Okay, All of you that are going elk hunting this year lets here these details:
- What state you will be hunting in?
- When you will be going?
- Guided or non guided?
- What bow, include poundage?
- What arrows include broadheads?
Good Luck to all and be safe. A big part of Elk hunting is usually pushing yourself past your physical limits and alot of tiring days. But for the oppurtunity to be amongst elk and the country they live in, is truly worth it. Again good luck to all and hopefully your arrow reaches its spot.
Oregon
Middle of September
Non Guided
64" DAS Elite w/ Winex limbs 51#@30"
Victory V-Force HV 300s + Muzzy Phantom SS 4blades=475gr.
Can't wait! Good luck to all you guys!
Craig
TODAY was opening day ...
COLORADO, Public land
Yes I went, Only saw a few Mulie doe's
I usually , by the end of season have quite a few encounters, even with some well over 300"
I shoot a 59# pronghorn longbow, and a 55# Pronghorn ferrett (recurve) 125 gr G5-B52 boadheads
I lost 4 pounds this morning and usually 20 pounds by the end of the season. You do literal HOURS of cardio workouts in a day so You need to eat and drink to keep the weight on and have the sustained energy for the haul..
good luck
Washington state,elk in our unit opens on the 8th.I will be there for the full month of sept.as we have deer season also from sept.1st until sept.30th No guide.My bow is my all time favorite hunting bow,1964 Bear Kodiak 60" 55 pounds.Arrows 60/65 cedars,Bear Razorheads bleeder blades installed.Good luck to all of ya'all and be safe.PEACE,bd
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Leaving Friday for Colorado, then to Wyoming on September 15. Taking these horses.
I am the guide.
58" Super Shrew, 65 pounds @29"
600 gr carbons with 260 gr STOS/weighted insert
Heading to Colorado on the 17th.
Black Widow PSR 61 lbs.
Carbon Express 250's
Razorcaps
Can't wait to get back in Elk Country.
Colorado on Sept 5th
Public land unguided but with a local
58# Fox Longbow with GT traditionals 55/75
160 or 190 2 blades not sure yet still fine tuning
Opener here in Oregon was YESTERDAY!!! Had to work. Now I am going on a family vacation up in the mountains for 5 days. I have informed my wife the bow is coming and I may disappear from time to time. My serious hunting will Sept.10 thru 17th. Prime time!
Hunting with 53#@28" Rivers Edge Vortex and a 55#@28" Blacktail Elite VL recurve. 620gr. GT Traditional 5575s for the recurve w/160gr. Simmons, the longbow likes 580gr.POC arrows w/160gr Simmons.
Good to hear from you guys who are elk hunting this year. It is not the same as actually being there but it helps to get a little fix from you as you progress through the season. Make sure to take plenty of pictures and keep us up to date with posts whenever you get a chance.
going to New Mexico mid sept. Using HH big 5 with 2020 alum arrows weighing 675g. Bow is 56lb at 26. Private ground. 190gn grizzleys.
Idaho (but don't come here, there isn't any elk, we only have lizards....)
September 13th-27th.
Non guided, fully DIY front and backcountry
My own homemade bow, similar to a savannah, but 58" total length, 57# @ 25", Zebra riser, cocobolo limbs.
POC woodies, spined 60-65#, spray crested orange, 4 X 5" orange feathers, 145 grain snuffers.
Man, can I wait that long? Opener is this week, it is still hot. I have two other Trad Gangers coming up from California and Virginia, "PaleFace" and "Ausable" We are going to have a blast I hope.
Mike
Colorado
Sept 13-23 (including travel days)
non-guided
Black Widow PMA 56 #
Gold Tip Carbons
Wensels with adapters toatal about 200 grains
Private and public land
Either a cheap elk hunt or an expensive camping trip.
First time-can't wait!
Chama NM,, Oct 27-31 ,, both guided and unguided on private leased land includes a Muley as well...65lb Morrison TD with Beman MFX classics 340 at 600 grn ,,gonna try the g5 from montec...My first time as well...
colorado
october 20-24
non-guided
64" 61lb northern mist longbow takedown
730gr ramin arrow w 190 grizzlybh
public land
now through the end of september here sw colorado
New Mexico OHO Felez ranch leaving next week.Shooting a 66lbs Habu Vyperkahn w/ Axis full metal jacket arros w/ a 200gr Ace broadheads.
Colorado
Sept. 14-23
non guided
64" ACS CX 55# @ 29"
Beman MFX Classic 340 with Magnus Stinger 2-bld
Total Arrow weight is 590.
