welcome to eastman's hunting tv we're gonna go elk hunting with a muzzleloader in colorado but this
isn't your traditional mountain hunt we're going out to eastern colorado out into the plains in the
farm country the state of colorado has elk where they don't really want elk so they have a lot of
depredation hunts and we're going to go out and take advantage of one of these opportunities with
a muzzleloader during the rut you know a lot of these elk live in those big mesas and deep dark
canyons most of the year but during the rut they come up onto those big flats and into those farm
fields to rut those cows so it's going to be a lot of excitement and definitely a non-traditional
type elk hunt so let's get right to it let's get out to eastern colorado and see if we can
find one of those big rutting bulls that have come out of those deep dark canyons where nobody goes
it could have been him bugling sounds about where it came from
right through the trees on the other side they're all standing up through those cottonwoods there's
another bull small one we've got our herd elk and we're waiting for them to to move
out they're kind of behind some cottonwoods now it's a little different on these desert bulls
around all this agriculture stuff so we're kind of in a waiting game here hoping the sun
goes down quick and it cools off so they can they'll move out into the open
well he didn't want to come out he was coming back for something but not us he came back for
those other cows he's back out there now so we're gonna go try to get closer
joe and i got got in here but he's a little too far out he's about 210 yards right now
we need him about half that so we're just gonna sit and watch but he's wallowing up at
the other end there but that's alright just the first night
and you never know what might happen i mean other bulls will start piling in here it's only
the 12th of september we got till the 16th so we're in good shape i just wish it was a little
cooler and there weren't so many mosquitoes jeez we're gonna get packed away in here
this is eastman's i'm firearm hunting elk at near archery ranges this week
with my open sight muzzleloader this is an early season hunt in the plains of colorado
not really what you think of when you hear colorado and elk hunting but these farmers
are being covered up by elk in their fields and we're here to help them out a little bit
three bulls
too bad he wasn't the bigger bull
we're going to loop around
i think the herd kind of moved that way so we're gonna loop around see if we can cut them off
those thermals it got hot enough to push the wind
whoosh right in on them
well we uh we're down in the trenches with the elk again today that's one of the strange things
about hunting this lower deserty farm country as you get in these river bottoms and these elk are
concentrated so when you get down in with them you're in tight and it's so thick you can't see
we had elk all all morning they didn't booger out of here completely they just moved off away from
us because they only got a whiff they didn't get a full-on burst of us so we're gonna slip on out
and uh and come come back in the evening we're gonna let let these be let them settle down
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look at the smoke the ol uh smoke pole jeez we've been playing cat and mouse with these elk
for three days he's down holy smokes look at this size of this bull
this is a crazy bull 18 points on this dude 9x9 i mean he's not a giant giant framed bull but
he's a big big older bull his nick is huge worked out awesome just a really cool bull he's like a
red stag up here with all this junk going on and it worked out for us this time we're all tagged
out on the 2018 colorado muzzleloader elk season down here southern colorado got this really cool
character bull nine by nine couldn't be happier a lot of fun open sight muzzle loader it's a little
bit of a challenge but i wouldn't have it any other way it was a lot of fun we had to work
hard at it we got her done so we hope you enjoyed today's show remember fair chase is the only way
to hunt and take trophy big game we'll see you next week right here on eastman's hunting tv