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September 18, 2012, 10:24 PM
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Old Cow
I killed my 1st Elk last week during the Colorado Muzzleloader season.
Because of 2 day's of rain I was running very low on B P as I had to change my load more than usual and that my powder flask wasn't in camp so after dropping the Cow I had to use the powder in my priming tool to reload for the finishing off shot. One thing nice about that was I knew I had to close my pan cover (frizzen) and the pan self primed. While waiting for the packs, I boned out one side and then went for the shinny white teeth to find that there was only 1 tooth in the old girl's mouth . Well she had incizers, but no molars. When my help arrived we started bagging and the milk bags pulled loose and became un-attached. We then had 3/4 mile hump down to camp and being I put her down at 6pm it was getting real dark in the timber. About 1/3 of the way to camp we run across a couple hunters on horses and here its the local Warden and a friend coming in from a evening hunt. Well he stops in our camp and checks everything out and has some questions about the sex evidence that's not attached. After confirming that I did know the bags should be attached he let me off. 
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September 19, 2012, 08:07 AM
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Nice Hawken, I like to see fellow BP hunters and their Hawken rifles. I made my first BP kill with a patched .498 round ball, 120 gr. of BP, vernier peep sight.
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September 19, 2012, 10:42 AM
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Congrats!
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September 24, 2012, 06:30 AM
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I shot an "old cow" elk once in Wyoming-worst tasting, toughest elk meat we ever had.
The guide indicated I should shoot the biggest one which I did. Big in profile but not very wide. |
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September 24, 2012, 10:13 AM
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Nice job Gbro, congrats.
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September 25, 2012, 09:52 AM
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We have brought Elk meat back many times and it matters not what size, they were all tough-FFF! This old cow is ground up and that is just fine because I love ground Elk. I did have the store where i brought it run a few steaks through the chopper that they use to make a cube steak. I had some venison given to me last fall, as I didn't score, that was done like that and it was GRAND. I am kind of savoring the thought of a grilled Elk steak that might not exhaust me.  As for Guide, not for me.
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September 25, 2012, 10:04 AM
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yummy elk burgers
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September 27, 2012, 08:19 AM
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Good shooting with that smoke pole!
Jack
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