Going back to same wilderness area for the third time and like Gregg said, I hope this isn't another expensive camping trip. I passed up cows last year the first two days, won't do that again. Good luck to everyone and I hope you all have a great hunt.
-Rio Grande Nat'l Forrest
-Unguided
-Backpack ****buster hike to some of the most awesome elk habitat on the planet.
-64# Chek Mate Hunter 2, CE 250s, 200 gr phantom. 612 gr of elk medicine.
5 days and counting. I will need Benadryl to sleep the next 4 nights. My wife lost me to the 1000 yard stare 2 weeks ago. GOOD LUCK TO ALL!
SW Colorado from now til end of season, unguided
55# RER Vortex
Cedar Arrows W/ 160 gr STOS
Good Luck to everyone
Rangely, CO
Sept. 10th - 16th
Semi-guided w/Peters Hunting Service
Black Widow PSA 50#
CX 150's tipped with Zwickey Delta's
Either sex Elk tag and bear tag (just in case) in my pocket
Good luck to all!
Durango, CO
Sept. 5-15 including travel days
guided
64# Black Widow PSAX Osage
2317 Classic arrows, real turkey feathers I killed, cut and fletched, 190 (actually 195) Grizzlies, added chinelle sticks, total weight is 770 grains.
First Time!!
northern New Mexico
Sept 8-16 including travel
semi-guided by extended family member
57# David Dowell 62" longbow
31" tapered cedar 160gr STOS 650gr
I am 58 years old and feel like a 10 year old waiting for Christmas. It is going to be a long 2 weeks
Leaving for New Mexico Sept. 12. Season is 16th - 22nd, and we will be hunting semi-guided (He will supply the base camp and show us around)
Robertson Vison Falcon, 57#@29", pushing 610 grains behind a Wensel Woodsman head.
"Elk? Whut's that? I heerd of 'em many times, but ain't never seed one. Is it like Bigfart? One of them mystical kreetures? I heerd they makes weerd sounds in that nite. Ohhh, spooky!
Richie Nell were you hunting down here shoot me a pm
Good job all. looks like alot of prepared hunters.
I will go with my set up.
Sad but true.
My Dreamcatcher is out of commission so this year it is gonna be a mathews lx, 70 pds
410 grain axis 340
non guided hunt in the Big snowy mountains by Lewistown Montana.
I will be waterhole sitting next weekend.
I was out this weekend if i had a deer tag could have shot a nice buck at about 5 yards. No elk seen.
Morrison shawnee
61@28
Beman classics 400
woodsman head
self made turkey fletch
600 gr. arras
I'm headed to Idaho mid September with Elk Ninja. Will be shooting a Morrison Shawnee 57@28 with carbons and magnus II - total arrow weight ~600 grs.
Oregon
Sept.5th-23rd
no guide
58# 62" Widow SAV
620 grn. Surewood Shafts [Doug Fir}
Zwickeys
Salmon,Idaho
Sept 15 through 30
Non-Guided, although Brian Krebs has offered to hold my hand and wipe the tears from my face on Sept 30
A & H Archery ACS-CX Long bow 66# @ 28
Easton Axis 340, 830 grains w/ Modified Grizzly Grande broadhead
The question should be: What kind of physical conditioning are we old fat part-time bowhunters in? The elk are full time elk accustomed to running uphill at 10,000+ feet. I usually hack up a lung on the second or third day of the hunt.
:eek:
Slow opening weekende in SW CO. No bugling except hunters who know not what they're doing (shutting up the real bulls). Got close to one small bull. Backpack hunt ruined by illegal ATV "hunters."
I went out this weekend here in SW Colorodo with my son. He is 16 years old and it is his first archery season. He has killed four elk with a rifle. This past Christmas, I got him a new Bighorn Ramhunter Longbow and made hime a couple of dozen wood arrows. He has been shooting all summer in preparation. We went and camped the first two days of the season. We saw one nice 6x6 which winded us and spooked and a second bull that must have seen us first and just barked at us for the evening. We saw several nice rub trees and lots of cows, calves, and fresh sign. We also took a few pictures I'll try to post them soon. We saw two dandy muley bucks, but we didn't have a deer license. Actually he is the only one with an elk license. I want to make sure he gets all the oppotunities this fall. If he happens to get his bull before the season ends, I'll buy an OTC license and try it myself. It is really a blast hunting with him. We have hunted during rifle season and also been hunting birds and turkeys since he was about 10. It sure is fun to be out with him carrying his longbow and watching him shoot it. Hopefully we will have some bull elk trophy photos to share before long.
