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We leave on our annual Colorado elk hunt on Sept 9th. Already started packing. Got the nervous jitters just cant wait to get to the mountains. Five of us going weve got 2 muzzleloader Bull tags and Three muzzleloader cow tags. Its gonna be bloody this year. Well see if our home built meat cooler can hold five elk. Whats everyone else got going for elk season? O yea ive got one of the cow tags.
I've always been different with one foot over the line.....
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I've heard bugling the last 7-8 days or so.
night-time temps have dropped 20* too.
it's coming!
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Weve had high 90 degrees temps for the last two weeks. One of the best parts of the trip is when we pull into Silverthorne Colorado for fuel and the temps are in the low forties or high thirties it feels great after a long hot midwest summer.
I've always been different with one foot over the line.....
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it's been about 40* at 7000' most mornings here this past week. they're getting revved up to go. 
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My brother and I are leaving on the 6th or 7th for southern Colorado muzzleloader. The forecast for tonight there is 42 and thunderstorms. Can't wait!!!!
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I agree....can hardly wait for Oct 8th. Heading to unit 54 with an either sex elk, cow elk, and buck deer licenses all for muzzleloader season. Already contacted my horse rental guy too. Yeehaw!
You see in this world, there's two kinds of people my friend; those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
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I am waiting for Nov. 17...4th season rifle, both my wife and I drew either sex elk this year!
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I am waiting for Nov. 17...4th season rifle, both my wife and I drew either sex elk this year! For what unit?
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I don't leave until the 29th of October for NM. Going back to area just north of Ruidoso where I was blessed to take a 350 class a few years back. Probably a good thing I am going later as the mountain training in S. Texas is going a little slow in the 100+temps.
Best of luck to ya'll and most of all enjoy the mountains and the cooler weather.
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Sept 8th, leave for SE Wyoming.
Haven't checked the weather - don't care - can't wait!
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I've always been different with one foot over the line.....
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Leaving for CO this coming Thur. cant wait !
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We are leaving for south central Colorado in 14 days. Can't hardly wait.
A gun in the hand is worth more than the entire police force on the phone.
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The truck is loaded. Leaving for Gunnison at 7AM. A few days to "acclimate" before muzzleloader season!
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I'm leaving the 8th and I'm only 250 miles from my elk hunting area,but we will spend two days just pleasure riding the trails, taking in the sights and seeing where other camps are.It's the pits of going up the day before season, getting up at o-dark thrity and getting to your honey hole only to find some yahoo has set up a camp in the middle of it.
It's nice to watch the leaves turn from green to gold as we are up there. Plan to come back Monday after the season closes, unless we are unfortunate enough to tag out early
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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see below lol
Last edited by HighCountyHunter; 09/05/10.
"Take your kids hunting or you will be hunting for your kids" Uncle Ted
"We hunt because we can, we can because we hunt!"
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Deployments keep me away too much but every few years we get that perfect moment to get a hunt together for Colorado and this year is one of them. I cannot wait and I feel your excitement. If you are a hunter, when it gets this close to hunting season, and you don't get a hop in your step you need to see a doctor or just stop. 2nd Rifle can't come fast enough. Good luck.
"Take your kids hunting or you will be hunting for your kids" Uncle Ted
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Our trucks and trailers are loaded and we head out Tuesday morning. Can't wait. Got a ML e/s elk and a ML bear tag. Friends have archery elk tags.
Good luck everybody!
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan
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Two more nights at work, one day to get loaded and rested up and come noon thursday its Colorado or bust. Good luck to everyone.
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Leaving Friday....Whew Whoooo!!!
2 weeks of archery bull tag.
28 hour drive, going out is great but coming back is well you know.
Good Luck and bring back some great pics to share here.
There are no bad days hunting elk, some are just better.
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