Unit 51 CO Hunt for Sept

[Point_Taken]

Anyone got any experience with this hunt in this area/time frame or should I opt for a refund on the tag?

 

[dok7mm]

If you drew a tag for 51, there must be a reason why you applied???? That's in the Pike NF, but not far from an area I have hunted and seen bear. Bears are where you find them in the fall.

 

[Point_Taken]

Haha yeah, I should have specified a little more. I applied for a few tags that I wasn't expecting to draw, which I ended up drawing on.

 

[KurtB]

CO success rate on bears is somewhere around 8%. If you don't have the time to work it, I'd turn it back in. I tend to be around 75% successful, but I spend a bit of time in Sept looking for them. Good luck either way. If you do go, find acorns and berries and look for bear sign.

 

[COBrad]

September is the best time to hunt bears here.

 

[Point_Taken]

Yeah my plan was to go out there for one week in Sept, about 7-8 days in the field. But probably won't have anytime to scout the month prior since now I have a hunt in August.

 

[Stk]

Saw one in unit 51 last year when I was out elk hunting in September. Of course, that was the one year I didn't pick up a tag.

 

[6.5x284tony]

Saw one in unit 51 last year when I was out elk hunting in September. Of course, that was the one year I didn't pick up a tag.

How was the elk hunting for you?

 

[Stk]

Successful this year, but I moved to and hunted in Montana! Last year I hunted 51 in Colorado with muzzleloader. Didn't connect but got close on a couple bulls. Probably could've had one if I knew how to bugle back then. In that one week I hunted I had that bear walk by at about 50 yards, and I had a mountain lion walk right up to me at 17 yards (ranged him).

There are plenty of elk and other critters in 51 if you know where to find them. I could find elk around the rut in September, but come rifle season, they're all somewhere else, and I don't know where.