Trust your instincts. If you?re seeing fresh sign and it feels ?elky?, slow down and consider how elk might use the terrain to their advantage. Hunt your way off the mountain and avoid switching over to ?hiking mode? and shutting off hunting mode or you just might blow a great opportunity. Elk...
I've always packed bear spray but I never end up carrying it in Colorado. I mean, what are the odds I'd need it? Who wants to carry extra weight? I'm going out solo for the first time in 2019 and also camping for part of the trip for the first time. Given these changes and the below encounter...
A lot of guys, myself included, don?t get to hunt elk often enough to maximize the education elk so readily provide. Elk hunting for 10-12 days straight always leave me with tons of questions and not enough time to answer them from one day to the next. I can sometimes answer my own questions...