Hunting

How Many Cow Elk Do You Need?

Walk-in areas on private ranches that are managed by the Game and Fish Department are other places where I find good cow-elk hunting. The landowners in these regions get too much elk pressure on their lands and may ask the Game and Fish Department for help in removing some of those excess elk. Once the Game and Fish Department examines these properties and deems a certain number of elk need to be removed to keep

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Josh Van Vlack on Doubling Down on Late Season Elk

Josh Van Vlack, who lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been hunting elk since 2001 and has been a Mossy Oak Pro since 2006. Van Vlack is a double dipper during elk season. Like many western hunters, Van Vlack knows that an elk or two can supply plenty of meat – really delicious meat – for his family all year long for a very low price, and he gets the recreational value of hunting elk as

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Equipment Needed for a Late Season Elk Hunt

The first and most important equipment for a late-season elk hunt is a quality pair of waterproof boots. You don’t want to show up in camp with your new boots still in the cardboard shipping box. You should have your boots broken in and know that you can wear them without getting blisters and without getting your feet wet. You may want to consider bringing a pack boot that has a rubberized sole and bottom,

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What You Must Understand about Weather and Elk Hunting

If you don’t know when to continue or to discontinue the hunt and look for shelter, you can get in serious trouble. If you're hunting elk in the late season, you need to be prepared to hunt under some really tough conditions. If you’ve got the potential for rain or snow to hit while you're out hunting, you need to be prepared to either hunt in that weather or survive in that weather.

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How to Find Elk When They're Not Talking

The real key to finding elk in the late season is being familiar with the travel corridors they use when they come out of the high country and/or when they leave the parks. Typically, elk will follow the same migration routes every year, depending on when cold weather hits and where the food source is that they normally go to. Those are the two main reasons that makes scouting over the internet and the telephone

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How Late Season Elk Hunting Is Different from Early Season Elk Hunting

In the late season, patience will be your number-one tactic if you're trying to take a herd bull. Often the herd bull will be covered up with cows. If you're bowhunting in the late season, taking a herd bull becomes much more difficult than if you're hunting with a rifle.

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