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Anyone who cares to share experiences with drop camps in Colorado? My father and I are planning to go this fall and I'm just trying to do all the research a I can to put us in the best possible camp.
We're both war veterans and experienced hunters. I'm an experienced - no shortcuts backwoods backpacker as well.
BTW I'll be hunting a .270 140gr cor-lokt or something similar my dad is using 30-06 (not sure of his bullet selection).
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I'm giving thought to the same ideal, so I'll be watching this thread also.
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For your 270 win I would pick 140 Accubond or partition 150 grain. Cor-lokts are too soft. Another is TSX from Barnes. I like 140 AB since I can load them to 2950 Fps from 22.5 barrel.
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The Partitions are always my first choice for Elk. What part of Colorado are you planning?
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My friends and I have hunted drop camps in Colorado and Idaho at least 7, maybe 8 times. The drop camp we go to in CO is one of my favorite things to do.
We average success rates at 50 percent or better on these hunts, we do a draw area..
Like all hunts, check as many references as possible, be sure to ask how game is packed out.
A .270 or '06 is plenty.. I shoot partitions or Tsx, my buds shoot corelokts. '06s are the main choice and one guy shoots a .300 bee(so heavy). Hit um right and they just fall down.
I would highly recommend you hunt only the first season, especially in a otc area..
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I think there are no 1st season hunts for OTC rifle in Colorado.
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We're planning on putting in for the 1st season if we don't draw then 2nd.
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My dad is leading the area pick for now, but since I'm also putting out what I estimate to be around $4k for this hunt I am doing my own research so please if you have a suggestion I'd like to hear it I will research it thoroughly.
I'm planning on driving my own 4x4 so I can transport the meat back so being drivable is probably the one constraint.
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As an update I ended up buying a 7mm Rem Mag, I am very pleased with the rifle. Sadly the details of the hunt still aren't confirmed.
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Four of us used a drop camp in the Weminuche about ten years ago. We were on a mountain named "Quien Sabe", in sight of Pagosa peak. I believe it was the first rifle season and on the first day, we thought we got chumped. None of the four saw or heard or found fresh sign of an elk. That night at camp, we heard a bugle that would make your neck hair stand up. It only got better from there. It seems that the lower elevations were heavily hunted and after the first day there were elk everywhere. We didn't kill anything but we should have killed two or three.
I always wanted to go back there but I doubt that will happen.
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I have seen more elk wacked with core-lokts than any other bullet.
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I have seen more elk wacked with core-lokts than any other bullet. Of course that doesn't mean its the best choice. But shot placement trumps it all as usual.
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I keep trying to get them to bounce off elk, so I can reuse them, but no luck so far.
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Right now my dad and I are planning to hunt second season 12,23 or 24 depending on how the scouting goes.
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It's amazing how the core-lokt killed millions of elk, and then the internet came along and changed all that...
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Four of us used a drop camp in the Weminuche about ten years ago. We were on a mountain named "Quien Sabe", in sight of Pagosa peak. I believe it was the first rifle season and on the first day, we thought we got chumped. None of the four saw or heard or found fresh sign of an elk. That night at camp, we heard a bugle that would make your neck hair stand up. It only got better from there. It seems that the lower elevations were heavily hunted and after the first day there were elk everywhere. We didn't kill anything but we should have killed two or three.
I always wanted to go back there but I doubt that will happen.
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No, not Back Country Outfitters, Lobo Outfitters. But I've talked with Dave a number of times at sports shows. He seems like a great guy!
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