The Elk I Could Have Shot
But I didn’t… my friend, Dave Allen, did it instead.
Due to the serious lack of work over the first six months of this year, I decided in June to cancel my CO elk hunt with my friend Rick at Dark Timber Outfitters this year. It was a hard choice, in large part because this is one of those things I have been looking forward to for well over a year.
The plan was for myself and my brother to go, and we were going to have a couple of friends, including Dave, along with us. By June, only Dave was left in the hunt… and he was damned if he’d cancel! I guess now he’s glad he went! 
According to Dave, the first couple of days were pretty much blown out, with strong winds screaming through the mountains. On the third day, the weather gave them a break, and he and his guide headed down a creek bottom.
He spotted this bruiser running the ridgeline with a couple of cows, and in fairly short order his 30-06 put the bull down.
Here’s his bull, a really nice 280 class animal, and his first bull elk. Congrats, Dave! And yeah, I’m jealous!
That is one good looking Elk. I still have a dream to arrow of them bugling boys one of these days.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:05 am
That is a nice looking bull, I run an outfitting place out in Craig, Colorado. Nice dark chocolate horns and good brow tines. You obviously love to hunt, so have you seen HuntFishGuide.com
It is this new website that works like Orbitz and allows you to search for hunting and fishing anywhere in the world. I mean Elk, Mule Deer, Whitetail…pretty much what ever you want. Anyways, I thought that I would share and let you check it out. I just listed my outfitting place on the site and I think that it is pretty amazing!
February 15th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Thanks, Paul. I am familiar with the site, and it’s pretty cool. Personally, I don’t really do a lot of guided hunts (can’t afford to do it as much as I’d like), and most of what I do comes from friends’ recommendations. However, for someone trying to find a hunt, HuntFish is a pretty good site.
As always, I’d recommend anyone using that site or any other source to book a hunt make sure you talk to the outfitter AND to references (both successful and unsuccessful hunters). A good price and a good location are important, but don’t overlook customer feedback.
February 15th, 2010 at 6:04 pm