Video taken near Estes, Colorado on a Forest Service access road. Estes is near Rocky Mountain National Park, home to one of the largest elk herds in the country.
Thanks to Tyke Bennett and Aaron Enget for sending this in!
This is a cell phone photo of Jake, a hand for Cevey Pennington in Parker, Colorado. I’ve never met Jake, or maybe I have but didn’t know who he was at the time. I sure didn’t know him way back in 2005 when we came up with the logo for Doubletough. Aaron Enget told the story that inspired the name, which you can read about here, and when I try to envision a guy tougher than a fella ridin’ a grizzly bear, this photo is it. The boots, spurs, worn chaps, bloody gloves, dusty hat and hidden face….damn that guy is tough.
Jake shot this muley on Cevey’s place on November 3 of last year. I’ve been sitting on the photo ever since trying to come up with a post about it. I still can’t. It’s a bit blurry, the color is off with almost an antique appeal. Still, the photo speaks for itself.
Click the photo for the full-size version. Thanks to Doubletough contributor Aaron Enget.
Congratulations to Clyton, a friend of Cevey Pennington of Colorado. This was his first mule deer and a darn nice one at that.
Thanks to Aaron Enget for sending this in!
These photos were forwarded by Doubletougher Aaron Enget of Colorado, who shot them over the weekend. He found this bull and cows about eight miles from his mother’s house, along County Road 5 northeast of Divide, CO. Fortunately for them, she doesn’t hunt.
But Aaron does.
If you’ve ever seen Pikes Peak Raceway south of Colorado Springs, you would understand how this wayward coyote found his way onto the track. Located between the Springs and Pueblo, it’s pretty much in the middle of nowhere and deer sightings are frequent along the nearby interstate. Check out the story after the jump from NASCAR driver Brand Coleman.
This whole Doubletough idea got started with a simple story told in elk camp late one evening in the hills north of Meeker, Colorado, near Sleepy Cat mountain. The storyteller, Aaron Enget, is the Director of Rodeo Administration at the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and his office drips of the western lifestyle. But something was missing.
A couple years ago Aaron knocked down his first muley near Elizabeth, CO and it wound up being just the touch his office needed. Around that same time, the other founding member of our trio, John Tripp, was in New Mexico and took an aoudad ram. John didn’t have anywhere to put the mount so it was relegated to the garage for about a year. Such a fine mount needed a place of honor and so it was that Aaron offered to add it to his office.
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Last fall Aaron Enget of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in Colorado Springs, Colorado sent in photos of a mule deer that took up residence on the grounds of the PRCA. According to this photo, shot today, the buck made it through the season and is back for another summer at the PRCA “spa” along with several of his buddies.
Asked if they spook when folks walk by (the main entrance is to the left, just outside of the photo), “Depends on the stealth level. My assistant went to take a picture and she dropped her phone and they all ran off.”
Looks to me they could “adopt” this bunch by giving them sponsor names (Dodge, Justin, Wrangler, Boyd) and build a youth-targeted campaign around them. But that’s just me.
