iron buck Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Just got back to PA today. Had a GREAT time & hunt in South Western Colorado with Colorado Bob & some of his friends. I wil post a detailed story later...but for now here are some pictures. The adventure begins. Left to right, Colorado Bob, Chad, Iron Buck (bill) & Larry After a 2+ hour ride on a jeep trail (nice term for what we rode in on!) We were setting up camp. Notice Bob sticking his head out from inside That is Larry at the entrance. Chad is in the backgound Tent is fully up. A three mile hike from camp.........up at 12,000 feet. Bob shows me the magic spot his elk honey hole My turn to hunt Bobs spot, Sunday night. This was my view settling in. 6pm that night........a 5x4 bull comes in. I was shooting from the treeline ridge at 12 Oclock from my bulls antlers.There is a small orange spot there where I hung a vest. I used Bob's extra Tika 30-06 on this hunt. I was surprised at the elks non reaction to 4 hits from a 180 grain 30-06 nosler partiotions. The bull only went 45-50 yards....but he had no reation to tehe hits. Through the lungs...twice, through the shoulder, finallly a neck, spine hit dropped him for good. Just some more pics of the bull. The way we hunted we were never closer than a mile from each other. So I was not able to get pictures of me with the bull before I caped, boned & packed the meat. The happy ...almost elk hunter. This is me with a pack that we later weighed in at 98 pounds! I hiked it 3 miles back from where I got the bull. This was Tuesday at lunch time. My last load. But a storm was HAMMERING us. Bob was nervous. It was time to break camp & get out of the high country as fast as we could. If we could. Camp was down & packed in a 2 hour wind sprint. Bob said...forget the pics...lets get outa here! I said...Where is the road? Not joking. We were on a road for 7 miles that NO ONE had driven on in 2 days. we had 4 feet snow drifts, Ice & 16" of snow to fight until we got to lower elevations & saw our first truck. But we still had a hairy ride out from there. As we went lower, we still had snow, but the roads were not as bad as the "rubicon trail" section for the first 7 miles. We were the ONLY hunters that high. As we got below the storm, I took a few pictures looking up. Notice that it was only raining down below! amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron buck Posted October 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure On a serious note..elk hunting is NOT for the faint at heart or out of shape. We sterted the hunt with fours guys, but Chad, a local, got altitude sickness so bad that he had to be taken down by Larry his father in law Saturday night. That was opening day. The rest of the time it was just Bob & I in camp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfletch7441 Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure Sounds and looks like you guy's had an awesome time! I hope to be able to make a hunt like that some day. Congrat's on the bull, and thanks for sharing. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure Man,that's awesome!That is definately my dream hunt.Congrats on the bull....and great pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure Great pics! Congrats on the bull, that is some great looking elk country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckbuster11 Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur Wow, awesome awesome pics and great bull. Not bad for a PA guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure Good bull bud, congratulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phaseolus (BeanMan) Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure Yeehaw, Gotta love elk hunting. Missionary ridge can be a snowy place. BeanMan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckslayer Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure AWESOME hunt! I hope to get there myself someday! Theres a big difference between PA "mountains" - and real mountains! Good story and great pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterbucks1 Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure That is cool. Congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure Awesome story there IB! Long time no see too! Congrats!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure Good bull and an great hunt! Beautiful country! Elk hunting is not a gimmy but any stretch of the imagination! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventure Congrats again IB! I wish I was with you guys. Good to hear you survided the storm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Finn Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur That is awesome..thanks for sharing and congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ousoonerfan22 Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur Congrats on your elk and those are good pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron buck Posted October 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur Here are some tent life pictures. Bob's stove............a $25 garage sale find! It worked GREAT. Bob in the rack............weather was to bad to head out & hunt. This was the morning of teh BIG storm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest outdoorgirl Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur Great story & pictures congrats on your elk !! And were all glad you made it back safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur Been there, done that!! It was great when I was younger, but not anymore!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phaseolus (BeanMan) Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur A wall tent with a stove can be the difference between staying on the hill in a storm and getting your Bull. Or having to go home because you are cold and wet. congrats again. BeanMan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest samueljm Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur absolutelty incredible pictures you got there. Man I cant wait to graduate so i can head to COLORADO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drkillemquick Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur GREAT pics, congrats on the bull. Man do I ever want to get out there elk hunting now!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Colorado Bob Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur It was a good hunt-----We'll do it again next year & again----until I'm to old & gray to get into the mtns. CB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Sauceman Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur Now THAT is COOL!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Posted October 28, 2006 Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur Congrats on the bull! It sounds like you guys had a fun time. Dakota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danbo Posted October 28, 2006 Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 Re: Colorado Bob\'s & Iron Bucks Great Elk Adventur I love the pictures. It captures the tough terrain. Only for the young and fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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