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    First Time Colorado Elk Hunt - Looking for advice

    There are many, many threads addressing this, do a search of rokslide.
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    Diamond Creek zone tag available in Idaho

    Hard to believe they let you decide who to transfer it to, when there may be other more deserving folks out there....bizarre. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Colorado 2020-2026 Regulations

    2nd rifle was changed back to being 9 days and including 2 full weekends, no complaints from me. Original proposal was 7 days and start in the middle of the week, it wasn't my preferred option but I could live with it.
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    Flying with Meat

    Durn, that’s bothersome, sounds like it depends on who’s working the counter that day, I hate surprises at the airport! Got to think about this some more. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Flying with Meat

    This is new to me, I’ve always flown United and put frozen meat in my suitcase, this year I’m flying southwest and was planning to do the same thing, but looks like I might not be able to, I’ll have to call southwest to confirm. OK just got off the phone with Southwest, I told them I would be...
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    Swarovski EL 12x50 - Anyone using without tripod?

    I use my hiking sticks to steady my 12x leupplds, even a lightweight tripod is just too much weight for me Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Colorado unit 55

    That’s their MO, should be a rule to NEVER EVER respond to unit specific post, and that goes double for a first time poster. Wish there was a way to enforce that or else folks will keep growing the thread. Yes I do realize I’m wasting my breath. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Help for a first timer...

    Yeah, plenty of first timers on rokslide say they’re good for getting miles back in and hunting hard every day, they’re not lies, but they just don’t know what they’re in for. Until you’ve done it, there is no telling, if or when you’ll tap out. It’s real easy to say what you’ll do when you’re...
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    Public land OTC bull pictures

    Haha, I’m with you on that, elk hunting for me is too durn hard to pass up any legal bull, the smaller the better as it’s easier to get out of the woods. I honestly hope to kill the smallest legal bull on the mountain. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Getting hock smell on the meat

    Yeah I hear you, cow hunting just does nothing for me, no way am I working out year around on weighted hikes and spending time and money to hunt cows. Even though I’m strictly a meat hunter and don’t keep the antlers, there’s just something about hunting antlers. And yeah I do shoot whitetail...
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    Getting hock smell on the meat

    I still wind up needing to grab the lower hind leg though to move it and the elk around. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Getting hock smell on the meat

    Ok, let me explain...Yeah, rutting bull smell.....in the course of muscling an elk around and boning it out, I invariably have to grab the highly pungent lower back leg multiple times to maneuver the elk around and then I’m grabbing meat, thus transferring some of that rutting bull smell to the...
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    Light and packable 65mm spotter

    Every time I read one of the pieces fawning over the latest greatest thing, in this case a spotting scope I feel an itch to check it out and maybe buy a spotter. But then I catch myself...my 12x binocs work fine, are lightweight and are paid for and I don’t need a spotter, I packed a swarovski...
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    Getting hock smell on the meat

    When I get an elk down, I’m normally by myself and invariably I grab a hock and then grab some meat in the course of boning out, so I run across cuts that have that hock smell. Its’s dang hard when muscling around an elk, not to do that at some point. How do other folks not run into this issue...
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    HECS suit

    Yeah, one day 20 years ago, I woke up and said no more buying junk. Did the same with supplements, but that was only 10 years ago.....god the money I pissed away on sups. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    HECS suit

    Thx for making me laugh! I’ve heard they circle downwind, then once they have you located they stampede in to you, running over everything in their path to get to you first. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Meal Logistics While Elk Hunting

    Fortunately I rarely see bears where I camp in SW CO, but I do keep food in a bear proof container just in case. I cook and keep food in camp. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Colorado GMU 81 connection

    Not to derail the thread, but durn, sounds like a nightmare, glad I don’t hunt there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Is a 25 degree bag enough for September in Colorado?

    No one can say, depends on you and the weather and your ground pad. During 2nd rifle I use a -20 bag, that’s too much for some. I can always open it up if I get hot, but I got tired of freezing at night. Yeah I run cold. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Elk Quarter Weight - Early Season Cow

    Regarding packout weight and exaggerating the size of an elk.... I ALWAYS hope to kill the smallest legal (CO) bull on the mountain to minimize the pack out effort. I don’t do mounts unless it was B&C or better, which I’ve never seen. I don’t inflate the size of any elk I kill, they’ve all been...
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