at least one ridge over, stick to dark timber. Just left 2nd rifle. Good luck!


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Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6520898 11/01/16 02:40 AM
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Good again to all. I hope to see pictures and have one or two to post in a week or two.

Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6524661 11/03/16 02:37 AM
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Just got back from 2nd west of Delores. The area they call the glade has had the deer head into the Delores river canyon. At least this according to the game wardens we spoke with. Our group tried 3 basic tactics; 1) sit on water. Works except they kept coming in at near dark making it difficult to separate bulls from cows from spikes. 2) drive the roads like the locals do. This actually worked for one of our group. Someone in one of the draws pushed 8 head out. One was a 5x5 that just HAD to stop and look back. 3) find where they're bedding and get there before daylight and wait. This one worked for me. Spotted mine at 667 yards and moved over on the ledge enough that I shot him at 137 yards. The pack out of that canyon wasn't made for a 50-something year old man.
Here's a couple of pics. Note the angle of the draw I was in.



Made a new friend while I was up there as well. She turned 3 last Saturday. Her name is Daisy! grin



Here's a better view of what we had to climb to pack my elk out.



Again, according to the GW, the elk are either very high or very low. They are responding to the hunting pressure by finding either dark timber or very rough areas. From what they were telling us, once they've been pushed a time or two, they head for the tough areas.
Good luck to everyone heading out for 3rd and 4th in Colorado.


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Congrats. Well earned bull sir and a life long friend. Love it!

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Congrats. Well earned bull sir and a life long friend. Love it!
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X's 2, the Glade is well known with the locals, animals can get to the Delores drainage, or S towards private lands, a bit further West,and there is often bean stubble left in fields they will go through.

Congrats on a good hunt.


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Re: 3rd season CO Elk [Re: scdogman] #6527866 11/05/16 02:57 PM
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I will be in unit 5 tonight!! Mule Deer.


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