Wildlife & Related

[Bailey Guns]

Those are fantastic! I'd have a hard time choosing the best one...though I do like the frog.

[Irving]

Don't think I ever posted any of my hunting pictures (except for the animals). Sorry in advance for cell phone photos.

We all saw this cloud at about the same time and briefly wondered if Colorado Springs had been nuked while we were out hunting. This is also the same meadow where we spotted the herd. Having never seen more than a handful of elk together in my life, and only an occasional lone spike while hunting, this was pretty exciting. We practically ran up the hill after them. *There are no elk in this photo, we saw them later in the week.



Screen shot from a video of me feeding a doe at the cabin. At some point, I may put all my videos together of this year's hunt and slap it up on Youtube.



Opening day. It was foggy all morning, cleared up when the sun came out, then a "cloud" visibly crashed over the mountain and you could see the mist sparkling every where you looked. Camera phone of course can't do it justice.



I was certain this was a bear track. I was extremely excited to find a bear though. I'll let you be the judge. I saw more of these, but this was the only photo I took.


Elk skulls and remains pretty common in the area.


I thought for sure this was a black bear, and it immediately got my heart pounding. You don't often see black in nature. I had also hiked out further than ever before and was in a relatively new territory. I was nervous that I was going to get the bear I wanted so badly, but have a hard time finding it again. Turns out it was just a charred log and I wasn't that far from familiar territory.




This area was logged in the 50's-70's?? Not sure, but all the trash is old.

[Irving]

Kind of adverse to what we usually post up in this thread, but if no one has ever seen a blood trail before, here you go.


And of course the obligatory, annual, shot of a magpie standing on a mule deer.

[William]

Looks like a great area to be in. Iron sights for Elk?

[Irving]

Yeah, no optics allowed for muzzleloader or archery season.

[William]

Pretty sad I don't know what season it is. Great pics, would love to be out there hunting but didn't get a tag this year.

[Irving]

We all start somewhere. Five years ago my uncle invited me to hunt with him and I said Heck Yeah and ran out and bought a Savage in .308. Then three years ago when we finally drew tags, he told me, again, "I told you this is muzzleloader season, you bought the wrong gun." So I had to run out and buy a muzzleloader and learn to use it in the few months before my first ever hunting trip. Muzzleloader season is mid-September by the way.

[Bailey Guns]

I like that glass bottle. Cool.

[Irving]

Glass bottle got carried out in tact. We also brought out an old Budweiser can and an old Pepsi can. The Pepsi can was in a draw that allowed it to be in the shade most of the time and aged very well. I'll go snap a picture of it real quick.

[Irving]

Promise I won't post anymore trash pictures in the Wildlife thread.