Your favorite week.

[Broken Arrow]

If you had to pick a can't miss week of bow season which week would it be?

 

[Swede]

For me is is always the first one. I get 70%+ that week. The elk have not been pushed around yet. I sit in my tree stand over an undisturbed water hole. It is hot and dry. Life is good.

 

[Ryan Avery]

Not a week but days September 15-20

 

[Backpack Hunter]

If I had to choose I would go with the first week as well.

 

[Evan Williams]

If i have been in an area enough early scouting I would go with the first just because that first week that will be more likely to be where I have seen them scouting. The area I am hunting this year I have only gotten to set foot in once so I am hoping for Sept. 13-20.

 

[ohhiitznik]

I'll be out the first 2 weeks. But I have a preference for Sept 10th-20th

 

[In God We Trust]

I always go the first and third week in Colorado.

 

[Broken Arrow]

Igwt you aren't bothered by the muzzy hunters?

 

[ckleeves]

The week before mz season and the last week of season after the muzzleloaders have cleared out. Around the 17-23 would be my favorite week.

 

[bobhunts]

I often wonder this myself? I have shot an elk on opening morning in one spot but the following year all I saw was other hunters. I scouted pre-season and saw bulls while scouting and they were tough to come by the second year. The bulls I saw the second year were very easy to pattern for exactly two days so I think they were pressured out of the drainage we hunt. The bulls where always above timberline in the morning working there way around the bowl and dropping back into timber on the opposite side of us. I guess I would say the first week will produce more of what you see scouting and you will be left with getting away from people and looking for them where others have not gone. I will say that when they really start to rut you can hear them so that might help more as the season progresses. Sometimes you just get pissed off and move like I did last year and all of didn't produce anymore elk than if I had stayed put and just hunted the last two weeks where I hunted the first two. This year I'll be back in the same spot hoping I'll do better. Water will be scarce this year so that might help! Stay close to dark north facing timber near water and who knows what might happen? I hope this year pans out! I usually do two three day weekends and the last two weeks.Bob.

 

[Ross]

I will have to go for the same 10 day period Ohhiitznik noted the 10-20th.....the 12th has always been an excellent day for me.

 

[thebugler]

20th- the end of Sept. for me