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STATE: Montana BIGGEST BULL: 290-point 6x6 RIFLE: Winchester M70 CALIBER: 300WSM SCOPE: Leupold Vari-X III 1.75-6x32mm ('1 usually have it set on 1,75Xwhen I am hunting in the timber') AMMUNITION: [...]

YOU ARE A LAME ELK HUNTER, but don't take my disparaging word for it. The numbers prove it. Across the West, from southern Arizona to northern Idaho, only about 20 [...]

Watching a wallow is a great way to punch your elk tag. Here's the plan THE WATER LOOKED like chocolate milk, and the musk of elk urine hung in the [...]

Thirty years ago a good friend and I huddled close to a small fire in the chill of the early morning. A steaming cup of cowboy coffee warmed my hands […]

Each fall, from September to November, thousands of hunters flock from the East and Midwest to the Rocky Mountains to hunt elk. However, the pine-covered slopes and sagebrush basins of [...]

In the late season, when snow lies heavily on the land, getting to elk can sometimes be an adventure in itself. Such was the case on a hunt I made […]

Our legendary rifles editor answers your most pressing questions--like it or not WHAT'S YOUR OPINION ON HAND-LAPPING SCOPE RINGS? --George Gardner, Pittsburgh, Pa. With high-quality rings and/or a light-kicking rifle, [...]

A personal narrative describing the use of elk rifles is presented. A .300 Winchester Magnum is considered one of the best choices for elk hunting but other rifles should not be ignored.

You can count on two things in the late elk season: biting cold and the best elk hunting of the year! IT WAS THE KIND OF MORNING BEST SPENT indoors […]

The cycle of screaming is nonstop and close now, a weird sonic curve of vocal improvisation that begins with the nasty shrill of fingernails on a chalkboard only to give [...]

On a lucky day in winter, I might look through my living room window and see four or five elk grazing on the southwestern hillside. Walking and chomping, walking and [...]

As it is every year, our '95 hunting handbook is packed with no-nonsense tactics. This year we expand our coverage to include muleys, elk, moose, and bears. There's even a [...]

When my two sons each shot elk last season, they were certain their shooting skill alone was the source of their success. As a father, I'll let them believe that. […]

I'M NOT A JANE GOODALL-STYLE NATURALIST, BUT AFter studying elk for eight years I think I know their behavior about as intimately as any individual without a full set of […]

THEY HAVE SURVIVED A LONG TIME by living in the shadows. In the Northern Pacific rain forest, where sunlight rarely shines in densely fogged timberland, Roosevelt elk use their extraordinary [...]

If you think that elk hunting amounts to bulging in a bull with an artificial call, join the club. So do many other folks. But that's not necessarily the case. […]

I RUINED MY BOOTS, MY backpack and my mental health hiking into Blackleaf Canyon in search of elk that weren't there. I committed to the insanity of the 20-mile solo [...]

Every once in a blue moon I make an accidental discovery while hunting, and if my brain comprehends the significance of the event, I'm able to capitalize on the new […]

In the initial stages of elk season, bulls can be bugling one hour and listless the next. Here are a few tricks you can us to crank up the heat […]

It had been the most frustrating, and yet the most glorious, week of elk hunting imaginable. The particular section of southwestern Montana that I was hunting was simply crawling with […]

Elk Will Travel a Mile or Two to Keep out of trouble, and they'll keep moving even when they're seriously wounded. So if you want to be a good elk [...]

It was the kind of steep, slippery slope that made me wish I were in better shape. But my pride was restored a bit when I saw my young outfitter, […]

During the past 30 years, I've had the good fortune to bowhunt and take all 27 varieties of North American big game. Each of these Super Slam animals provided unique […]

Byline: JOHN HAVILAND A trio of guides share their strategies to help you fill your tag The landscape changes, and changes again the length and breadth of elk country. No [...]

Byline: JOHN HAVILAND How and when to talk to elk during the rut From the first brazen bugle at the beginning of the elk rut through the last weary call, [...]

Byline: JEFF MURRAY Try these five strategies to close the deal on hard-to-hunt bulls While elk populations are at or near an all-time high in many Western states, success rates [...]