Last Dicth, Last Weekend Effort

[jray5740]

Its been awesome reading all of the success stories from the forum for the season so far. Myself, I have Archery Elk Hunted in my unit 13 days of the season now and have seen a substantial amount of elk I could have harvested with a rifle, but the oak brush and locust are so think in my unit I cant seem to get a shot with my bow. I did call in a spike last weekend to 12 yards, but my unit is not legal for spikes and I have a hard time taking that shot even if it was legal, something about it does not feel right. At any rate, I'm reaching out to the forum for a last ditch effort place closer to the metro area I can try next weekend to maybe harvest a cow and feed the family for another year. Normally I would have been willing to go wherever in the state but resources from 13 days hunting and many miles of driving back and forth are running low. I have never been a horn hunter but I buy the either sex tag just in case...........but at this point in the season I have hunted hard (GPS ped counter says I have walked 43.3 miles for the season) and have not gotten my shot yet. I cant head back to my unit this year as its too far and cant commit 3 days necessary to hunt it properly between driving, packing in, etc....

Anyone have any ideas where I might be able to drum up a cow the weekend of the 23rd-24th? Thanks for the consideration everyone!

 

[SHTF]

Thats Elk hunting for you right there. We hunt minimum 2.5 hours away from Denver all the spots we go. I feel your pain. We are going back out for the last week to try and get something going. Hope we can get into some action.

 

[Tsnider]

ive done 8 days and 80 miles, and have seen very few elk. starting saturday ill be chasing them in a few different spots, and traveling all around to new areas i havent scouted (was planning my wedding all summer, time was limited) and hoping to come across some. ill be a mix of driving all over my surrounding units and hiking my ass off. car camping and tipi camping. give it hell!

 

[mrbillbrown]

Thats Elk hunting for you right there. We hunt minimum 2.5 hours away from Denver all the spots we go. I feel your pain. We are going back out for the last week to try and get something going. Hope we can get into some action.

And some of us are making the second 12hr trip out there for the Hail Mary last few days archery attempt

 

[SHTF]

And some of us are making the second 12hr trip out there for the Hail Mary last few days archery attempt

Yeah but you gotta admit we have a blast =-)

 

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

I made the 15-17 hr drive twice and have 11+ days a field but the elk win this round. If it were easy it'd be called killing.

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