Opening day.......Would you?

[Coveyleader]

I've gotten to the point, it will take a decent OTC bull for me to drop the string the first week. I'm focused on cows and then I will chase some of the same elk I've passed to enjoy the September.

I will say, the hardest part for me is getting up at about day 5-6 after chasing them for almost a week. Then those slam dunk elk start to question your decisions.

I will be out for the opener, and it's killing me as this has been the best year for elk in there in a long time.

 

[Lurch12]

Wouldn't be a question for me. Send it

 

[Gerbdog]

I've gotten to the point, it will take a decent OTC bull for me to drop the string the first week. I'm focused on cows and then I will chase some of the same elk I've passed to enjoy the September.

I will say, the hardest part for me is getting up at about day 5-6 after chasing them for almost a week. Then those slam dunk elk start to question your decisions.

I will be out for the opener, and it's killing me as this has been the best year for elk in there in a long time.

Well if you'd just send over a pin, i'd be happy to get in there and take a look at let you know my opinion if i think you should take a shot at any of them the first week.....

 

[BRTreedogs]

I have so many people id take joy in helping i almost consider my tag an inconvenience.

So pretty much if its legal its down.

 

[Coveyleader]

I have so many people id take joy in helping i almost consider my tag an inconvenience.

So pretty much if its legal its down.

With a bull like that in your Avatar, I bet you do well! I've taken a lot of guys out to get their first. I actually prefer to take them out on a rifle hunt so I don't have to work so hard.

 

[BRTreedogs]

With a bull like that in your Avatar, I bet you do well! I've taken a lot of guys out to get their first. I actually prefer to take them out on a rifle hunt so I don't have to work so hard.

Haha I appreciate that. But another very selfless hunter called that bull in for me. All I did was manage to drag my rear end thru the woods long enough for something to happen.

He's taught me alot about paying it foreword.

I really just want it to come together for my wifey this year.

 

[Dos Perros]

I've been hunting big game for a dozen years or so, not a lot, but I've only ever killed animals that were personal bests, or at least debatable on the hoof that they were (I had one deer I misjudged a bit and he ended up being a few inches smaller than a previous deer). It's really just to challenge myself. Sometimes I eat tags, sometimes I end up filling them on cows/does. It's not a hard rule and I don't expect to follow it for the rest of my life, but that's just how it is right now.

 

[RyanCmns]

This is my 1st year with a stick bow I have yet to see something I’d pass on but hopes are high

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[sndmn11]

You didnt say you had a deer tag

They just have to get a few hundred feet higher in elevation to hit where they turn into elk.

 

[Coveyleader]

This is my 1st year with a stick bow I have yet to see something I’d pass on but hopes are high

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All day every day on that one!

 

[Backyard]

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[CWM Bhntr]

I would. Good shot opportunity. Indeed. Taking my son this year on his first, he would also.

 

[Jwknutson17]

Hard not to when they are so hard to come by. I regret not shooting a few bulls opening few days just to not fill a tag that year. I would rather shoot ten 200-240" bulls 10 years in a row then go 1/10 on a 360+ bull.

 

[wild_ryno]

Opening day, you have this young 5x5 in front of you............. Taking this shot? You have 20 days to hunt throughout September? 3 bear tags, two elk tags in your pocket?

Not opening day

 

[Paul Cordova]

Yes sir, letting it fly!!!

 

[trevvamos]

Sent it on a spike opening morning...Backstrap is on the traeger as we speak

 

[joshbazz]

I'd take the shot.... I can be picky after I bag my first big game animal...

 

[NEO]

Dude 2 elk tags in your pocket. I'd let it rip. I think you'll be kicking yourself. Plus a week in the elk woods your body starts to slow down and hump big loads of elk meat becomes cumbersome. My theory is do it will you still have stamina.

 

[Ztait]

I like to eat! Shoot ‘em



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[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

I'd drop it. Plenty of tags and hunting after that and the prrssure is off once meat is in the freezer.

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