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mudingbuck

mudingbuck

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I am heading out west to do a little elk hunting! We are going to Colorado unit 68, near Saguache (sa watch). It is a great mulely unit, but i can't seam to find much info on elk hunting in this unit. Can anyone give me some info on this unit? We are hunting private land that butts up to public. We leave Sept. 5th and return the 15th.


Thanks
Tom
 
I have family that elk hunts colorado every year. Not sure what unit though. Id love to go hunt Mulies out there. Is it a lottery draw for mule deer or over the counter? Do you kno how much mule deer tags and NR license are? Thanks bud! Hope you lay down a giant
 
Where we are hunting the elk is over the counter for archery, but the mule deer is a draw unit. I'm not sure what the mule deer tags cost. The elk tag was just over $600. Less then a week now!!!
 
Best of luck to you mudingbuck. I really do not know much about unit 68, my hubbie and his buddies left today to hunt units 33, 23, 24 in Co, they have been hunting those units for the past 7 years, kind of wild they really never encounter very many mule deer at all in those unit's during thier Elk hunt's, right now I am just hoping the hubbie returns with another elk , let alone the cost of the tag, LOl we just spent 600.00 plus on a new freezer to hold all that fresh meat
 
Get it done kid! Looking forward to a few stories and something big and dead!

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I have a friend that used to live in Salida, just to the north of you. He might still live there, but if I can find him before you leave (he switched agencies a while back), he might be able to help you. He was the zone biologist for the Forest Service. He would know about the elk in the area and from what I remember talking to him, they should be all over there. No promises, but I'll see if I can track him down before you leave.

I also just did a search because I the area sounded more familiar. The San Luis Valley (Saguache at the north end) has two NWRs that are set up as duck farms. I looked at a job at the Alamosa NWR a few years ago. You can't elk hunt there as far as I know, but there are resident elk and migratory elk in the entire San Luis Valley. I'd be willing to bet money that the local farmers/ranchers get tired of the elk eating their crops. I ran into a similar situation several years ago to the west, near the UT/CO state line. Ranchers were tired of the resident elk eating their crops and were very willing to tell you where to find them. I seriously doubt you will have trouble finding elk, even on private property. Good luck!
 
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Been applying for preference points for Colorado Mule deer for 2 years now. The tag cost is around $350. One more year and our group will have 3 pp a piece then we are going to try drawing early rifle tags and archery as our second so we can still build points to try getting one of those early velvet giants! Good luck buddy who lives out there has been seeing lots of deer and elk!
 
Looks like the success rate for unit 68/681 is pretty poor for the public land tag... dunno about the private. With that in mind, get as far away from the public land and roads as you can. Go high and go rugged. Good luck.
 
Heading out to Montrose Colorado Elk Hunting Sept 11 through 18 going to be pretty Deep up in Public land. Been Rifle Hunting by Craig don't know much about Montrose area though. Any experience on numbers and size in that area?
 
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