I have chased Colorado elk for 4 years and it came together this year for a great Public Land, DIY hunt. I took an awesome 6x6 with a muzzle loader. I have never been as excited on a hunt as this one. Shot it at 6:30pm and got back to camp with the first load at 3:00am. Worth every minute of it.
Nice bull ! What unit he come from ?
Wow! Nice bull anywhere...congrats.
Very nice!
Nothing like an early ML elk hunt.
Awesome bull. Congrats!
Roy
Worth every minute of it, congrats!
nice'en, super.
Details please.
Congrats,
Congrats! Very nice bull.
Bull to be proud of, though any public land bull in Colorado is one to be proud of in my book. Well done.
Thanks for the great pictures! Keeping the rest of us fired up to get to hunt soon! Congratulations on the nice nice bull!
Congrats, muzzleloader makes it even cooler
Congrats, I know how hard you've worked for it the last few years
Congrats on your first elk.
Thats quite a brute for a first one too!
Great story.
Nice bull! Well worth the wait!
Nice bull ! What unit he come from ?
Nice bull!
Aviator: often asked, rarely answered on an open forum for obvious reasons.
Thanks for all the response. I wish I could say I hunted that bull for several days and finally closed the deal, but truth is, he was trailing 8 cows in an area I had only hunted a few times. Never saw him before that day. Was a long shot, using 50 cal. CVA Wolf, Blackhorn Powder and TC 370 grain maxi ball. I hit him a little back first shot. I climbed to search for blood but found none. I began tracking hoof prints and jumped him at 15 yards. He ran across an open area and the second shot was just to the right of the bung hole, traveling into his chest. That was the shot that quickly put him down. He did go maybe one hundred yards further going into the aspens. I found him shortly after searching the aspens. As deadly as a 50 cal. muzzle loader appears, it seems like a BB gun when confronting a hughe animal like an elk.