I contemplated not writing about my last two hunts of the year but this place needs a pick me up right now and figured this should be interesting. I have a late season antelope doe tag in a mostly private unit in northern colorado. West of i70 and south of the border… If anyone has access and wants some elk stakes or something else in return pm me 
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My seven year old daughter’s favorite meat is antelope and she wants to go hunt with dad. I have been swamped with contracts I needed to finish for my business before the end of the year and just finished. I did not draw a tag this year and this was the only one I was able to pick up in the reissue process. I got an Airbnb in the unit for the night of 12/28. We will hunt the 28th and 29th.
The hunt may mostly consist of driving, glassing, and hoping for a generous land owner to have a soft spot for my daughter.
There is a backup plan of a 3 mile bike ride in, river crossing, and a couple mile hike, to get to a spot that might hold antelope. I asked a few people from the forum if they would door knock, or go for the crazy mission with a seven year old. All but some indoor enthusiast said I should door knock. Asked my daughter what she wanted to do, and let’s just say she is my kid. “I want to have fun, not knock on doors, even if we don’t get anything.”
This is where the tail gets interesting. I was finishing up my last contract of the year and had to remove a tree grate in order to grind the stump.
It was this style and about 2” thick. It was so full of dirt and debris I couldn’t get a rope under it. I grabbed the grate to lift it slightly and hopefully get a rope on it to lift with my grapple truck. The grate shifted and slid as I lifted it and could not hold the weight. I dropped the grate and it caught the toes on my left foot.
48 hours later this is what my toe looks like and I cannot put weight on it.
I had to work on it yesterday to finish the contract (business ownership). It sucked. I pulled the crutches out of the basement to keep as much weight off of it as possible. My goal is to heal up enough to hike by Thursday. We shall see. I won’t be in the quitters thread but it may be very limited.
We also have a late season private land deer doe tag that goes till Jan 31st. Hope you all can enjoy this little light at the end of the year. I’d pass up a OIL tag before I would miss a hunt with my daughter. Last year we hunted a doe deer in -3 temps, I tried to talk her out of it but she dragged me out of the house.
.My seven year old daughter’s favorite meat is antelope and she wants to go hunt with dad. I have been swamped with contracts I needed to finish for my business before the end of the year and just finished. I did not draw a tag this year and this was the only one I was able to pick up in the reissue process. I got an Airbnb in the unit for the night of 12/28. We will hunt the 28th and 29th.
The hunt may mostly consist of driving, glassing, and hoping for a generous land owner to have a soft spot for my daughter.
There is a backup plan of a 3 mile bike ride in, river crossing, and a couple mile hike, to get to a spot that might hold antelope. I asked a few people from the forum if they would door knock, or go for the crazy mission with a seven year old. All but some indoor enthusiast said I should door knock. Asked my daughter what she wanted to do, and let’s just say she is my kid. “I want to have fun, not knock on doors, even if we don’t get anything.”
This is where the tail gets interesting. I was finishing up my last contract of the year and had to remove a tree grate in order to grind the stump.
It was this style and about 2” thick. It was so full of dirt and debris I couldn’t get a rope under it. I grabbed the grate to lift it slightly and hopefully get a rope on it to lift with my grapple truck. The grate shifted and slid as I lifted it and could not hold the weight. I dropped the grate and it caught the toes on my left foot.
48 hours later this is what my toe looks like and I cannot put weight on it.
I had to work on it yesterday to finish the contract (business ownership). It sucked. I pulled the crutches out of the basement to keep as much weight off of it as possible. My goal is to heal up enough to hike by Thursday. We shall see. I won’t be in the quitters thread but it may be very limited.
We also have a late season private land deer doe tag that goes till Jan 31st. Hope you all can enjoy this little light at the end of the year. I’d pass up a OIL tag before I would miss a hunt with my daughter. Last year we hunted a doe deer in -3 temps, I tried to talk her out of it but she dragged me out of the house.
