General Elk Hunting Tips with Kristy Titus
Calling and being a successful archery elk hunter is simply time on the mountain learning to judge elk behavior, what they are telling you with their vocalizations, and putting all of that information together to create the best strategy that you can with the information that you know at the time. In the latest episode […]
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4 Tips for Hunting Bachelor Bull Elk
Secure in the distance, elk grazed in a mile long park of grass. A few young bulls stood among the 60-some elk, and every so often one of them turned sideways to reveal spikes or set of spindly antlers. More elk stood inside the forest edge at the top of the mountain, a good distance […]
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How Spring Elk Sheds Can Help Locate Your Next Trophy Bull
Hunting for whitetail shed antlers may dominate much of the country, but shed antler hunters in the West look for a bigger prize. Elk also shed their antlers annually and whereas a good whitetail shed antler may weigh in at two pounds, a hefty elk antler could tip the scales at 10 pounds or more. […]
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Six Ways to Improve Your Ground Blind Hunting Experience
Ground blind hunting is one of the coolest things to do for a couple of reasons, one of them being that you’re pretty much on eye level with the deer and other wildlife.Ground Blind Hunting comes in all forms. They can be something you build from natural vegetation or one more obvious like this Redneck […]
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Know-How: Five Elk-Calling Don’ts
At first light I was sitting on a Montana mountainside listening. Somewhere in the drainages below an elk had bugled. I spotted tan shapes passing between stands of aspen. Just as my game plan was forming I heard another hunter bugle from the horse trail a half-mile back. I winced and held my breath. Though the […]
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If You Love Elk Hunting, You Need to See Corey Jacobsen’s New Video: The Linguists
Watch as renowned elk caller Corey Jacobsen explores the hunting legacy of the pioneers of modern elk calling in this fantastic new video: The Linguists.Elk calling is an incredibly important skill, particularly for archery hunters out in the woods during the rut. It’s a mix of art and science, which makes it difficult for most […]
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7 Secrets for Bowhunting Bull Elk From Two Hunters with a Crazy Success Rate
Nine out of 10 bowhunters in the Idaho Panhandle don’t kill an elk in any given year. The country is steep, deep, and brush-choked. But Jim Kane has bowhunted here for 36 years, and has killed 30 bulls. His son Matt is 12 for 14; two of his last three bulls carried more than 300 […]
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The Best Setup for Bowhunting Elk
(John Hafner photo)For me, the annual highlight of archery elk edges out the November whitetail rut for sheer bowhunting enthusiasm. There’s something about elk. They’re big and wear a lot of bone, but there’s more to it than this; a gregarious nature, majestic terrain and the proactive hunting style (no sitting for me; you can have water-holes and […]
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9 Tips and Tactics for Elk Hunting Success
Elk hunting can be one of the toughest hunts you accomplish in your lifetime, but sometimes it can be one of the easiest hunts. The following 9 hunting tips can help you to make your quest for a bull elk successful and a little easier. Elk hunters cannot control the weather or the elk, but […]
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6 Toughest Big-Game Archery Adventures
In my July 2016 column, I touched on some challenging hunts, and since then I’ve had quite a few people ask me for more details on the subject. So here are a few of my top picks for extremely difficult hunts, and what made them such a challenge for me.Coues DeerOut of the five species […]
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