Recent content by elkhunterCO

I use a 4-wheeler a little. I use one to carry all my stuff to camp. I will use one to get the elk out if it's legal. I very rarely hunt off of one. Now it seems that the whole craze is the side by sides. We get many, many out of staters that zip up and down the forest service roads on them.

How old do you suppose it is? My uncle has a similar or possibly the same model on his old elk rifle.

Took my 336 30-30 out this evening for a deer hunt. I put a little leupold 2-7 scope on it a couple weeks ago when I decided I would take it after the bucks instead of the heavy and long 300 WM that I had carried up and down the mountains for 2nd elk season. I had a little mulie buck in the...

Awesome story. There is no feeling in the world like spotting a nice bull and going after him. When you realize you are in position to take that first shot time stands still and instincts take over. The moment you decide to squeeeeeze that trigger because a cow in the herd raises her head to...

I always try to shoot elk just behind and a little low from the shoulder. I shot one bull broadside at about 75 yards with a 30-06 fall immediately then get up and start jumping like a bronco. The second shot put him down. I shot a bull at a little over 300 yards quartering away with a 300...

I've seen more snakes of all kinds the past couple months in south central Colorado. Lots of rattlers on a job in La Garita. About 8 or 10 Red Racers around my place. Quite a few bull snakes too. One thing about it, every one of them was a big 4 foot plus snake.

I hunted elk a lot of years with an 06. I've been using a 300 for awhile now and couldn't say that it kills the elk any better. It gives a little more range (probably enough to be overconfident), although I haven't yet taken an elk over 400 yards. I just like 300 WM. I like 06 too.

Put a pork chop in a pan, fill the pan with soda. Let sit for a few minutes. Drain out the soda and look at your pork chop. I don't eat pigs anymore.

I would get 300 WM. If I had a nickel for everytime someone said 6.5 when discussing the 30 calibers. Well, I'd have a buck by the time this thread is over.

Perhaps the original owner sold it because it doesn't feed well. I sold a Remington 700 shortly after it cost me a shot at a nice bull elk because it wouldn't chamber a round about every 3rd or 4th time.

So how does the SXP compare to the 1300? Are they basically the same?

I know a guy from Texas who comes up here every year for the past 20+. He hunts elk pretty hard, studies his maps, gets back in the elk country. He told me he has never seen a real live elk in the wild. He might start a forum one day on the most MENTALLY demanding hunts.

I don't trust spell check either. Especially when it lets people get called elks like in post 63.

deers' yup, gettin me that squggley red line under thet word

My wife and I were having a discussion tonight about animal heads on the wall. She says she can't understand why people do it, not at all in a negative way, just that to her it represents death. I told her that in my eyes it represents "the hunt" for people and an admiration for the...