Colorado Springs Neighborhood Animals

[Matthunts7]

Thought I’d post some pictures from the local west Colorado Springs animals I have seen the last few years. Pretty amazing the genes and size of some of the bucks around here that get to grow to a mature age! Just thought I’d share to get everyone excited about the upcoming fall! Been mule deer and blacktail hunting since I could walk and saw more big bucks in the first week I lived here than I had in my life.

 

[MTLabrador]

Those are some uffda class mule deer

 

[Matthunts7]

Those are some uffda class mule deer

Pretty crazy how big and old they get here. They just show up everywhere during the rut here.

 

[MTLabrador]

Pretty crazy how big and old they get here. They just show up everywhere during the rut here.

Some big town bucks where I live too. They’re fun to watch.

 

[Matthunts7]

Some big town bucks where I live too. They’re fun to watch.

Yeah they really are neat to see and to see them year after year. That one big heavy heavy Forkie has been around since I moved out here and looks like he needs a cane and walker. He’s an old old dude. His horns have gotten shorter and heavier each year. Curious to see if he made it through last winter and what he will look like this year.

 

[rtraverdavis]

That buck in the 10th picture, the one in velvet standing in the shade... my god.

Also, pretty neat (and strange) seeing bighorns in the neighborhood too. Have there been problems with the sheep interacting with people’s hobby farms?

 

[Huntkook]

Hunt unit/area please.

 

[Rebar_Guy]

Great pictures

 

[Shangobango]

The first ram pic, I just can't get out of my head that he is thinking "Come at me bro". God, I'm an idiot.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[The Yetti]

Yeah they really are neat to see and to see them year after year. That one big heavy heavy Forkie has been around since I moved out here and looks like he needs a cane and walker. He’s an old old dude. His horns have gotten shorter and heavier each year. Curious to see if he made it through last winter and what he will look like this year.

Biggest buck I have ever seen was laying in the flower bed of a house up around the Broadmoor. Just a massive many pointer!

 

[diamond hitch]

I got up this morning at 5 ( why I don't know) and there are 14 bulls in my hay field. If I haze them out with the rifle or fireworks I run the risk of pissing off the the rest of the house and neighborhood. If I put on clothes and walk them out of the field I get a brisk and envigerating walk but I just as well take a curry comb. They know I can't do anything. Hence the foundation of October revenge hunting. My nicely harrowed front field is very properly aeriated by elk feet. Just wait till the clover comes up. Maybe the answer is a paintball gun. That way I could mark them and get extra satisfaction when I kill a marked elk in October.

I guess it is the smugness when they stand there at 40 yds and look like "what are you going to do about it?". Yard elk are pretty but damn annoying and then they are gone before hunting season. Sorry for my morning bitch.

 

[chuckchili]

I was raised in Colorado Springs and my mom still lives there. Two deer fawns were born in her front yard last year and she always has bears sniffing around. Its like a wildlife refuge.

 

[LuketheDog]

I'd have no problem shooting a "yard deer" on our 5ac. property, but I may draw the line at a "yard ram"

 

[westbranch]

We have quite a few whitetail does in our neighborhood. Bucks usually start showing up in late Oct but usually young basket racks.
Our dog tried to chase a doe out of the fenced backyard last week, like he has several times before, and the doe faced him down and he came running scared to the house! Must have had a fawn nearby and wasn't going to put up with that crap from a dog.

 

[MarvB]

Damn son, I didn't know that Scott's made a "Rack Builder" for yards as well. Thanks for the share! Impressive

 

[AggieHunter]

Woodland Park is the same way with deer and bear. Plan is to draw a tag and just follow them from my house across the road into National Forest land.

 

[Nathan]

Never forget being at Carson 2 days and getting the call we had a moose in the motor pool. No clue how it got in there.

Our apartment was up near the broadmoor and you’d trip over the mule deer going to do laundry at night.

But the thing I miss most about Colorado Springs is Monica’s fish tacos. Best I’ve had from coast to coast.

 

[Mallardsx2]

Not a chance. There are studies that one pump jack in the middle of nowhere will completely alter the mule deers migration...

 

[Matthunts7]

Some big town bucks where I live too. They’re fun to watch.

We have quite a few whitetail does in our neighborhood. Bucks usually start showing up in late Oct but usually young basket racks.
Our dog tried to chase a doe out of the fenced backyard last week, like he has several times before, and the doe faced him down and he came running scared to the house! Must have had a fawn nearby and wasn't going to put up with that crap from a dog.

Our neighborhood is definitely the doe hangout all year. Then during fall it starts looking like a college frat party with all the dudes chasing girls and fighting each other. Then the just go away!

 

[Matthunts7]

Never forget being at Carson 2 days and getting the call we had a moose in the motor pool. No clue how it got in there.

Our apartment was up near the broadmoor and you’d trip over the mule deer going to do laundry at night.

But the thing I miss most about Colorado Springs is Monica’s fish tacos. Best I’ve had from coast to coast.View attachment 146192

It is funny to see them on base. We would see antelope on Schreiver. Monica’s is great food!! Was that buck on base? My wife sees elk all over on the ranges down south.