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Is there a Plan C after Plan be is no longer a option?
Good Question. You have a choice of sitting at home with your wife, watching Soap Operas, while your mind is with your buddies that moved quick enough to secure their hunt for this year.
As it is Discounted Hunts know this happens every year for a number of reasons. We are the most successful in getting our hunters a plan D but they are very limited. 853 hunts in 28 states are a good reason that many times we have last minute opportunities that you will find no where else.
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For the quickest response, which time is everything call Greg Merriam of Discounted Hunts LLC directly (303-746-1214) https://www.DiscountedHunts.netand if anyone can find you a hunt, he can do it.
Good Question. You have a choice of sitting at home with your wife, watching Soap Operas, while your mind is with your buddies that moved quick enough to secure their hunt for this year.
As it is Discounted Hunts know this happens every year for a number of reasons. We are the most successful in getting our hunters a plan D but they are very limited. 853 hunts in 28 states are a good reason that many times we have last minute opportunities that you will find no where else.
DIY to Guided Private land hunts are usually available at the late times, and the less lase the more hunts to select from of course.
For the quickest response, which time is everything call Greg Merriam of Discounted Hunts LLC directly (303-746-1214) https://www.DiscountedHunts.netand if anyone can find you a hunt, he can do it.
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5 TIPS FOR BEGINNING ELK HUNTERS
In the words of America’s greatest hunter-conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, “When hunting him (wapiti) … he must be followed on foot, and the man who follows him must be sound in limb and wind.” And that’s somewhat of an understatement. In most elk country, the term is “climbing” rather than “hiking.” As a result, when someone asks me about elk hunting in Colorado the first thing I mention is getting in shape, even if they already appear to be generally fit.
I also emphasize that there’s no magic formula for putting an elk in the freezer. Even with more than 250,000 elk within our state’s borders (Colorado is home to somewhere near 40 percent of the entire continental elk population), less than 30 percent of elk hunters harvest an animal in each year. And over the years, I’ve made plenty of mistakes and have been among the 70 percent enough times to internalize some hard-earned elk hunting lessons.
1. Get in Shape .
This can’t be emphasized enough, and jogging (not running) is the answer for me. Each morning during the months leading up to fall, I get up an hour or so early and jog for half an hour, covering three to four miles. That’s about it, and come September-October I’m fit enough to move through the mountains at a steady pace.
Of course, hunters coming from lower elevations will face additional challenges (i.e., adjusting to Colorado’s elevation), even if physically fit, but they’ll adapt more quickly and be less likely to get sidelined by acute mountain sickness (AMS) if they leave the “spare tire” at home. “Up to 42 percent of visitors to Colorado fall prey to AMS,” says Peter Hackett, M.D., a Telluride-based altitude specialist, “and you can feel the effects of AMS at elevations as low as 6,500 feet.”
The symptoms are mostly headache, fatigue, lack of appetite and restless sleep, but they usually subside in a day or two. The tried-and-true remedy is drinking lots of water (above 10,000 feet the rule of thumb is one gallon of water per person/per day). But at the end of the day, nothing can change the fact that chasing elk is “demanding work disguised as hunting,” as Thomas McIntyre wrote in his Sports Afield article “EZ Elk.” If you’re in appropriate shape, the work will most likely be tough but manageable instead of debilitating and demoralizing.
2. Get Good and Well-Tested Boots .
Elk hunting is done on your feet, and a well-worn/tested pair of boots is the most important (in my opinion) item on your gear list. Nothing is more distracting and painful than hot spots that turn into blisters that transform into raw, oozing wounds. Bottom line: If you can’t hike hard for several hours every day, you likely won’t see/shoot an elk (unless you’re incredibly lucky). Make sure your most critical piece of equipment is up to the task.
3. Get Your “Boots on the Ground” and Scout
An elk wallow.
One of the turning points for my elk-hunting sojourns was finding an area that seemed to hold elk throughout the fall, and then committing to learning the terrain/habitat idiosyncrasies of that area. During my first several years of elk hunting, I changed hunting locations often and never really learned the habitat and habits of local elk.
