Took advantage of the expanded youth opportunities Colorado has to offer and headed up to try and fill my sons cow tag.
Took us a few days to find them, but then we spotted a huge herd right before dark. The next morning we were headed to the same spot, but I luckily spotted them from the road, about 1.5 miles out and up on the mountain. We knew it would be tough to get to them, so I threw on the pack and we took off. We slugged through calf deep snow for a couple hours and got close, but they spotted us and headed further up and over the mountain. We were starting to feel dejected, but I decided to get up and around the ridge they were just on. As we were following their tracks, I look down and see them below us, bailing off the ridge they were just on. My son got settled on the rifle and made a perfect 200 yard shot, dropping her instantly. His first elk ever. It took us all day to get her broken down and finally packed down to the truck. It was a cold but fantastic day on the mountain!
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Took us a few days to find them, but then we spotted a huge herd right before dark. The next morning we were headed to the same spot, but I luckily spotted them from the road, about 1.5 miles out and up on the mountain. We knew it would be tough to get to them, so I threw on the pack and we took off. We slugged through calf deep snow for a couple hours and got close, but they spotted us and headed further up and over the mountain. We were starting to feel dejected, but I decided to get up and around the ridge they were just on. As we were following their tracks, I look down and see them below us, bailing off the ridge they were just on. My son got settled on the rifle and made a perfect 200 yard shot, dropping her instantly. His first elk ever. It took us all day to get her broken down and finally packed down to the truck. It was a cold but fantastic day on the mountain!
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