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  1. GrantK

    The fun is just starting when you pull the trigger- a sheep story

    As it tends to do summer went by all too quickly and even though I would have preferred another month of scouting it was time to hunt I hiked in on Saturday morning, with the season starting on Tuesday. A friend and his two teenage sons joined me for the first couple of days to help scout. That...
  2. GrantK

    The fun is just starting when you pull the trigger- a sheep story

    the last couple of weekends of summer were rainy and visibility was low, as much as I wanted to get eyes on more rams all I was seeing was fog and elk...
  3. GrantK

    The fun is just starting when you pull the trigger- a sheep story

    I had planned for this to be a solo adventure from the start, figuring any help would be a bonus, but also really wanting to do everything myself just for the satisfaction of having gone it alone on a really tough hunt...In early August, I got an email from @Khunter with the RMBS, asking if I...
  4. GrantK

    The fun is just starting when you pull the trigger- a sheep story

    And even an occasional herd of Rams...
  5. GrantK

    The fun is just starting when you pull the trigger- a sheep story

    And bears dancing with trail signs... and some more wildflowers...
  6. GrantK

    The fun is just starting when you pull the trigger- a sheep story

    I was able to log miles on foot and time behind the glass almost every weekend from early June until season started, finding sheep a handful of times but not in the numbers that I was hoping for, by the time I was going in for the hunt I had 22 days in and had seen rams on only a couple...
  7. GrantK

    The fun is just starting when you pull the trigger- a sheep story

    I don’t live far from the unit but didn’t know it as well as I would have liked so I began scouting as soon as the snow was melting off, concentrating mostly on identifying good glassing spots and the best ways to access them, starting as soon as the snow was coming off in early June I devoted...
  8. GrantK

    The fun is just starting when you pull the trigger- a sheep story

    After much research I switched up my bighorn application this year, aiming to strike a balance between a challenging but easier-to-draw hunt while still having a chance at a quality ram. I've applied for a CO sheep tag since I was 16, minus a couple of years when finances were too tight to swing...
  9. GrantK

    Ditching GoHunt

    Honestly both OnX and gohunt are far behind the curve in mapping apps, Caltopo can do everything both combined can do plus LIDAR, and more layers than you can possibly use, plus it's half the cost, or use Gaia, far more simple interface and way better basemap... I have Onx because everyone has...
  10. GrantK

    Need advice on a tripod and head

    I've got one of these, https://leofotooutdoors.com/collections/sa-series-x-version/products/leofoto-sa-x-ma-40x-rifle-tripod-with-dynamic-ball-head-set-sa-x-3-8 Bomber and light for as heavy duty as it is, you can usually pick one up on Ebay for a fair bit cheaper than the official retail...
  11. GrantK

    Breakneck Billy: A Goat Hunt On Crack

    Great storytelling @trb! even though I knew the end result you had me on the hook the whole time...
  12. GrantK

    Shank it? or Crank it? Only the Billy knows

    have you tried rapping on that cord with the figure 8? you probably want to have a method for adding friction dialed or it's going to be exciting, especially if you have a goat in tow... also, if you do have a goat in tow you want to clip it directly to the device, not to yourself...
  13. GrantK

    Shooting from a tripod

    I've been using a leophoto with a ball head, super bomber, although a blatant ripoff of the USA-made RRS...personally I wouldn't get something with a center column, the farther away from the spread legs you are the shakier it gets.
  14. GrantK

    Dall's Sheep and Mountain Caribou Raffle

    Been enjoying the silver state thread over on RS, I've got the sheep bug really bad so it's nice to see that it's possible to hit the lottery on raffle tags!
  15. GrantK

    Pink camo, #dadbodhunter, and a whole lotta stupid!

    Ice axe is off limits until November, they didn't put that on the label?
  16. GrantK

    Public Service Announcement

    I had assumed people had some restraint in those units, I just looked and I was wrong... bad place to be a 4 year old ram these days it appears...
  17. GrantK

    Shakeout / Scout Hunt

    If you got a bark back to your cow all the elk probably didn't like something and wanted you to show yourself, usually for me that happens when the elk sees something but can't confirm it with the wind, FWIW I've never had any luck getting one at that level of alert to come closer. As to the...
  18. GrantK

    Ranging while crawling/stalking

    If you just have antler tips sticking up, or really any animal in a flat spot where it's hard to hit with the rangefinder a lot of the time you can use the scan function of the rangefinder and get a range, scan past and see the number drop from 85 to 55 and that's likely your range, try coming...
  19. GrantK

    Solo Elk Hunt in Colorado: Am I About to Embark on a Glorious Disaster?

    I'm at the point where I go on elk hunts I know are going to be bad just to get more time in chasing elk, and honestly usually get a bull in spite of everyone saying it's going to be bad... as many have said the best way to figure it out is to go, it's going to be hard, but if, or when, in the...
  20. GrantK

    Do you like my elk hunt plan?

    I wouldn't toss out the lowlands, if there's cover and food there's likely elk, most hunters are probably going to be up at treeline, if you can glass you can find out if there are elk pretty quick... I also wouldn't limit yourself to north/northeast aspects, even in early October elk may be on...
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