Late season cow elk

I got back from Colorado yesterday with a ice chest full of elk meat. It was a really hard hunt, I put in every minute of 35 minutes before I dropped her.

I used a 270 win with a 140 gr Barnes bullet over reloader 19.

congrats thats awsome sound like a great hunt iv always wanted to go out west to elk hunt looks like so much fun! congrats on the elk!

LOL NO PICS IT DIDNT HAPPEN... oh and if it did congrats

Reload3006 wrote:LOL NO PICS IT DIDNT HAPPEN... oh and if it did congrats

ditto

It only took you 35 minutes to get from Cali to Colorado and drop an Elk....hunting from a helicopter? LOL

J/K.... Good things come to those that wait....at least 35 minutes.

Congrats Rich!

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I stop by to see how you guys are doing and of course I'm gonna check the Critter Harvest board first and foremost and this is what I get???
Where's the pics Rich?? Don't just tell me a story, show me what it looks like but Congratulations anyway I can only dream of hunting elk. Maybe someday?

Man that was a killer wait. I need to learn how to do that. I to would like some pic's but a few steaks will work just as well.

Yep I agree, it's gonna cost ya some elk steaks to me and sdsviper so whenever your ready just let me know and I'll give ya my mailing address.

Mohunter wrote:Yep I agree, it's gonna cost ya some elk steaks to me and sdsviper so whenever your ready just let me know and I'll give ya my mailing address.

I'll hand deliver next deer season, plan on me staying about 2 weeks

Sure thing, you and I can sit in the woods and Not see anything together.
You would be better off on public ground than hunting here where I do. I just finished up the worst season I've ever had since I was 13yrs. old.

Ok i believe Congrats. lots of good eating there.

That's more like it! Now was that so hard?
That's a good picture and one you should be proud of, I don't understand why we needed to pry it out of ya.

I always imagined elk to be bigger than that, but I guess it's the bulls that get really big huh? Any idea what she wieghed?

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....a Denver Bronco's tshirt.

I had a teenager come over and help me post the pic. She is small for a elk, she's a yearling. That's some good eating.

Now that I can post pics you will sorry

XbonesX wrote:ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....a Denver Bronco's tshirt.

I know, it's AWESOME!!!!

lol Bones it was the broncos shirt that made him ashamed to post it LMAO

1 game from the playoffs with a 3rd string QB that can't play in the NFL. No shame here!!

XbonesX wrote:ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....a Denver Bronco's tshirt.

He's trying his best to look like a local yocal.

RichBirdHunter wrote:I had a teenager come over and help me post the pic. She is small for a elk, she's a yearling. That's some good eating.

Now that I can post pics you will sorry

Oh, didn't know it was a yearling.............well then it's HUGE for a yearling and I bet that's some gosh darn tender eatin' elk meat you got off it!!

The best part,a freezer half full of meat

What did the cost work out to by the pound? About $22 bucks per pound?
I'm still envious as heck, I've never had elk before and I heard that it's awesome and some even say it's better than beef?

I figure that every deer I kill between now and when I die will be costing me over $10 bucks a pound just based on what I've spent on bows, guns, reloading components, tree stands, camo gear, property leases, ect. and so on and so on.

The good thing is that I pretty much got all the stuff I need and since I can hunt on farm tags it should never cost me any more than the price of a reloaded bullet, or a home made arrow then the price of a broadhead which I can also make myself. So in theory a guy could make it as Least expensive as possible or just throw caution to the wind and go full tilt, I tend to fall somewhere in between the 2 extremes I think.
Ask anybody else about me and they would probably say I'm a fanatic and I should be admitted to a mental institution. I've even thought that myself after some of the personal sacrifices that I put my mind and body through just to kill a deer. I've also wondered why I even bother with it? Then when the season opens I do it all over again without giving it a second thought.

It's not cheap, but I'm not looking for cheap on my yearly hunting trip. The stories and the memories are worth every dollar. Then once my boy is old enough to hunt the cost will almost double and you couldn't pay me not to go.

love the shirts! big denver fan myself i cant believe how the bills man handled them congrats on the elk i want to go out west someday but might not have to they were released here and one was killed about 20 miles from me it was a good sized bull bought 700 pounds