re: DIY elk hunt CO unit 35

Being completely honest with you - as someone who has been there and done that - you’re signing up to buy a good bit of new gear and go on a hiking trip with your bow. You’ll be with a friend and have a good time and see some beautiful country, but the odds are against you to actually kill. If the success rate is 10% then know there are probably a few guys that hunt the unit every year that are killing half of the bulls that get killed in the unit each year. For a random guy to just show up on a hunt like that, the actual success rate will be a fraction of the posted success rate.

With that said, if you think this type of hunt may be something you want to get into then go and get your feet wet and you’ll learn a lot that you can use next year, etc. I made my first hunting trip out west about 5 years ago and have been elk, antelope, or mule deer hunting out west every year since.

If you’re looking to kill something then I’d go to Kentucky and hunt velvet white tails.