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Saddlesore,

Sorry for your losses. Seems like those grief things crop up more during hunting season and holidays.

I thought I was done for in 2020 with cancer treatments and didn’t hunt then, but here I am! Not as good as I once was, and not even as good once as I ever was. 😎

Good luck hunting!

The thought of skipping even one hunting season is beyond my rather limited comprehension.

I've been way too close to death, precisely twice......one of my own making and another beyond my control.

Perhaps the third time will be the charm.

Definitely no second-place trophies.

You fight and win.......or you lose.

Don't get arrogant, though. You may win the battle, remember who wins the war.

Hunt elk to your last year. Side-by-side, if needed.

Apply for left-over, WY hunt-area 7 cow elk.

I am fully aware of my mortality these days.

But like you, I can’t fathom giving up a hunting season as long as I remain vertical, not at this point.

We'll never make it out alive!

Send for a left-over WY zone 7 cow tag.

Even if you don't like me......humility often skips generations.

I will be 80 in August. I am on Supplemental Oxygen, wear two knee braces, and have a heart monitor embedded in my chest.

In the last 47 years. I have missed one elk season. That was in 2022 when I had the stroke a month before ML season.Ten years before that in NM I missed darn few.

I plan on going this year.

A dedicated sportsman, IMHO.

Talked with a gentleman in zone 7 (December, 2021) that was 79 years old......after he just packed a cow elk out.

Told him he would live to 100, if he kept this stuff up. His son in law promptly piped up he hoped not, good for a laugh.

He moved from Jackson to Sheridan, when things got stupid. Interesting individual.

I never said I didn’t like you! LOL

I also never said you didn’t post dumbass things arguing with some of the jerkoff numbnuts on here!!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

You'd like the youngsters much better.

They'd pack your elk out........mine too!

#5 son and his 2022 bull, zone 7, public.

He always prefers to shoot them the last 30 minutes of the hunting day.

Always fun quartering by the headlamps.

For EM011O1R, pp830 of the Draw Recap:
Im from here and for the 2nd time in my life, i wont be elk hunting. 1st time was for a OIF/OEF deployment, this time it's because the CPW places a higher value on non resident hunters than someone thats from here. No NR should draw with a 3rd choice over a resident that put in as a 1st or 2nd choice. Thats what happened for 46 NRs that applied as a third choice...There shouldn't have been ANY NR licenses issued that were 2nd or higher choice. It's sickening...

Of all of the residents that applied this year (includes 4th choice) 64% drew a licenses. Of all of the non residents that applied (includes 4th choice), 71% drew a license. The CPW "post draw successful box" states residents had a 40% success rate while non residents had a 55% success rate. These are percent rates. If you look at raw numbers, 1916 NR drew v 1395 for residents.

CPW needs to go away and we need to start over. Problem is, hunters don't have the political clout to effect change in Denver or with CPW and so we have effectively been cleaved into the pot of "you will take what we give you and you will like it".

AND furthermore!! 2nd and 3rd seasons are now 5 days in the "effected" NW units. How long until CPW keeps it that way (or adopts it for the whole state) and adds another 5 day season?
Im shocked that they don't already force everyone to apply online for a license. I spend WAY more to apply for me and my family every year than i do for the licenses they issue to us.

The current Colorado non-resident preference-point system is the worst.......even if you frequent their 'shops'.

Their Game politicians must be on something stronger.

Salute! 💪

Shouldn't you be tugging on outcome-based scenarshooter, SKane?

That would be preferable to tugging on your Werner.

Yawn.

You bring nothing to this place unless there was a call-for-pricks-thread that most of us overlooked.
But congratulations on learning to post a pict - it's been a big week for you.

It's not a pic.......it's an 'attachment' from the phone. So happy you looked. Could be more!!!!
How is scenarshooter doing? Geritol working?
TFF!

Never expose your fantasy......online. Ever!
Surely no more pics coming!
TFF!

Or your Werner.

Is that you speaking......or Burns?

Friggin' covert operations.

TFF!