| Colorado Elk Hunt
Returned last night from 5 days in Steamboat Springs. The 15 hour drive sucks. Much rather travel by boat.
Anyways, start the hunt Sat morning. We get set up around 5:30 AM on a hillside we know which offers a good view of the elk when they move upward from the lower grazing fields and river.
At grey light we see the first elk...cannont tell if it is a cow or bull...still too dark. My girlfriend and I only have cow tags. We watch it dissapear from view and continue to wait.
A few minutes later two cows show up from the other side of one of the ridges we're watching...Only 150 yds!
This is Kari's 1st hunt where she will be doing any shooting. I look at the cow's and tell her to wait. They're two year old's and pretty small.
As we begin second guessing ourselves...wondering if we should have taken them, four more cows show up. I tell her to take the first one as it was the biggest. BANG...perfect shoulder and lung shot. I runs about 5 steps and starts coughing blood. A few seconds later it's down. AWESOME...she got her first elk with a .257 Weatherby Mag. 87 grain at 125 yds. One shot, one kill.
We're high fiving and she's all jacked up. We're still on the hill watching the dead animal...and low and behold another heard of 10 animals come over a different ridge. I tell her it's my turn and take sight. As they are running along the hillside I decide which cow to take, get in position and chirp the cow call which instantly freezes the group.
BAM...It hits hard and down she falls. .300 Weatherby Mag does the trick. 180 grain NP at 325 yds.
7:30 AM...hunts over. The other 4 hunters had already downed their animals, including a nice 5x5 Bull.
Now the work begins..field dressing 6 animals and loading into trucks. What a great hunt.
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