OK here’s the deal. My Buddy and I have been hunting elk our whole lives here in the brush of Western Oregon. We got to talking the other day and decided that now that we are retired it might be fun to try something a little different. A hunt in the Rockies. Maybe someone out there can help us out with this. What we’re looking for is a spot and stalk rifle hunt in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Utah or maybe New Mexico or Arizona, I hear there are some nice bulls in New Mexico and Arizona. It has to be an OTC hunt because we don’t want to spend a lot of time and money applying for tags we’re probably not going to get anyway. We want it to be someplace with very light hunting pressure and a high density of elk. This is important because to many people just ruin everything and if there aren’t a lot of elk, then what’s the point. There has to be a good chance of getting a 300 in. bull and fair to midland chance at a 350 bull. I mean this is probably going to be a one time thing so if we’re going to do this we might as well get a big one, right. Now we don’t mind hiking a bit to get a shot at one but those suckers are big and very heavy so it needs to be somewhere we can get the UTV in to haul It out. Or at least get to within a couple of hundred feet if the ground is kind of flat. Now this hunt can’t be a late season hunt because we hear it gets kind of cold up in them hills during the late season. Lows in the 40’s at night are fine but much colder than that is just plain miserable and I don’t like a lot of wind either. I hate chasing my hat around all day. Now don’t get me wrong we’re not asking for anyone’s honey hole or anything like that but GPS coordinates of any place you have killed a nice one or even seen a lot of big bulls would be really handy.
Thanks in advance for any info. I almost forgot, if we could double up with, say, a Big Horn sheep hunt or something that would be great. You know maybe someplace we can spend a day or two hunting from the truck. Thanks again.
Thanks in advance for any info. I almost forgot, if we could double up with, say, a Big Horn sheep hunt or something that would be great. You know maybe someplace we can spend a day or two hunting from the truck. Thanks again.
