WrongHanded
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My wife and I just got our Hunter Safety Cards, and now it's going to get interesting.
We started pursuing the idea after my wife tried Elk from the super market. Now we want to get our own. Although she is unlikely to get a tag for herself and actually shoot, she's very interested in the idea of getting out and scouting, spotting, stalking, and harvesting. We're still in the planning stages of course, and have a few places to go reconnoiter as potential hunting grounds.
I have some work to do with my rifle. A Tikka T3x stainless lite in .30-06. I need to find a good load for it, but I'm not interested in working up my own just yet (mostly due to the time involved). So I'm out for suggestions for commercially available, hopefully fairly common, and we'll proven load so I can get to practicing. I'd love to handgun hunt with one of my big bore revolvers, but for my first time out, I'm going to have a lot to think about, and owe the animal the cleanest kill possible. So I figure a scoped rifle at moderate to short distance, after a bunch of practice in various field positions, is the way to go.
We've got binoculars, and I have a range finder or two around. Maps, camping gear, lots of outdoor clothes, and good solid boots. We still need to pick up the required surface area of blaze orange, and I heard something about bags for packing out the meat (other than backpacks, which we also have). Basically, we already hike and camp a lot, so we have all that gear.
Then we've got to deal with the whole licensing thing and make sure we thoroughly read the Big Game brochure. But we're both pretty excited about the idea of a new outdoors activity. I'm not particularly hopefully we'll be successful the first time out, but that doesn't matter to either of us too much because hopefully it'll still be a good learning experience.
Any advice you guys have for Elk hunting in Colorado would be appreciated. I have a couple co-workers I can ask, but I know there's a lot of wisdom on THR.
We started pursuing the idea after my wife tried Elk from the super market. Now we want to get our own. Although she is unlikely to get a tag for herself and actually shoot, she's very interested in the idea of getting out and scouting, spotting, stalking, and harvesting. We're still in the planning stages of course, and have a few places to go reconnoiter as potential hunting grounds.
I have some work to do with my rifle. A Tikka T3x stainless lite in .30-06. I need to find a good load for it, but I'm not interested in working up my own just yet (mostly due to the time involved). So I'm out for suggestions for commercially available, hopefully fairly common, and we'll proven load so I can get to practicing. I'd love to handgun hunt with one of my big bore revolvers, but for my first time out, I'm going to have a lot to think about, and owe the animal the cleanest kill possible. So I figure a scoped rifle at moderate to short distance, after a bunch of practice in various field positions, is the way to go.
We've got binoculars, and I have a range finder or two around. Maps, camping gear, lots of outdoor clothes, and good solid boots. We still need to pick up the required surface area of blaze orange, and I heard something about bags for packing out the meat (other than backpacks, which we also have). Basically, we already hike and camp a lot, so we have all that gear.
Then we've got to deal with the whole licensing thing and make sure we thoroughly read the Big Game brochure. But we're both pretty excited about the idea of a new outdoors activity. I'm not particularly hopefully we'll be successful the first time out, but that doesn't matter to either of us too much because hopefully it'll still be a good learning experience.
Any advice you guys have for Elk hunting in Colorado would be appreciated. I have a couple co-workers I can ask, but I know there's a lot of wisdom on THR.