2010 Hunting Report
Late Season Rifle Cow Elk
Lastly, our son Seth took his first elk. A nice cow. Dad Fred guided him and brothers Jeb and Trent helped.
So far we have had six Late Season cow elk hunters, and all six took nice cows and saw between 50 and 100 elk on their hunt.
Archery and Rifle Deer
We had one early season archery deer hunter. Mike from Colorado shot a big 176 inch Mule deer in Velvet.
Late season Archery Deer.
WHITETAIL: We had 3 Archery Whitetail hunters this year. One shot a nice 10 point today after passing on 3 bucks at less than 20 yards, including a a 5 x 5 130 inch buck at 7 yards. The other passed some Pope and Young bucks in the 125-135 range in hopes of connecting with one of the monsters we have on the riverbottom. And our own Jake Kraus shot a nice 8 pt whitetail for Easton Bowhunting TV.
MULE DEER: We had 4 Archery Mule Deer Hunters and ALL harvested nice bucks. All were Traditional bowhunters using either longbows or recurves. Our own Fred Eichler shot a beautiful 170 inch Mule Deer on the ground at 8 yards on video. Look for this show on Easton Bowhunting TV on the Sportsman's Channel beginning in January 2011. Check out the cool photo from the footage!!
We had two late season Rifle deer hunters in this week from Maine. Both Shot their first mule deer ever on the first day of their hunt.
1st Season Rifle Elk/Bear - 2nd Season Rifle Elk/Deer - 3rd Season Rifle Elk/Deer
4th Season Elk
2010 Elk Success photos 2010 Bear Success Photos 2010 Deer Success Photos
1st Rifle elk and bear season was awesome!!! We had 6 clients in this week and 1 of them also had a bear tag. All in all 6 elk hit the ground and one monster 387 lb field dressed Chocolate bear was harvested.
2nd Rifle Elk and Deer we had 7 hunters in for the first 5 days. 4 had elk tags so we were 100% on elk again. In total they harvested 4 elk and 4 deer. The only deer hunter that did not harvest an animal passed on a nice buck that was later harvested by Larry from Illinois. The last 5 days of the 2nd season we had another 4 elk hunters and all 4 harvested nice bulls. So we were 100% on elk for both of our 2nd season elk hunts.
3rd Rifle Season We had 9 elk hunters and 1 deer hunter this season. We harvested 2 6 x 6 bulls and 1 5 x 5 bull. We had lots of other close calls and had 1 small 4 x 4 passed up at 120 yards and a nice 5 x 5 was also passed on. Our one Mule deer hunter shot a nice 4 x 4 on his last day. After five days all but one hunter had a shot opportunity on a legal bull.
4th Rifle Season. We had 3 hunters and one hunter harvested a bull while the other two scored on two nice cows.
Rifle Antelope
Rifle Antelope: Once again we are 100% successful on rifle Antelope hunts. We had 6 buck hunters and 2 doe hunters and all harvested beautiful antelope.
Archery Bear and Rifle Bear
Bear Season has begun, Out of 4 archery bear hunters, we harvested 2 bears. The wet spring left us with acorns everywhere and we worked hard to get the two bears we got. One client saw 3 different bears, but that is a far cry from our normal 3-5 bears a day in a normal year. Fred shot one bear for Predator Nation and our son Seth had a close call on a nice cinnamon bear.
Archery Deer
We had one early season archery deer hunter. Mike from Colorado shot a big 176 inch Mule deer in Velvet.
Archery Elk
The first week we had 2 guided hunters, who are both repeat clients. Both saw bulls and one saw 5 different bulls. No shots were taken. Full Moon and hot weather made it a tough week.
Second week we had one guided elk hunter and two non-guided elk hunters. All three hunters saw bulls. Our two non-guided clients both passed up cows and one had three different close calls with bulls including a twenty five yard encounter with a good bull. Our guided client saw 7 different bulls and was into elk 4 of the 5 days he hunted. He had two close calls with a 300 class bull within 50 yards. But no shot presented itself.
Third week elk we had 2 guided clients, one harvested a nice cow and we had one big 6 x 6 missed and several other close calls
Fourth week we had 1 guided client and 4 non-guided. All were into elk everyday, with two shots on big 6 x 7's for our guided client and several close encounters for our non-guided. One passed on a bull at 5 yards and we had bulls bugling within sight of our bunkhouse.
Fifth Week We have 1 guided client this week who killed a nice 6 x 6 the first night of his hunt.
Archery Antelope
We had 7 hunters in for the first 4 days of Antelope Season. All 7 had shots, so we were 100% on shot opportunities.6 out of the 7 hunters harvested antelope and 5 out of the 6 Bucks we harvested made Pope and Young!! Our own Fred got a buck on video for Easton Bowhunting TV as well.
2nd week was a touch slower but still great. Despite some rain and high winds out of 7 hunters 6 had shots. The one client that didn't get a shot had a trophy buck within 20 yards, but it did not give him a good shot angle. Three clients harvested beautiful Pope and Young bucks this week including 76 year old Grady from Michigan.
3rd week: This week we had 8 guided hunters and 2 non-guided hunters. Our guided hunters went 6 for 8 on arrows shot and 3 out of 8 harvested bucks. Our two non-guided hunters both had bucks within 25 yards and both had shots, 1 harvested a nice Pope and Young buck..
4th week. We had 5 non-guided hunters and all 5 had shots and 4 out of the 5 harvested Antelope and 2 of those made Pope and Young. Our own Michele Eichler guided by 5 year old Trent shot a great buck as well.
The last week of the season our son Jeb shot a nice buck his first night in the blind as well as guide Matt who harvested a buck on the second day of his hunt.
So we had a total of 33 archery antelope hunters and only 3 of them did not take shots. That's a 90% shot opportunity!!
Florida Osceola Turkey
This year again we were 100% on Osceola Turkeys. Our three clients all took mature birds as well as our own Fred Eichler who harvested two nice birds on video. Another great year in Florida!!
Colorado Merriams Turkey
This year has been a little tough with the weather but all but two clients filled their tags. We had 12 clients here in Colorado and all but 2 tagged out on nice birds. Our last client had several opportunities but just couldn't connect.