Anyone else excited?

[Sniper66]

How is your hunting season looking?

There are only two good things about August in Kansas. One..It's my birthday month and I get to eat all the home made ice cream and Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake that I can hold without feeling guilty. Two...dove season starts next month! So, August starts the count down to hunting, which begins September 1st. For me, dove season kicks off the hunting season and is followed by hunting squirrels, ducks, geese, pheasants, quail, deer, and turkeys. These seasons are interspersed with varmint shooting...prairie dogs and coyotes and fishing. You might get the impression that I don't do much else in the fall and early winter and you would be correct. How is your season shaping up? I have a fantastic place to shoot doves....cut wheat fields and water holes in western Kansas. At times I can't reload fast enough. The populations look very promising. In the next 3 weeks, I'll be looking over all my guns, making sure each one is in top working order. Then assessing my ammo stash. I'll contact landowners (friends) to make sure they are ready for my arrival. I'll sit in my den with the doors to my gun cabinet wide open struggling with decisions as to which guns to take on which trip. I do almost as much obsessing about hunting/shooting as I do the actual sport. How's it going on your end?

 

[Paul7]

I am past my prime now and Rocky Mountain hunts are for younger people. There was a time that I was giddy this time of year. From past experience I learned that all the fine gear in the world won't help if you are out of shape. I had a close friend die of a heart attack in Colorado back in 79. The man was 59 years old.

For your own good, please start getting in shape now. You might think that you are in decent physical shape, but 8000 feet of elevation will kick your butt. Especially if you are a lowlander.

Go, have a good time and make some memories. Some day you will have to settle on local hunts and will have only memories of the mountains.

Captcurt, there are hunts available for people such as yourself who can't do a rigorous public land hunt, I'm only 57 but have limited mobility and have gone on several of these hunts and taken 2 cow elk, you basically go with a guide who drives around until you spot one, you get out and take your shot. My guide had an 85 year old successful hunter. And before any easterners call that road hunting, where I hunted it is a half million acre property.

 

[Captcurt]

Captcurt, there are hunts available for people such as yourself who can't do a rigorous public land hunt, I'm only 57 but have limited mobility and have gone on several of these hunts and taken 2 cow elk, you basically go with a guide who drives around until you spot one, you get out and take your shot. My guide had an 85 year old successful hunter. And before any easterners call that road hunting, where I hunted it is a half million acre property.

Thanks Paul. I'm not an invalid yet but I am too out of shape to hunt elk right. I had a good friend die in camp in Colorado back in 79. He was 57 years old and was like a father to me. Every time I sit by a campfire it brings back old memories.

 

[Paul7]

Thanks Paul. I'm not an invalid yet but I am too out of shape to hunt elk right. I had a good friend die in camp in Colorado back in 79. He was 57 years old and was like a father to me. Every time I sit by a campfire it brings back old memories.

You know what you can do, a hunt isn't worth endangering your health.

 

[Robert]

So, after a long day of scouting a unit that was not what I put in for (left over tag) I think we have located an area that might be doable. Most of the unit is in country that would make a mountain goat dizzy, but we managed to find a decent spot.

4 more days of work and then off to the mountains!

 

[H&Hhunter]

Robert,

I feel highly enlightened after our scouting trip yesterday. I think that the elk in our area might well be enlightened too.

 

[wankerjake]

Good luck guys!

 

[Robert]

Well this pretty much sums up our hunt. It has been a bust so far. Going to give it another try this afternoon but will be pulling out in the morning. Saw some spectacular country with a great friend.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Gonna throw a last chance Hail Mary pass this afternoon. We are gonna push some dark timber during the heat of the day. Saw some really good looking stuff still hunting the dark stuff yesterday.

 

[wankerjake]

Good luck guys, knock one down!