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by homebru_trout
Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:44 am
Forum: Rifle Hunting - Big Game
Topic: Favorite Rifle?
Replies: 115
Views: 112394

Re: Favorite Rifle?

Marlin 336 in .35 Remington. Wears a period Weaver K4. Tack driver all day long.
But the really cool thing is that when I tell folks it's a .35 Rem, their faces scrunch up just like yours did when you read this. lol
by homebru_trout
Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:40 am
Forum: Mule Deer - General
Topic: Who got drawn? Where?
Replies: 18
Views: 9005

Re: Who got drawn? Where?

Colorado 481 for both elk and deer. Hunted there the past two seasons and am ready to make it all come together on both tags this year. 14000 ft here I come!
by homebru_trout
Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:39 am
Forum: Rifle Hunting - Big Game
Topic: RIFLES+ME=CONFUSED.
Replies: 23
Views: 14493

Re: RIFLES+ME=CONFUSED.

+1 for the .243 If you take Elk out of your requirements list or it's just a "nice to have", the .243 is your round. .243 is an excellent varmint cartridge and with the right bullet is good deer medicine. You say you currently own a Savage .22. The jump to a 300WM or similar belted cartridge is goin...
by homebru_trout
Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:00 am
Forum: Elk Hunting
Topic: unit 6 area of north park Colorado
Replies: 4
Views: 3444

Re: unit 6 area of north park Colorado

I would call the 9/19/191 set of units marginal at best...huge numbers of hunters. However some friends of ours hunt across the road from 6 and do very well just filling the freezer (not trophy hunters) so they're in there. I would think that if you can get into some of the timber that borders those...
by homebru_trout
Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:26 pm
Forum: Mule Deer - General
Topic: MuleyMadness Roll Call
Replies: 932
Views: 478774

Re: MuleyMadness Roll Call

Greetings all, 36 years old, married with a five year old. Live and work in Fort Collins, CO...originally from Michigan. Relatively new to Mule Deer and Elk in CO but hunted in Michigan on and off over the years. Have hunted the last two years in the high country and am still on the uphill side of a...
by homebru_trout
Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:21 pm
Forum: Elk Hunting
Topic: unit 6 area of north park Colorado
Replies: 4
Views: 3444

Re: unit 6 area of north park Colorado

lulhorse-
Cameron Pass sits at the junction of 6,7,19,171.
6 is NW, 7 is straight North, 19 to the East, and 171 to the south and west.

Check out http://wildlife.state.co.us/Hunting/GMUnitMaps.htm for some decent (but not very fast) GMU maps and info.
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