Hunting Blog Links » colorado elk hunting http://hitchesunlimited.com/blog_hunting From Hitches Unlimited Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:01:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Elk I Could Have Shot http://californiahuntingtoday.com/hogblog/2009/10/13/the-elk-i-could-have-shot/ http://californiahuntingtoday.com/hogblog/2009/10/13/the-elk-i-could-have-shot/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:30:50 +0000 Phillip Loughlin http://californiahuntingtoday.com/hogblog/?p=1526 But I didn’t… my friend, Dave Allen, did it instead.

Due to the serious lack of work over the first six months of this year, I decided in June to cancel my CO elk hunt with my friend Rick at Dark Timber Outfitters this year.  It was a hard choice, in large part because this is one of those things I have been looking forward to for well over a year.   

The plan was for myself and my brother to go, and we were going to have a couple of friends, including Dave, along with us.  By June, only Dave was left in the hunt… and he was damned if he’d cancel!  I guess now he’s glad he went!   Dave's elk

According to Dave, the first couple of days were pretty much blown out, with strong winds screaming through the mountains.  On the third day, the weather gave them a break, and he and his guide headed down a creek bottom. 

He spotted this bruiser running the ridgeline with a couple of cows, and in fairly short order his 30-06 put the bull down. 

Here’s his bull, a really nice 280 class animal, and his first bull elk.  Congrats, Dave!  And yeah, I’m jealous!

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