Anyone have experience hunting this piece of ground for elk/deer? Considering putting together a hunt there for 2009.
Sorry, can't help you, but I just had to respond as your question brought back memories of when I hunted there in 1966 and 67'. Beautiful area !!!
any more help out there???
Mike,
Just talked with a few friends out there.and they were saying that around 25Mesa and windy point are both excellant areas.
I hunted it this year - beautiful terrain and great elk habitat, BUT it gets hit VERY heavily by other hunters. If you go, go early as I went late this year. You can tell there were plenty of elk there at one time, but they high-tailed it outta there when the pressure was on. I moved to another chunk of ground after hunting it for 3 days.
The west side of the Uncompaghre Plateau is unit 61 which is a draw. It takes quite a few preference points to draw in there. Since it is a very limited entry unit the hunting there is very good. The east side is Unit 62 which is an over-the-counter area for elk. All deer hunting is by draw. Unit 62 gets a lot of pressure. Also there are a lot of other activities going on in both units, camping, hiking, bike riding, bear hunters, grouse hunters, motorcycle and 4-wheeler riders, etc. The two units are separated by Divide Road.
Jimscol pretty well sums it up. There are a lot of 4 wheel trails in 62 but there is a wilderness area called Robideau.