Don't worry its all good, rather it be your opinion, your personal experiance or fact. Cumminication is key. I was just trying to key in on the opertunity side of the discusion.

One good thing with the OTC archery elk tag is you can pick which week you want to go in september. I'm now thinking I just might have to go hunt the last two weeks of the season.

my time would be a new moon.
when its dark out the elk will and have always
been more active in the early mornings and late evening.
If there is a full moon they play and chase each other all night and sleep all day.

Thanks to everyone for their feedback

If you can do a little walking around night time on the roads if you have some where you are hunting. When you get away from camp you can find them bugling at night and get a location on them for the next day

I'm in the same boat, i have my big trip planned for sept 16-22 hopefully its cloudy so it confusses the elk and they sleep at night.

I try not to worry about it myself. I have tried to plan many hunting and fishing trips around the moon phase and have been rewared and disappointed during new moon and full moons. I think we over think it alot of times, atleast I do personally. It sounds like you know the pattern they do during the full moon so setup early and take advantage of knowing exactly where to be a when to be there.

I've never hunted Colorado, but frankly here when the rut is in swing I don't notice any real difference. Seems some satilite bull always trying to spin off a cow and the main guy keeping 'em moving or something going on, never letting them rest, LOL. Our hunts during the rut are shorter too however, and we don't have much choice anyway. Never took exact notes though either, but seems to me the effect is more prevelent in non-rut hunts if anything to me.

Good luck.