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A short season it was. At first light this morning I launched a 180 grain Hornady SST through a nice cow at 265 yards. It was a double lung exit with a great blood trail. ![[Linked Image]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f217/phaseolus/073.jpg) I think anyone could have followed this blood trail, about 75 yards long. ![[Linked Image]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f217/phaseolus/079.jpg)
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Congrats. You gotta love the snow for that!
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Congrats, very nice I'm going up tomorrow to unit 18 leftover cow tag. I can only hope there is snow up there.
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Congrats on the cow!
Whereabouts?
Coyote Hunter - NRA Patriot Life, NRA Whittington Center Life, GOA, DAD - and I VOTE!
No, I'm not a Ruger bigot - just an unabashed fan of their revolvers, M77's and #1's.
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Congrats on some good eats!
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Congrats on the cow!
Whereabouts? Grand Mesa slopes, western Colorado
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gotta love the snow congrats on the elk Ron
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I drew a second choice either sex tag for unit3/301. It's not an area that I have hunted for elk, and since there wasn't snow I was pretty worried about how it would turn out. Last Friday and Saturday The Grand Mesa had a pretty good storm, up to 22 inches in places. It pushed elk down into an area that I was familiar with and live next to. So, I went down to the DOW office and exchanged my 3/301 tag for a unit 41 tag since there were leftover cow tags. It saved me a bunch of gas I was able to tag a nice cow.
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Loves me some blood trailing in the snow! Nice cow.
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Looks like some good eating right there. Great pic too.
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