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Title: Elk Stand
Post by: Little John on February 17, 2009, 10:24:08 pm

Just found this picture hiding out on the camera memory and thought I would share it. This is my favorite hideing and waiting spot for elk. It is a groung blind made behind a big fallen tree and is very comfortable to spend the day in. There is also an overhang simi cave to hiode out in during rain delays about eighty yards away. This is the most used elk crossing and wallow area I have ever seen, about 8-10 well used trails intersect the stream crossing about 20-25 yards from the stand. Lots of close encounters and one missed shot here. Mostly swirling winds tips the hand in the elks favor.   Kenneth

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Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: PeteC on February 17, 2009, 10:46:49 pm

Neat lookin' place to take a stand,beautiful country.I know what you mean about swirlin' wind.My son-in-law and I made 2 stalks on hogs,within 35yards,saturday morning,only to be betrayed by swirlin' wind. God Bless

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Pat B on February 18, 2009, 12:04:56 am

Cool spot, Kenneth. Is that near where we were?

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: hawkbow on February 18, 2009, 12:11:34 am

Have bow , will travel ;D ;) I think i could even kill an elk in a perfect spot like that :o I forsee elk blood on your arrows this year.. Hawk a/ho

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Little John on February 18, 2009, 08:33:32 am

Pete, Thanks and have fun with those hogs. Wish we had them and could hunt thru out the year.

Pat, yes it is right in the middle of our old hunting grounds. I think you even went that direction once but don't know if I can describe its location to you. I have been real close to it several times but just  really found it at the end of the 07 season. Wish I could find a couple more just like it.

Hawk, thanks for your confidence but you are right, I think it will eventually work out. Hope so any way would like to have the meat again one of these days.

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: GregB on February 19, 2009, 08:09:06 am

Good looking ambush spot Kenneth...good luck there this year.

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Pat B on February 19, 2009, 02:11:04 pm

Sunny side of the Salt Creek or dark side?

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Little John on February 20, 2009, 12:39:41 am

Pat, yea it is on the sunny side. I think in the area where you ran down the mountain to get closer to the bugling bull. Remember wher you hiked up the hill to find the big wallow well go about another 1/4 mile up the main trail to where two ridges and two small creeks come down real close together. I think I told you that Kathie and I biviwacked there one night under a leantoo. Any way up the ridge for a good little ways then angle down on a game trail to the bottom between the two ridges. About two or three flight arrow shots west of the big wallow. If you could make it out I would help you out with the tag and the stand would be yours.    Kenneth

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Pat B on February 20, 2009, 01:43:18 am

You know if I could I would!!!!!!!!!  I just re-read the Story of Elkie last night. My body and history are in the East but my dreams are out WEST! ;)

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: rivercane on March 25, 2009, 05:49:22 pm

Tell me again how to get there??!! O:)

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Pat B on March 26, 2009, 12:28:08 am

Head up Salt Creek from camp, past the 4th drainage, up the finger ridge to the big bowl at the top then follow the ravine down about 100 yards to this...

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/Coloradoelkhunt072.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/Coloradoelkhunt073.jpg)

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Little John on March 26, 2009, 08:30:24 am

Hey Pat you are good, who would have thought an old fart like you could remember like that. Heck I have to feel my way in like a blind man.   Kenneth

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Pat B on March 26, 2009, 10:37:55 am

Kenneth, It is permanently burned into my brain! ;)

As a side note...ya'll will notice the water in the wallow is clear. I'd bet by the next weekend it was quite muddy! ::)

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: hawkbow on March 26, 2009, 06:42:02 pm

Dang, you guys... now I am thinking of elk  :o I can almost smell the pungent scant of elk urine, the musty scent of the forest floor and hear the deep growling bugle of an old warrior coming into that wallow.. Oh that is right I am always thinking of elk hunting O:) Hawk 

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Little John on March 26, 2009, 09:47:59 pm

Thoughts of elk hunting are never far from my mind. Of course I have probably always had attention deficit, they just did not call it that way back then.  Ken

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: hawkbow on March 26, 2009, 10:04:02 pm

What..ELK...ELK...What did you say... ELK...Elk...Elk wallows.... elk bugles... elk... guess i lost my concentration for a moment.. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Pat B on March 26, 2009, 11:41:02 pm

Now, I've got the fever again. Been looking at pics of the hunt Kenneth invited me on....

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/Coloradoelkhunt064.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/Coloradoelkhunt069.jpg)

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/Coloradoelkhunt078.jpg)

and the horse he rode out on! ;D

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/CopyofColoradoelkhunt036.jpg)

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: hawkbow on March 26, 2009, 11:59:19 pm

Thanks a lot Pat ;) now I won't be able to sleep without dreaming of elk camp...looks like a good time to me brother.. nothing at all like stalking elk in the wilderness.. nothing compares to calling rutting warriors.. Hawk

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Pat B on March 27, 2009, 12:26:52 am

I can't wait to try that Mike. Unfortunately the elk weren't cooperating when I was there.  ...but, one day I was coming down from the wallow and heard a bull or the opposite ridge bugling and coming down to Salt creek. I took off running down hill hitting a lick on my cow call with every bugle. I beat him to the bottom, set up a stand overlooking the creek and waited for him to bust out of the bushes. He was bugling every 10 seconds or so. But, before he hit the opening,........he turned down stream, bugling all the way but never came into the clear. ???  That was the most exciting 5 minutes of my life!!! My hunt was a success!
This is the angle of the hill I ran down. That is the Salt Creek Trail you see in the pic.



Pleasant dreams! >:D

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Pat B on March 27, 2009, 12:28:35 am

 Salt Creek trail with Salt Creek below.  Sunny side on the left, dark side on the right...and camp just down stream.

(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/Coloradoelkhunt058.jpg)

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Keenan on March 28, 2009, 12:07:24 pm

There goes my mind ::) ::) :-\  Won't be able to think for another 5 months now ::)

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Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Little John on March 28, 2009, 12:18:23 pm

You guys are making it hard for me to concentrate.    Kenneth

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: hawkbow on March 28, 2009, 07:47:45 pm

STOP IT PLEASE! I can't go on any longer.. all these wallows, dark timber , and stories of big bulls.... I think my neck is swelling and my velvet is about to come off.. somebody please make it stop!!Hawk

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: david w. on March 28, 2009, 07:56:04 pm

Beautiful.

I would love to hunt elk someday.

Title: Re: Elk Stand
Post by: Pat B on March 29, 2009, 01:40:09 pm

David, Just keep thinking that way and some day a friend will take you to the elk woods. It only took me 35 years before I made it(at 56 years old)...and it was worth every minute I waited!.  ;D 8)
  Keenan, that first wallow looked more like a lake than a wallow! ::) I thought the one I posted was big!
  it is funny how come late August I get the urge to pee on every tree and bare ground I see. ;D