Elk Scounting 2009

Hi all sorry I haven't been around lately, been real busy. The Colorado 2009 Elk season is now under way Wahoo!!!!!!! I got to go elk hunting last weekend, the first weekend, well it was more of a scouting trip where I could carry my bow just in case. It was a pretty successful weekend. My wife Kathy and I went to the ole hunting spot Thursday evening and set up camp. On Friday morning I went scouting for those elusive elk, to my surprise I heard two bulls bugling back and forth. I also saw from my pickup, 7 cows and a bull grazing above the treeline. I decided to pull up the road a little further and check out another spot and to my surprise just down the road I saw a nice 5x5 bull watching me drive by, (just my luck the Day before the season opens). My cousin Ray joined us later Friday afternoon and we went back out scouting that evening. We saw the same cows and bull in the same spot above the treeline, so we could hardly wait until Saturday morning. Finally Saturday morning rolled around and Ray and I were getting ready to go up the valley we heard a bull bugling above the road. We proceeded to go about a mile up the valley to our favorite spot to scout from. We got there just about sun up and watched the valley for about 30 minutes. we then decided to cross the valley so we could see above the treeline on the side that we were on. We just stepped out from behind some trees to cross I spotted a cow and a calf in the meadow on the other side. So we snuck around some trees and made our way to the other side. I peeked out from behide a tree to see if the cow and calf was still there, about that time Ray saw that there was a real nice 5x5 bull there to. After watching them for awhile I decided we would circle around and try to get above them in a saddle. We finally got set up and waited. By now it was about 9:00 am when I saw some movement in the trees just a 35 yrds away, it was the cow, there was a couple of problems with that, she was down wind and the timber was to thick to get a shot off. After getting directly downwind from me she stopped in her tracks and turned around and walked off. I was hoping the cow would have walked by so Ray could get a chance, but that didn't work either. After that we went back to camp. We went back to the same spot Saturday eve and Sunday morn, but didn't see anything. We had to go back to work on Monday so we headed out Sunday and we will go back up after Labor Day. Sorry No Pics yet. See ya later in the month. Don't forget to check out my Hunting 2 Fishing Store, Just click on the Logo on the left side of this page. If you like what you see in my store I would appreciate it if you would link my store to your blog. To keep the prices low I only addvertise by word of mouth. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!