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If your sights are set on big game hunting, go to the next level with our collection of big game hunting videos and articles. Made to inform and inspire your adventure of a lifetime, you’ll hear firsthand from the masters of high-altitude achievement, and begin your quest toward becoming a stronger & better-prepared big game hunter.

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Mossy Oak Pro Steve Byers on the Biggest Bull He’s Ever Called and How to Call Elk

I'm often asked, “How do you call in your bulls?” I don’t use a lot of bugles. I really believe that’s one of the mistakes that many elk hunters make. They’ll go out and bugle and bugle and bugle trying to get a response from an elk. However, if you watch elk, and you see a bull bugling like that, they’re not really bugling to other bulls.

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The Problems Bowhunters Have with Elk with Guide Steve Byers

When bowhunters go elk hunting, I believe the biggest problem that faces them is judging distance. Most bowhunters don’t understand how big a full-grown bull elk is until they're face-to-face with one. When you see a bull elk at close range, and he's doing everything he's supposed to do, I believe the excitement level or adrenaline rush is taken to a much-higher level than when you’re hunting a whitetail. I've had hunters forget to breathe

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Mossy Oak Pro Lisa Thompson Takes a 280 Yard Shot at a Bull Elk

Both the bulls there were 6-pointers, and they were in the water, wallowing almost directly below us. Across the draw, we spotted a herd bull feeding with his cows. Immediately, I knew that the herd bull was the bull I wanted. When Cathy (the range finder) reported that the bull was 280-yards away, I knew I could make that shot. So, I started trying to get into position to take the shot, because where we

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Mossy Oak’s Lisa Thompson Explains Why She Cow Talks and Doesn’t Bugle for Big Bull Elk

Donnelle Johnson and I both do a lot of cow calling. Even though we may be using the same cow calls, we sound like different cow elk. Regardless of whether we’re giving just a single cow call or a series of cow calls mixed with hyper hot cow calls, we still sound like different cow elk. We've found that this style of calling has been very beneficial for us.

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Who Is Lisa Thompson and How Did She Become an Avid Elk Hunter

I met Donnelle Johnson 20-years ago while I was hunting elk in the same unit with her. We both had gone to a restaurant to eat. Since we were the only two lady hunters in the restaurant, we struck up a conversation and became friends. She’s been my hunting partner ever since. Donnelle and I both are raising children. So, we go hunting together when our husbands can take care of the children. Then when

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Mossy Oak Pro Lisa Thompson Tells How to Take Bull Elk on Colorado’s Public Lands

In 12 years, I've harvested eight, 6-point bull elk in Colorado all on public lands. I don’t hunt from a vehicle. I get off the beaten path. When I climb out of my vehicle, I hike back into steep and rugged ravines that most elk hunters won’t hunt. I realize going in that if I harvest a bull, I'll have to carry him out on a frame pack, and I'm okay with that. I bone

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Mossy Oak’s Lisa Thompson Remembers Her Best Elk Hunt Ever

Mossy Oak Pro Lisa Thompson of Littleton, Colorado, who’s married to her hunter husband Keith and has twin daughters, is one of the most-knowledgeable and physical elk hunters you'll ever meet. She’s also a mom, a business woman, a basketball player and an expert woodswoman. A member of Cabela’s and Nock On, that produces lighted nocks for arrows, pro staffs, Thompson’s successful at taking big bulls on public lands. If you'll apply the tips and

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The Biggest Bull Elk and the Strangest Elk Hunt Ever with Ralph Ramos

I'm a middle school principal, and all my hunts are 3-day hunts. I leave on Friday afternoon, hunt Saturday and Sunday and sometimes on Monday. Then I'm back at school. I average guiding about seven hunters for elk season. So far, we've been 100 percent on taking bull elk. Primarily, I hunt in the Gila National Forest and the Lincoln National Forest in Cloudcroft, New Mex. In the Lincoln National Forest, the bulls will score

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Ralph Ramos Explains the X Zone for Hunting Elk

I believe using the X Zone is the best way to put an elk in front of a hunter. As soon as we locate an elk and hear him bugling, chuckling or growling, I like to move in quickly to get within 150 yards of a bugling bull. Once I get there, I’ll set my hunter up. If he's a right-handed shooter, I’ll have him kneel on his right knee to have 180 degrees where

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Ralph Ramos on How He Hunts Elk - Tactics and Calls

I like working ridge lines. Usually, I try to get on top of a ridge before daylight and call on both sides of the ridge. Also, as I walk down the ridge line, I can call into different draws and cover more prime elk territory than if I stay in the bottoms. I try to get to the ridge as quietly as possible. When I start cow calling, I like to call as softly as

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3 Ways to Quietly Enter and Exit Your Hunting Stand

Stand approach is extremely important. If not executed properly, you can destroy all chances before you ever make it to your tree stand or blind. However, getting there is only half the battle. You also need to retreat out of your area without bumping animals.

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Ralph Ramos Uses Excess Cow Calling to Trigger Bull Elk to Bugle

About 25-years ago, I had an opportunity to hunt with Larry D. Jones in the Gila National Forest near Reserve, New Mex. At the first of the season, the weather was really hot, and the elk weren’t bugling. We sat down for lunch, and Larry said, “Let’s start sounding like two bulls up here on the top of this mountain. Let’s bugle back and forth like bull elk challenging each other. In the middle of

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Talking and Taking Elk with Ralph Ramos

Ralph Ramos from Las Cruces, New Mexico, who has been wearing Mossy Oak for 25 years, has been a member of the Mossy Oak ProStaff for the last 8 years. An elk guide, Ramos teaches a different form of elk calling - aggressive calling that’s had proven success. This week we’ll learn how to get ready for elk season, and why Ramos calls the way he calls.

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Cut the Grass and Use M.E.E.N. Green Fertilizer

About all outdoorsmen have things they’d rather do on weekends than mow the grass on green fields planted for wildlife to increase the amount of food to make deer and turkeys easier to find and take. But in most sections of the country, except for the far north, most wildlife managers already have started mowing their green fields before June.

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How to Save Money and Grow Bigger Deer

Two of the most-overlooked aspects of wildlife management are the importance of spraying herbicides to kill grasses and weeds in green fields and mowing. According to Austin Delano, head of research and development for Mossy Oak BioLogic, after the seeds are in the ground, most hunters walk away and expect to come back just before bow season starts to a lush green food plot. Food-plot management at different times of the year depends primarily on

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