Hunter’s Journal

I’ll say this was the most challenging rifle elk hunt we have ever done.  But in the end we found success.  Wheather was non-compliant the elk were skittish, and some days we couldn’t find them.  Our friend Ricardo from Sinaloa, Mexico overcame great barriers to help his dad harvest his first elk in what will likely be his only trip to Colorado.  We brought it down to the wire to the last hours of the hunt but long time school principal Jon hung in there passing on bulls to harvest a great 6×6.  And Brent went home in the middle of a tough hunt opting for elk steaks and his first bull, a tall horned 5×5.  So honestly not the  hunt we have been used to, not sure that it helps me sell hunts but it was tough.  We had plenty of elk but some mistakes and bad conditions left us grinding it out to the last day.  I will add at the end here that this 4 year run puts us on this hunt at 23-24 on kills.  We stuck it out in this one though and hunters went home happy.  Guides relaxed a bit and we lined up more great elk footage for the 2007 DVD.  Now we get to hang up the cow calls and change gears, TIME TO HUNT SOME DEER!!  And can I just add that we have deer!

Later, Wes