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 Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
[Re: Palehorse]
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11/10/13 03:47 PM
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Great story and awesome bull!!
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
[Re: Palehorse]
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11/10/13 04:06 PM
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Great Hunt! Congratulations!
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/10/13 07:56 PM
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Great story and hunt. Thanks for sharing!
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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AWESOME!! And thanks for story. Great job. Took me back about 40yrs to some great memories of elk hunting. Thanks again and major congrats.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/10/13 08:51 PM
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Thank you, everyone. It was definitely an adventure!
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/10/13 09:16 PM
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Congrats!
Sounds like an awesome time.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 02:07 AM
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Well done! I was going to hunt the San Juan NF but danged old work put the kibosh on it. Way to hunt till the end!
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 03:07 AM
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Great write up and great bull! I hope to be able to take an elk one day.
A man can never have enough guns.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 01:43 PM
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A great story, well told. Almost 30yrs since I got my first elk and I remember every moment like it was yesterday.
Congrats!
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 01:48 PM
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These are the hunts I hope we get to carry the memories of into the next life.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 02:18 PM
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Fantastic read and pic's. Thank you for sharing with us, and congrat's! 
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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Very Nice, Jason!!! A big congrats! I have done exactly what you did, haul out an elk on your back. The next year, we hired a ranch hand and his horses to haul it out! It was money well spent!
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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Great read and super pics, congrats on the positive results of the adventure that will stay with you forever any time some one mentions Elk Hunting in Colorado. You've now BTDT!
Yep local ranchers and horses are a blessing...an old fart like me I know hired a helicopter to pull his out one time...and dropped it in the back of his truck "down the hill". He said it's only money and I ain't gonna break a leg or blow a heart valve on that @&#@* mountain at past 60...I still don't know how he walked UP that hill to begin with.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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All week Bill asked what I thought about where I was hunting. I said "it would be hell to get one out". He said " if you get a shot, take it, we'll get it out one way or another".
Wouldn't you know it, his friends from LA had left 3 hours before I shot that bull...with their horses. And they had been there for 10 days.
Doh!
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 06:11 PM
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 06:51 PM
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Jason, I cannot begin to explain how proud of you I am!!!
Talk about...truly a hunt of lifetime!
I really enjoyed reading about your experiences. It mimicked mine, but you harvested a beautiful animal. I know exactly how exhaustive it is hiking up and down in Colorado and thruthfully, there is no real way to train for it, why do you think I hunt in Arkansas so much. Elevation is not quite there, but it's a good way to accalmate your self to rugged terrain.
Thanks again for sharing.
What are the specs on your equipment? If you don't mind sharing that.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 09:32 PM
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 10:03 PM
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Congrats, nothing like the first bull. Add some decent work to butcher and pack him out, and that meat tastes even sweeter. Welcome to the addiction. Most people that Whitetail hunt here in Texas would really benefit from a trip out west, it will test your resolve and you get to see what your really made of. Well done sir. Baker Yep, fully agree.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 10:45 PM
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Congratulations! Wow what a great story and hunt. I am going to my darndest to go next year. Thanks for sharing
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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11/11/13 11:04 PM
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Jason, I cannot begin to explain how proud of you I am!!!
Talk about...truly a hunt of lifetime!
I really enjoyed reading about your experiences. It mimicked mine, but you harvested a beautiful animal. I know exactly how exhaustive it is hiking up and down in Colorado and thruthfully, there is no real way to train for it, why do you think I hunt in Arkansas so much. Elevation is not quite there, but it's a good way to accalmate your self to rugged terrain.
Thanks again for sharing.
What are the specs on your equipment? If you don't mind sharing that.
Skylar, Here's the pics of the rifle, and a video. I appreciate the kind words everybody! http://www.texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4558962/1
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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Re: My first elk hunting experience. Full story, and pics.
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Outrageous story and elk! Congrats!
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