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Kelly Hicks on Utah Hunting Versus Wyoming Hunting

When I'm hunting around home in Utah, I primarily hunt from tree stands with my crossbow. While my hunting partner, John Spears, and I are hunting in Wyoming, we’ll be there during the peak of the rut. So, we’ll get up before daylight, fix breakfast and listen for elk bugling. This kind of hunting will be pretty much hunt-and-stalk.

Big Game, Bow

Kelly Hicks Hikes 4 Miles Before Hunting Elk and Explains His Equipment

If I start hunting a mile from the trailhead, I've learned that then I’ll be farther in the woods than 80 percent of the other elk hunters. If I go 2 miles more, I'll eliminate another 10 percent of the elk hunters or 90 percent of the other elk hunters. When I go 3 miles, I’ll lose another 5 percent and at 4 miles distance, I’ll rarely, if ever, see any other hunters. John Spears

Big Game, Mossy Oak, Bow

Karl Badger Hunts Mule Deer Bucks Close to Home

As I’ve mentioned earlier this week, I live in Salt Lake City, Utah, near a major mountain range called the Wasatch Range that runs north to south in northern Utah. The hunting in these mountains there is a lot of fun. I particularly like to hunt mule deer close to home. I’ll either do an all-day or a one-night hunt in these mountains, because they’re not more than 15 or 20 minutes from my home.

Big Game, Deer, Bow

How to Conduct a Remote Bow Bull Elk

I was hunting with a friend of mine at the headwaters of the Yellowstone River in northern Wyoming. My friend got his ram early in the hunt. So, we broke camp, packed up and headed to a place where we wanted to try and take an elk. We set up another camp at about 3 to 4 in the afternoon, got on our horses and rode a little way into the mountains. But the terrain

Big Game, Bow

A Lousy Elk Season Became a Great Elk Season

I had been shooting my bow every day to get ready for elk season. On the first morning of this hunt, I shot over the back of a 6x6 bull I felt I should’ve taken. As I replayed the shot in my mind, I couldn’t think of any mistake I had made, but I knew I must have done something wrong. The second morning of the hunt I shot at a 6x6 that I felt

Big Game, How-To, Bow

Plan Your Own Elk Hunt with a Higher Percentage of Success

Donnelle Johnson of Franktown, Colorado, is an elk-hunting fanatic and has been hunting elk since 1998. When she’s not hunting and calling in elk for herself, she goes with friends and family members and calls in bulls for them. “I just love to be in the woods hunting, calling and trying to outsmart Colorado bull elk on public lands,” Johnson says.

Big Game, How-To, Bow

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