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Already practicing and thinking about supplies etc.

Anyone have any great advice or pictures of elk from CO.

All the great advice you'll ever need can be found on the threads on this forum. Should be enough to keep you busy and keep your head spinning until September rolls around.

Good luck!

1. Before you practice shooting each day, sprint 100 yards uphill while holding your breath. When you start seeing the bright lights right before you lose consciousness, blow on your bugle as hard as you can while your friend punches you in the gut. At that point you can take your practice shot.

2. Start saving up for a tag for Sept. 2015!

Don't forget to take lots of pictures. You will have a blast and it will be a trip you will want to remember.

Good luck!

LOL:-D

My darling fiancee will take a really keen interest in my practice sessions if I adopt this 'ultra' approach...

Joking aside, I will have to start building in some 'pressured' shooting sequences into my regimen...angles, positions, ability/inability to breath/focus...

Practice shooting from awkward positions, like on both knees.

Get in a good set up BEFORE you start calling, it can and sometimes does happen fast.

Elknut is you friend, get his DVDs and Play Book. Read, listen and practice.

Get a "pocket sized" camera. Keep it handy and take lots of photos.

Practice judging distances, sometimes there is no time to use a rangefinder.

I'm giving serious thought to taking the first week as a guided hunt and then second week DIY; still trying to figure where though

Josh

First time elk hunting for me so I wasn't yet interested in the SPIKE camp. Did that caribou hunting and it was quite an experience. This 50 year old guy like a solid roof over his head.

Picked CO because it was easy for the 3 of us to get tags. We go on a trip every year out west and mid west. Been deer hunting in MT,SD and IL the past 10 years and just wanted to try something different.

nothin better than sharin it with family.Took the son along last year, his first trip.We hunt colorado public land and a PY bull is truly a gift on this dirt.He got his gift!270" first bull he ever called in.Packin a critter out on ur back is alot of work for an old man like me, but when its your boys it sure is sweet!Enjoy the mountains and the time u have with family.Good Huntin!

Well, unless you get one of those weather patterns where it socks in for 4-5 straight days and snows 14" of wet cement! Then the old hard-side trailer or wall tent feels awfully good.

;-)

Hope you have a great CO elk hunt, Will!

45, 52 and 65 yards. All three(suprisingly) were shot through the heart. Heart was just a lot of luck but hitting in around middle of the chest was from the 1000's of arrows in the back yard.

Thinking of switching from the Slick Tricks to Razor tricks and keeping everything else the same.

The Bear Anarchy set at 65 should be just the ticket.

Guess I better start running up a hill and then shoot some.

Greg

ELKman the picture is Dec '07, the apron much earlier.... :)

Gave me hope for future (I'm 53)!