The Elk I Could Have Shot

Posted by Phillip Loughlin on October 13, 2009 under bull elk, colorado elk hunting, dark timber outfitters, elk hunting | Comments are off for this article

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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Quickie Post – Elk Jones

Posted by Phillip Loughlin on October 22, 2008 under dark timber outfitters, elk hunting, jesses hunting and outdoors, montrose co, myoutdoortv | Comments are off for this article

Yeah, this is a real short one, but I’ve absolutely gotta spout off…

I have got a SERIOUS elk jones right now.  I’ve been reading the reports on Jesse’s Hunting and Outdoors from the guys coming in, as archery season passes and rifle seasons are getting underway.  I’ve also been glued to MyOutdoorTV a lot lately, whenever I can get a break from work. 

I didn’t get my elk last year, and didn’t get a chance to elk hunt this year with everything else going on.  What makes it even worse is that I now have this Mathews Drenalin, and I’ve totally changed my attitude toward bowhunting…  the memory of that bull bugling in my face last year has me totally flashing back to that Colorado scrub oak last September. 

Anyway, I have no choice but wait until next fall.  At this time next year, I should be wrapping up a CO rifle hunt with my brother and a couple of friends back at Dark Timber Outfitters in Montrose.  But man… that sure seems an awful long ways off! 

 

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