Elk season starts Saturday

[elkhuntCO]

My elk season starts this saturday morning. We are supposed to get some snow this week, so hopefully it will
make it a little easier to find the elk. It has been really warm so far this hunting season and it is making it difficult to find any elk. I am hoping this storm will change that. It is my 12 yr old son's first elk hunt, so hopefully the weather gods will smile on us and help us find him a bull.

[Jes]

Good luck on the hunt. Does the boy have any idea what it is like packing out a big elk?

[rsdonb]

It seems that from 8 to 80 go elk hunting here in Arizona. Blasted streets are either loaded with trucks with ATVs or empty. Every where I go it seems someone is practicing elk calls. oooooooh Boy do they taste good.

[Debray]

Best of Luck to you and your son.
Our deer gun season starts here (in Ohio) in December.
Archery season is in now, I plan on going out Saturday also.
The peak of the rut will start here around the second week of November.

[elkhuntCO]

We got snow all the way down to 4500 feet elevation last night. Only about an inch or so here in town but
there should be over a foot above 9500 feet, which should push the elk out of the dark timber and make them a little easier to find. My son hunted with us last yea,r without a rifle, but we didn't get an elk so he has not had the "pleasure" of packing out an elk yet. Should be a great experience for him. He has a total of 3 elk tags for this fall, so he should get a lot of elk hunting experience. I know I am going to enjoy the hell out of it.

Semper Fi

[elkhuntCO]

Well, we started out seeing elk Sat. morning and my friend from work killed a bull before 0800. We did not get a shot opportunity for my young uns but the still ahd a great time over the weekend. Another of the guys in camp killed a bull on Mon. morning and when we went in to pack it out that afternoon, I spotted a bull above us and put the sneak on them. I killed him from 300yds with two rounds from my 30.06. He only went about 5 yds after the first round and was dead before he hit the ground after the second. Just a small 4x4 but he will fill the freezer.

Semper Fi

[Scarecrow]

It seems that from 8 to 80 go elk hunting here in Arizona. Blasted streets are either loaded with trucks with ATVs or empty. Every where I go it seems someone is practicing elk calls. oooooooh Boy do they taste good.

you got that right. been a few years since I have had an elk steak... and dying for some jerky too!

[Scarecrow]

Well, we started out seeing elk Sat. morning and my friend from work killed a bull before 0800. We did not get a shot opportunity for my young uns but the still ahd a great time over the weekend. Another of the guys in camp killed a bull on Mon. morning and when we went in to pack it out that afternoon, I spotted a bull above us and put the sneak on them. I killed him from 300yds with two rounds from my 30.06. He only went about 5 yds after the first round and was dead before he hit the ground after the second. Just a small 4x4 but he will fill the freezer.

Semper Fi

nice! congratulations. any pics you could post?

[ricbak]

Very Good.. And as Sarah would say, ........ Plenty of room next to the mashed potatoes....

[rugerfan.64]

I'm liking that next to the mashed taters idea,,,,mmmhhhmmm