Colorado Bighorn Sheep Hunt

[Mike Bolin]

Steve, thank you for sharing your hunt with us. I think it is awesome that your family got to share this with trip you! When you get the chance, post and let me know what camera you used and I am curious as to what bow/arrow/broadhead combo you carried? I do hope you get drawn again, but if you don't you have already made memories that will last forever! Thanks again, Mike

[Duckbutt]

Nasty weather predictions and poor planning kept me out of the game.  Buuuuuut there's always next year if you want to divulge some of those spots.  I got a whole year to study some new maps.  :D   I was huntin west of leadville and you were east if I remember correct.

Again, just wish I'd known you were totin a curve.  I would have spent the final two days carryin your pack or something.  Hope you get another shot some day.

[Steve O]

Mike,

Little Sony DSC-200 7.2MP Point & Shoot

I was shooting my Silvertip 55#@28"  drawing to 29.5 with Beeman MFX Classic 400s and 100g RazorCaps.  That gave me a point-on of 55 yards; pretty flat shootin' rig  

[Steve O]

 Sitka doesn't make a Fedora   :D  

If you are going back, I can for sure mark up a few spots on the east side.  I may want to get back there in a couple years for deer, and it would be a lot better with a partner.  Marv taught me the flagging system pretty good...

[Shaun]

Hey Steve O, sounds like a great hunt. Good luck pulling another tag someday. Hope to see you around Iowa City again sometime. Good Hunting!

[Guru]

Steve, That's a great hunt and time very well spent.

Looking forward to putting my Sitka gear to the test. I'm very much looking forward to it....

[Duckbutt]

Originally posted by Steve O:

If you are going back, I can for sure mark up a few spots on the east side.  I may want to get back there in a couple years for deer, and it would be a lot better with a partner.  Marv taught me the flagging system pretty good...

Shoot, are you kidding?  I'd leave tomorrow just to meet Marv!  I've got a couple of pref points for deer and I plan to go back.  Just don't know exactly when yet.  I'm trying to get to North Dakota in a couple of weeks and lick my wounds in a treestand for a few days.  Let's stay in touch on the CO deer.  I did have trouble locating bucks once the thermals changed and I tried to come in from above.  A spotter would have been better for sure.

[Matty]

Awesome thanks for sharing that!

[Jeff Holchin]

Hey I just found this thread - great job, Steve!  You had it all except the kill - you saw some rams and had some chances, got the family involved, met some other sheep hunters, saw some awesome things of nature, and gave it your all.  To me, an awesome bowhunt!

[Ragin Bull]

Great story, Thanks for sharing. I have hopes of hunting bighorns oneday (soon ???) myself.

[whitebuffalo]

wow what a trip Steve,, I remember you talking about it at the shoot,,