Here we go guys, as promised.

Last Wed oct 7th 4 MN hunters ranging in age from 12 yrs old on up into the mid 60�s piled into a crew cab truck hitched to a small enclosed trailer and headed south west to Colorado for 1st rifle season with 4 brand new antlerless elk tags.

We drove as far as Craig Co and got a room for the night, thurs morning we got our groceries at city market, picked up beer, ice, pop & water, then headed to our hunting area to set up base camp.

Here�s what our travel rig looked like, in this picture we are unhooking the trailer because from this spot down to our base camp it is not safe to pull a trailer like this.

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Well here�s a couple of shots of our base camp.

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Here�s a shot of the boys eating some supper inside the tent the first night at camp.

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Here�s my buddy the wood stove, I kept it loaded at nights. It was good for about a 3 � hr burn per load.

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Friday, the day before opener the boys goofed around base camp & we managed to catch a couple of these little cut throat out of the creek next to camp.

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We decided against our usual method of making a spike camp up away from base camp as it turned out the gear was just more than we could carry without a horse. So, opening morning was to be a hunt from base camp. Me & the boys Went scouting Friday evening & did find some elk not far from base camp so that inflated the enthusiasm levels a bit.

Scouting.

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Opening morning me & my boy �RWS� (runswithscissors) headed up the hill & settled in to our first spot of what would end up being many by days end.

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View from our first hunt stop.

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We eventually moved on up higher & explored a few areas I thought would be worth checking. Here�s a shot of my boy next to an old rub we found.

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