You’re looking for water holes and wallows, open, south-facing slopes/ridges (where elk often feed in the evening/nighttime/morning) and dark-timbered, north-facing slopes/ridges (where they generally sleep during the day). Benches of mixed aspen and conifer, well-watered and interspersed with secluded grassy parks, will also attract elk.
There may be terrain features that will funnel elk as they move through the mountains: benches, saddles, meadows and drainages. You can learn an awful lot from maps and other resources, but if you don’t get your “boots on the ground” and scout the area far and wide you’ll never know for sure what’s there. As famed big-game hunter, Jim Zumbo, said in his book “Hunt Elk,” “You can’t kill an elk unless you’re out where the elk live.”
4. Get away from roads .
Hunters in the San Juan Mountains
As Zumbo alludes to, no one can expect to kill an elk if all he wants to do is step out of a warm truck and walk 300 yards from the road. Yes, it happens occasionally, but the vast majority of these hunters won’t put meat in the freezer. Dozens of studies over the past 30 years have reached the same conclusion: the more roads, the fewer mature and large-sized game animals will be found.
For Colorado’s elk hunters, the importance of roadless land is obvious: of the 15 most-hunted game management units (GMUs) in the state, 14 contain at least 66,000 acres of roadless acres, and 12 have more than 100,000 backcountry acres. And, as explained by renowned southwest Colorado elk hunter, David Petersen, “Road camping is easier and more comfortable, while backpacking will get you into bigger, wilder, quieter backcountry. I say, backpack if you can and while you can. There’ll be plenty of time for comfort in our graves.”
5. Get ready to skin/quarter/haul meat
A downed bull elk.
Before planning an elk hunt on your own, do yourself a big favor and think seriously about the consequences of a successful hunt and know what to do with your elk once it’s down. Elk are huge animals, and it takes careful planning long before you pull the trigger or release an arrow. In the words of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers co-chairman, Ben Long, “Gutting an elk is a bent-over, head down, muscle-straining job that demands attention.”
Actually, I prefer quartering without gutting, which makes sense if you generally hunt alone and are more than likely carrying the meat/quarters out solo. For the task, my post-shot gear list includes two knives, sharpening steel, cotton meat bags, a small saw (to make quick work of leg and other bones), several pairs of medical gloves and an external frame pack.
Traditional Bowhunter contributor Karl Van Calcar summed up what happens after an elk is down in his article “A Hard Day’s Elk” by saying, “As I stood over him, I really started to wonder what I had done. He was enormous and there I was by myself on a steep hillside with darkness falling. At that point, I was reminded of a hunting buddy approaching an elk he had shot. He sniffed the air and said, ‘It smells like work!’”
The boots are more rigid foot bed to the flexible type boots. The more rigid or stiff boot will provide extra support on mild to moderate difficult terrain and especially when encountering the more severe are rocky terrain. Proper fit with the rigid boots as well as proper sock selection should prevent all problems with blisters.
You can’t over emphasize being in shape and wearing comfortable, ankle supporting, water proof boots. Without these two things, you won’t need to worry about the other three.
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For better or worse, anyone can write a blog post about anything they want. Everyone has a voice and the best voices will rise to the top.
The writer can show their personality:
In blog posts, the writer has more leeway to add in their voice and personality than other types of writing.
Blogs are a great form of mass communication:
You can help people, learn new things, entertain your audience-the possibilities are endless and amazing. Blogging opens up all of these to a very wide audience.
You can make money:
Get the right blog going and you can make a lot of money through advertising and sponsored posts.
It allows people to craft better thoughts:
Instead of reading haphazard, uneducated Facebook statuses, it's much better to see people's thought process in a well-written blog post.
You can establish a community:
Blogging allows you to connect with other individuals who share the same interests. Sharing ideas and opinions within your community helps establish yourself as a thought leader.
Good for SEO:
Keeping content on your site fresh and relevant, you can use your blog to boost the search engine ranking (SEO) of your site and your business.
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If your blog is strong enough and updated regularly, people will come back looking for more and bring traffic back to your site as well.
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It costs you a grand total of zero dollars to post to the blog, so if you have something to say, there's nothing to stop you.
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A blog is a great place for your original thoughts, and it can be a wonderful way to show off your individuality. If people like your ideas, you can become a thought leader in your industry!
What else do you love about blogs? Let me know!
