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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
We get the elk 1/2 broken down and SIOGH shows up. He must know the distance between his thumb tip and pinky tip to the 1/16” because he flips his hand up and down the antlers and tells me it’s right smack dab in the middle of my goal range, and he ends up correct. My helpers pack quarters to...- Dinkshooter
- Post #124
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
Not to mention he’s dead and CPR is unlikely to revive him🤪 Old 7UP back in ‘23 he is!- Dinkshooter
- Post #109
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
I certainly should stop worrying about how early in the hunt it happened. It’s elk hunting and the action could turn off tomorrow like a light switch. This would be an incredibly hard hunt with no bugling. I should also stop worrying about the score as it’s unlikely I’d ever get him measured...- Dinkshooter
- Post #107
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
SIOGH texts back and says it’s too late, he is already in the unit, asks for a waypoint and is headed our way. I look at the bools teef and he certainly meets my old bull goal.- Dinkshooter
- Post #106
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
We get to the bool and talk quietly about how it all went down because he was so far back he couldn’t see any of it. I’m still being an arsewipe in my head about it all. We talk about how big he might be. He thinks I’m guessing a bit to low. He’s probably right but watching the bool rut...- Dinkshooter
- Post #105
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
I wait a minute or 2 to make sure he's dead, then head back towards my brother. On the way there I have another not so proud moment, 2 in the last 5 minutes, I'm on a roll. I become one of those guys I dislike the most. I'm already beating myself up for shooting because he's not big enough...- Dinkshooter
- Post #103
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
Now I’ve thought about omitting this part of the story but it is what it is. If 6 months before, someone told me you could spine a bool elk with archery tackle I wouldn’t have hardly believed it. Yet with the whack, his back legs hit the ground. Luckily for me, I’m a wanker (maybe menace)...- Dinkshooter
- Post #102
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
We pick a bool that sounds decent to the SE and head that way. The wind has picked up a ton, hard to hear them bugle but way better for sneakin around. Around 9 AM we get up 80-90 yards or so from a bool. He bugles ever so often, but stays in one spot surrounded by dead Pinion trees. I...- Dinkshooter
- Post #99
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
The next day I have a super infamous original gangster Hunttaker (SIOGH) coming up to the unit to show me some specific spots he thinks might pay off. He’s actually scouting some place else for his elk tag and despite telling him to stay there he is coming up anyway. Good egg! We wake up and...- Dinkshooter
- Post #92
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
Clearly we need to head West. The wind is out of the NE so we head West early to get hooked around them for the evening hunt. What happened after that was an evening of total elk chaos. Bugling, glunking, crashing, the big show, the good stuff. The elk slowly rut fested their way back...- Dinkshooter
- Post #91
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
It’s mid day so we find shade and take a nap. We can start to hear faint bugles to the West. Around 2:30 pm we are completely woken up by a disrespectful sixer randomly walking by bugling the whole way.- Dinkshooter
- Post #90
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
There is nothing going on in the near vicinity, so i head back to the truck. I head up the road to a trick tank I really liked the looks of while scouting earlier. There is not much going on there, no fresh sign at all. It has been raining a ton up until the season and the elk are hitting...- Dinkshooter
- Post #89
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
Opening morning wake up. There were bulls bugling around camp most of the night. You’d think with all the planning and angst I’d have a direction or place in mind. I do not. I actually just get in the truck and start driving on some main gravel road East. Maybe something will cross the road...- Dinkshooter
- Post #76
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
The plan is to hunt all 14 days of the season. It would be ideal to go a bit early but it’s not in the cards. I’m going to get there the day before and have time to maybe go out that evening a bit for a look see. My brother is coming from AK to help the first week but will not be there until...- Dinkshooter
- Post #59
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
I get back I’m a wreck, wife is sure I’m going to blow a gasket. Tells me to relax and just enjoy it, she clearly has no clue🤪 I get up and get dressed for work one day, end of the day I notice the level of my insanity.- Dinkshooter
- Post #57
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
So where was I? Oh, heading into September with marginal shooting ability and confidence. I also have severe anxiety over not really knowing where any big bools may live within the unit. Most say “relax, they’re all over the unit”. I decide against that and do the only rational thing...- Dinkshooter
- Post #56
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
This is correct, the social media influencer checks are not rolling in yet so must still punch the clock.- Dinkshooter
- Post #54
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
Back home and more calls more waypoints plus the ones from the scouting trip.....silly. The first big problem for the hunt starts rearing its ugly head. With the bow set up I have, that I thought I was reasonably accurate with, I cannot get it tuned and I am pretty much spraying arrows all...- Dinkshooter
- Post #39
- Forum: Elk
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Just a Poor Colorado kid!
In the end we saw a few elk, only 2 giants and snapped a terrible pic of them. We did focus on life skills, such as how to hold the Jack Light steady….- Dinkshooter
- Post #38
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