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Premium, the last three years it took no points to draw unit 50. Here is a handy link that is fairly accurate in calculating odds. http://monstermuleys.hunterstrailhead.com/huntsearch.php?ST=CO

The rut usually doesn't get going full tilt until the last ten days of archery season. I'll call it about the 17th of Sept until Sept 26. Keep in mind that in units that receive a lot of hunting pressure bulls will be bugle shy. I did hear a 'vocalization' on the Grand Mesa yesterday while fishing, they are thinking about it for sure. I prefere the first week of archery hunting myself in Colorado, before they have been busted out of their patterns. A tree stand over a water hole or wallow can be very effective.

Looks like it might hurt your ears pretty quick! The muzzle is very close to your face.

I use Imidacloprid on just about everything around the house these days. A gallon cost an arm and a leg but it will last you many years. Imidacloprid is the chemical name, the stuff I bought is trade named 'provado'

I'm going to have to agree with CB. OTC licenses are unlimited in number. If you feel that buying one before the Leftover licenses go on sale messes with your hunt then don't buy one until after the LO's are on sale. Or, next year when you apply, check the box that allows you to participate in the draw of LO licenses that are available only to hunters who were unsuccessful in the first draw. That way you'll get your crack at LO licenses before the rest of the public and you won't have to stand in line to buy one.

Very nice. Always a great way to spend a day.

It's always a tough hike/climb, especially when you do it in and out in one day. But it's well worth the pain I feel my legs right now. 2800' in three miles plus two more miles of up and down. We hiked in at first light and came out under headlamps. I got home at midnight. In spite of it being one of the best times to fish we had 5 miles of National Park river all to ourselves. so you have to add five miles upstream and downstream to the total hiked. I'm pretty hammered today. To reach the best fishing you have to strip and wade. Just one of the 100 plus Brownies the three of us caught, all on Stonefly patterns. The best portions of the river are all deep wading and I left my camera behind for that section. The fish ranged between 10" to 20". These stonefly bugs, Pteronarcys californicum, are about three inches long and when you catch the hatch they are crawling all over you while you fish. There were a couple of short but magic periods during the day when the frenzy was on and you could do no wrong on any cast that hit the water. It was an epic day of flyfishing with my Brother and Friend Andy. We fish the Black Canyon usually three times a year. Tis a pleasure to live in western Colorado

Were you a fan of President Reagon? He was very anti-union. Especially if you were an Air Traffic Controller.

My Brother and I are heading down into the Black Canyon of the Gunnison early tomorrow morning. We hope to catch the Stonefly hatch at it's peak. When you catch it just right it can be awesome. Hopefully I'll have some pictures to share after tomorrow. It's a bit of a grunt to get in and out but well worth it.

Isn't a Union a form of Socialism?

Hey MGardner, I hear you are a former Fruitian? Palisade here.

Spot, Those tags are good for use in 12 different units, the Flat Tops is a pretty huge area. I live close to the area but have not hunted the Flat Tops. Are your tags either sex or cow tags? How far are you going to be able to hunt from the road and if successful carry your elk back out? That would help narrow it down a bit as far as advice goes.

The 30-30 is fine for those dinky dog deer. When you get into elk it is pretty marginal although I know people who use it for elk. They do understand it's limitations though.

I don't like Obama either but just for the record Obama isn't the only Prez to have missed Arlington on Memorial Day. From the Crhistian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0527/Obama-s-busy-Memorial-Day-weekend-Arlington-cemetery-loses-out "In fact, it’s happened before, and with Republican presidents, no less. In 1983, President Reagan attended a Williamsburg, Va., summit and sent Deputy Secretary of Defense W. Paul Thayer to lay the ceremonial wreath at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush spent Memorial Day weekend at the Bush family's famed Kennebunkport, Maine, vacation spot, where he attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a local American Legion hall (and squeezed in a round of golf). Vice President Dan Quayle went to the Arlington ceremony".

Which rifle do you feel most comfortable shooting? That would be the one to take. Both calibers are equal to the job at hand. I've taken 20+ elk with a 30.06 and have never felt undergunned.