TCcowboy
FNG
Evening everyone first post on here after looking around a while found some good info on here. Well here goes, I have hunted most of my life, but only one in my family that does. I am 62 now. I live in Southeast Tx and hunt National Forest and some private leases for deer and hogs. Like most hunters I have dreamed of going out west/ Colorado mainly to hunt Elk and Mule Deer. Just to hunt and live the experience. The issue is I have no one to go with to help manage the logistics and work involved in the hunt and can’t go it alone especially for Elk, and wife wouldn’t allow it anyway. I have looked at DIY drop camps but they all want at least 2-4 hunters, no solo. Private land ranches are too expensive, and I would never even consider a high fence hunt, only fair chase. I have felt this want pressing on me lately and for the first time I have opened an account with Colorado division of Wildlife and purchased preference points this year for Elk and Deer. Felt good at least it is a start. I plan to buy points again next year and try and draw a 2 point unit in 2026 and maybe like a lot of you have suggested try and do a OTC Elk in 2025. Anyway I am looking for anyone any age that I could maybe meet and team up with as hunting partners and hopefully friends. I am 62 but can still work hard and pull my share of the load. I have a truck a 18’ camper and UTV to provide. Also would love to reciprocate and take a partner on a Pineywoods Whitetail hunt and/ or big hogs. I have a grandson who is 12 I am mentoring but by the time he is 20 , to maybe take trips with me I will be 70 and maybe that is too old to be in the Mountains, I don’t know. Hope this is not an inappropriate post. Been dreaming about Elk hunting since I received a North American Big Game hunting book when I was 15 . I hope to at least once sit on a mountain side with a rifle in my lap on a cold morning and glass for Elk/ Mule Deer . Thank you in advance for reading this, and good hunting! To you and yours. TC
