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After The Kill

If your outing goes as hoped, you’ll be faced with the most overlooked aspect of most elk hunts — butchering and transporting your trophy to civilization. Here’s how to get your meat safely home.

Waterhole Elk

Treestand and/or ground blind hunting over a water source can be an extremely effective — and less physically demanding — method of bowhunting elk. Here’s how and when to set up.

Calling In Bulls

Undoubtedly, the single most utilized tactic for bowhunting elk revolves around attempting to call bulls into bow range. Here’s how to get it done — gun hunters take note.

Gear Up For Elk

A successful and enjoyable backcountry, do-it-yourself elk bowhunt (or rifle hunt) requires the accruement of a good complement of gear. Save your greenbacks and purchase only top-end quality — certainly here, you get what you pay for in equipment. Here is some gear to consider for your next hunt.

Get Mental And Physically Tough

Nothing will be more influential to the success of the public-land, do-it-yourself elk bowhunter or firearm hunter than mental and physical toughness. Here’s what you need to achieve to make your trip a success.

High Country Elk

Few things in hunting are as exciting and satisfying as hunting elk. Maybe most intriguing is that there are so many approaches to the sport. If an elk hunt is in your future, here are some tips for making it a success.

Elk Hunting: Cartridges, Aiming Tips

Probably the best all-around elk cartridge available today is the .300 Winchester Magnum. With 10 percent more power with a 180-grain bullet than the old reliable .30-06 (a good elk cartridge itself), it also delivers more recoil.

The Ups And Downs Of Elk Hunting

The only way elk have of satisfying their comfort-zone needs is to move about in their range of habitat. Here’s where to find them and also some advice on hunting at high altitudes.

Know What You Are Getting Into

Once you’ve booked an elk hunt, you need to start assembling necessary gear, and get yourself physicaly fit for the trip. Here are some tips to get you ready.