Co ELK and DEER

Michael Dickerson

Michael Dickerson

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Well guys,
I'm just about packed, I leave the night of Halloween,

I can't wait.............. the clock is ticking really slow...............Tick..........................tick...........................
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I'll be gone entail the 10th.................... well lets hope I'm home before that..................... because for that to happen that would mean we got 2 bulls, 1 cow and one mule deer buck.


wish me luck
 
best of luck too ya what sort of weapon ya gonna be using on those there critters bow? muzzle loader or boring old modern gun lol?
 
Michael,
You can expect real air, as in real thin air. Take your time on the hiking. Spend as much time glassing as your area will allow. Be very mindful of headaches. Usually this is the first sign of altitude sickness, and that isn't something to take lightly. I would recommend looking it up on the net and be able to recognize it, if not for yourself then for anyone else you may suspect is having trouble. Some estimates say up to one in four out of staters hunting there develope some form of it.

That said, some of my finest memories are from the Flat tops and White river forest.

We all expect pix.
Best of luck
 
Here's my experience...

I've been going out to Colorado from sea level each summer for 12 years. And I'm still a youngster, but this last hunt I went from the altitude of St. Louis to 9,500 feet in the same day. Make sure you drink plenty of water. The following day I hiked about 8 miles. The next three days I covered about 20 miles. The key is to drink water and pace yourself. It does get quite tiring hunting, especially when you are running ahead of the herd to get where you can set up and they will pass quite close to you. That's the hunting I was doing for elk, and it was tiring, but I didn't expereince any altitude sickness. I wouldn't worry about it...

Hope you have a great hunt, and be sure to keep us posted as to whatcha get!
 
Chris,
I live at 7200', have a cabin at 9100', and entertain lots of flatlanders out here during the hunting season. I will give you the same advise that I give them. Take it easy the first couple of days out here and plan on drinking lots of water.The higher you are the more breaths it take to get enough oxygen. Therefore you expell alot of moisture when you exhale. The easiest way to tell if you are not hydrated is if you are not peeing every couple of hours your not taking in enough fluids.
Altitude sickness effects people in different ways and is hard to always pinpoint.Generally speaking,if your feeling a little crummy within the first couple of days you probably are experencing some form of altitude sickness. If you feel crummy after missing a 6X6 bull elk then it's probably just buck fever.
Good luck on your hunting trip.
 
Like the others have said, it takes about 36 hours to learn to work at those altitudes. Spend teh first couple of days making SHORT hikes before you go play G.I. Joe on those Gung Ho marches. And don't forget to drink plenty of whiskey......er I mean water!

Your '06 with 180 grn. bullets sighted in at a "nats ass" at 200 years will work great from 100 to 300 yards and on out to 400 yards with a good rest and a little "Kentucky Windage"

Take lots of pic's to share with us and most of all....enjoy your hunt whether you shoot anything or not.

Dave
 
Cut hair, not air...the buddies I have in Montana told me that most guys shoot over the backs of animals cause they think they are further away than they really are. I experienced it...coming from Michigan where a long shot is 200 yards...in the open spaces out west you loose your grasp of perspective and things look further away...with a 30-06 if you have to hold OVER an animal to hit it...it's toooo damn far to shoot at. Usually the first 3 days kill me at 7-8000 feet...then by the time we are packing for home I can cover a lot of ground...
 
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