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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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Having a Face-to-Face Elk Encounter

The bull then stopped 8 yards from me with both of his legs straight out like he was putting on brakes. He looked at me and bugled straight into my face.

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Hunting Elk on Rainy Days

On that hunt, I learned about how to overcome my fears and learned that when you’re in the wilderness for 11 days and don’t know how long you’ll be there.

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Forging Relationships through the Outdoors

Every outdoors enthusiast needs to read this blog before it’s too late for him or her to impact a daughter, a niece or some other female to love being outdoors. Mossy Oak Pro Donnelle Johnson of Franktown, Colorado, spotlights something that many of us overlook and don’t do – take our girls hunting and teach them a love for the outdoors.

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You Can Fly Fish, Kayak, Hike and Hunt with Adaptive Equipment

More and more national forests are paving hiking trails, so that people with manual wheelchairs can hike with their families.

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Types of Adaptive Outdoor Equipment for Hunters with Disabilities

I break down adaptive equipment into three categories: equipment originally designed for able-bodied people but that can be used by people with disabilities, equipment specifically designed for people with physical disabilities, and equipment or modifications of equipment people build in their garages and workshops. Let’s look at these categories.

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Hear Better, Hunt Better

Most outdoor mentors and their students now understand that a few minutes of casual skeet shooting without hearing protection is a serious – potentially life altering – mistake.

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Solo Hunting: 7 Safety Tips for Hunting Alone

Safety is important during any hunt, but it becomes a matter of life or death during solo hunts in rough terrain.

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Your Guide to How Hunting Tags Work

Hunting tags give you the right to kill a specific animal during hunting season. The luck of the draw is a huge factor, so it’s best to apply early.

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Pope & Young Now Ranks Velvet-Antlered Mule Deer Bucks

Having the world-record mule-deer buck taken with archery equipment is not nearly as important to me as keeping that animal exactly the same way he was when I harvested him.

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The Bull Elk That Taught Mark Hanson the Most

You’re destined to be enamored by any monster bull. I was deadset on taking that 400+ bull. I passed up several other really nice bulls, because I decided I was going to take that monster bull and put my tag on his rack.

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Elk Hunting with Friends is Fun and Also Necessary at Times

Over the years, I’ve learned that the more friends you have, who will hunt with you, or come to where you’ve got an elk down and help you get the bull back to your vehicle, makes the job of butchering and carrying out meat much quicker, and the hunt’s more fun for everyone.

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More on Mark Hanson’s Biggest Bull Bow Elk Ever

My son being with me meant we could share the memories of this hunt together, and I could get my elk out of the woods more quickly with my son helping.

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Mark Hanson’s Biggest Bull Elk with a Bow

From earlier hunts, I knew elk would feed in the meadows at night and return to the wilderness area just at sunup.

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Mark Hanson’s Elk Addiction

I primarily hunt in eastern Arizona, near the New Mexico border, south of Alpine, Arizona, just outside of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. In the past, drawing an elk tag was much easier than it is today.

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Elk Hunting with a Caller, Cameraman and Shooter

When we hear the elk bugle or reach the spot where we want to call, the shooter, the cameraman and the caller usually will be standing together.

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