Mike
Sept 15-23 in NE Oregon's Blue Mts. My Brother is up there now for the whole season. He just moved to Colorado, so next year we may be hitting both states.
Good Luck All!!
wyoming "the snowys"
septemper 1 through the end of the month, every earned day off, every fanigled day off, any solid half day off.....
non-guided
55# PLX osage 60"
goldtip traditionals, G5s
Dave: are ATV's just a fact of life even in Colorado wilderness areas during hunting season?
bowbender1 had any luck in the snowies? I lived in Laramie for a year and spent a bunch of time trying to find them but only found other hunters.
- What state you will be hunting in? Colorado (home)
- When you will be going? Every weekend in September, starting with Labor Day weekend. Some three-day weekends. Couldn't hunt the opener last weekend because of a death in the family.
- Guided or non guided? Non. Backpack only.
- What bow, include poundage? Bob Lee Classic, 60", 51@27".
- What arrows include broadheads? Beman Classic 500s, tipped with two-blade Magnus BHs.
Oregon
Last two weekends of August > September.
Non-Guided
Self Bow
Cane arrows w. stone points & wood w. WW.
Bryan
wyoming
non-guided
cow tag, last 3 years 95% seccess rate for the area
last week of sept, and maybe a few other days
RICH WORMINGTON LONGBOW 64" and 59#
55/75 gt with tubes and brass inserts wensels at 200gr up front, 625 total
EVEN BETTER THOUGH MOOSE HUNT IN ALBERTA ON SEPT.6TH-15TH
YOU GUYS BE READY FOR PICS. AND A BIG BS STORY!
Wyoming "Big Horns"
Shooting a Kota Kill-Um, cedar arrows, 125gr BH
Non guided
leaving friday morning. opener Sept 1st
Pic was from a couple weeks ago, not the greatest I actually took it with the camera looking through the bino's. couldnt fit them all in there, was over 100 head and where still there this last sunday night.
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Hunting here in Washington
Using 93# osage selfbow.
wood arrows
Grizzly heads
Wife will be camping with me while I hunt
Public land
QuoteOriginally posted by Whip:
Leaving for New Mexico Sept. 12. Season is 16th - 22nd, and we will be hunting semi-guided (He will supply the base camp and show us around)
Going with Joe. Drop camp, with a few nights in a spike camp.
Zipper Extreme, 58@27
CX Rebel Hunters with 150 grain Stingers, 600 grains total.
We leave on the 15th and will be back after the season closes.
- What state you will be hunting in? Idaho
- When you will be going? 15th - end
- Guided or non guided? Non- guided
- What bow, include poundage? Dryad BushWacker 50ish
- What arrows include broadheads 2016 with WW
Mike
duck mountain Manitoba leave tomorrow non-guided 48 lb Das Daala[nursing a pinched nerve in neck] 600 grain heritage 250 w 160 g single edge stos. hope he comes in nice and close.[biggest elks on the continent] lucky me MO.
State? CO
Going? Packing in on the 16th Packing out the day after the season ends
Guided? Non guided
Bow? Ursus Major 3pc T/D longbow 61#
Arrow? Beman 360-16 2 blade magnus
Good luck to all
New Mexico, Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Season starts the 11th but I won't be able to hunt untill the 14th. Work is a curse.
Non-guided. Backpack hunt with horse packer on-call.
49@28 Far West r/d Longbow
Carbon Tech Whitetail w/100gr. insert, 75gr. steel adapter and 125gr Eclipse broadhead; 585gr total wt.
I fly into Colorado on the 12th, shipped my gear last week( dont trust airlines with it). Combo private/public land, some guided, some not. SOme staying in a cabin on the ranch, some bivy/backpack hunting. Bow gear is a Thunderstick MOAB longbow, 60" 57#@28". Hexpine 600 gr arrows with Bear Razorheads. Total of 11 days of hunting.
Been to this area twice before, close but no cigar as of yet.
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Leave here on Friday the 14th return Sunday the 24th. Going to North Central Colorado, public land, non-guided hunt. First elk hunt. Backpacking in about 3-8 miles from trailhead and living in basecamp for 7 days. Taking my Bob Lee recurve 53# @ 29" and shooting 30.5" 2117 Easton XX78's tipped with Magnus 125gr two blade and G5 B52's 125gr. About 550Gr total arrow weight. Buying a cow tag and plan on learning a bunch. Really, really excited about this trip. Good luck to all of you. Can't wait to share stories when I get back.
Brent
good luck to all of you!