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Hmm... I guess the trade off here is I don't get to annoy my wife to the point of her leaving the house to go thrifting if I'm not practicing my elk calls all summer long. Give to get I guess...

Unit 74 by Durango Archery.

Forgive my laziness, probably won't look it up, but is that legal?

Still time to apply in Colorado...

7E early archery!

Beautiful bull! Congratulations!

Don’t have e-tag but my portal showed mine and my buddies tag numbers, then they disappeared this morning. The web designer is probably trying to meet a deadline for this week.

That’s a bummer, brother. Sorry to hear it.

Yesterday afternoon

Card hit baby! 7E archery or 22N late rifle!

We’re you guys able to seal the deal? I’m on the peaks and haven’t heard a bugle in 5 days. Been tough over here.

Excellent Bull! Congratulations!

What a fantastic bull! Congratulations!

I sure am glad no one likes it.

I really enjoyed that hung last year! We scouted hard!

Kachina Peaks ML baby! I'm so dang excited for this hunt!

Who knows. Everything is going faster than last year, which is cool.

Oh my. Definitely a stud!!!

I will absolutely do one! I've been wondering about it for a long time.

1st choice was muzzleloader, second was archery.

Got a hit too. Kachina Peaks for this guy! I've been wondering about this hunt for a few years now.

Awesome bull!

I’m really excited to be heading back to 4B after a few years away. I had the late archery tag in 2018 and didn’t end up killing a bull. Had a bull at 75 yards coming into water but he was 25 yards passed my comfort zone for an archery shot. I have the 28 Nosler this year. Excited to give you all the story on this oddly controversial unit in a couple weeks. See y’all out there!

Good luck! Hunt hard!

Update: My wife and I spent the week prior to the hunt scouting and staring at elk pretty hard in the unit and were able to be successful opening morning! About 10 minutes after shooting light I hit my bull in the shoulder with the 28 Nosler at 385 yards. We saw quite a few elk in some really rough places. All in all it wasn’t a terrible pack out and I’m super proud of this bull out of a mid-tier unit.