Colorado?

[hunter22]

Anyone hunting Colorado? I am going out there this weekend to finish out my season. Been a great year so far and hope to end it with two more gobblers. I plan to hunt Rios in the eastern part of the state and maybe finish in the mountains chasing a Merriam's.  I have a public land limited tag for the Rio and plan to buy an over the counter tag for the Merriam's.

[spaightlabs]

What unit are you in for your Rio?  guessing 96 or 91?

If so, lots of activity right now - was out in 96 yesterday goofing around and stopped by a friend's farm - 5 big puffers hanging around and enjoying the spring day before the rain...

Haven't heard much from anyone causing the Ridge Runners, but I have a buddy going out this weekend in the foothills up north and can let ya know.

[spaightlabs]

Ps - getting a little 'ticky' out along the river...bring your bug dope.  Been raining  good bit lately and supposed to keep raining on and off for the next several days - when the sun pops out it'll get humid fast and the bugs will be hungry.

[hunter22]

I will be hunting Unit 103.

[spaightlabs]

Ahhhh, Bonny/Republican.

Haven't heard anything out of there yet this year. I suspect it should be about the same as the rest of the eastern plains.

[hunter22]

I have hunted it one other year and had an awesome hunt. I killed a gobbler before 6:00am the first morning. I messed with them for a couple more days after that and called in a bunch of gobblers. Going a little later this year and did not know what to expect.

[SCtrkyhntr]

I will be hunting Unit 103.

You should be good.  I drove through there on Monday and saw plenty of birds out and about.  Good luck out there!

[spaightlabs]

Looks like it could be soggy/snowy depending on where you are.  Friends killed a couple of great mountain birds up north today, took some boot leather to find them, but one they did they sealed the deal on 2 nice ones in 15 minutes.

[hunter22]

Looks like it will be pretty nasty where I am going this weekend. Snow showers with lows in the 20s and winds 30+ mph. But it is suppose to be nice next week. I will probably not start hunting until next Monday. If I kill a Rio early I plan to go down around Trinidad and hunt around the Twin Peaks area for a few days.

[stringtown]

We hunted the 5/6/7th on public in Pagosa Springs area. First 2 days were rough weather wise but once the sun came out on the 7th it was lights out.  We had to get really high though b/c of pressure in early season I guess. 

[spaightlabs]

River bottoms out east are out of their banks.  Some concern that it could be worse than the 500 year floods of 2013 in areas.

Be careful. 

[hunter22]

I got home from Colorado last night. I hunted in the snow and 30 mph winds a couple days. But I did manage a Rio on the plains and a mountain gobbler at 8500 ft in the San Isabel National Forest. Nothing like turkey hunting and seeing lots of elk while hunting.  One of my favorite hunts I have ever been on. I will post some pics later.