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Comments Off on Tactics to Take Older Public Land Deer Day 1: Outhunt Public Land Deer Hunters
Deer Hunting, Hunting Advice
Editor’s Note: To take one mature whitetail buck from public-hunting lands is a major accomplishment. But to consistently take older-age-class bucks on public lands in several states year after year, you must have an extraordinary game plan. To take a buck with a composite score of 179 inches (the composite score
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Comments Off on Taking Bull Elk Day 5: Learn Wolf Hunting Tips for Elk Hunters
Elk Hunting, Hunting Advice
Wolves have become problems in some states as predators on elk. In an online questionnaire about their wolf-hunting experiences, members of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (https://www.rmef.org/) offered valuable tips to help more hunters enjoy the challenge and fill their wolf tags. The RMEF members’ goal in
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Comments Off on Taking Bull Elk Day 4: Call Utah’s Bull Elk
Elk Hunting, Hunting Advice
Editor’s Note: My friend Al Morris of Springville, Utah, won the World Elk Calling Contest, and he and his partner Garvin Young also are coyote-calling champions. Morris and Young were in Utah assisting Kenyan Davis in filling his bull elk tag. I was hunting in Utah for the beginning of rifle season one year
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Comments Off on Taking Bull Elk Day 3: Hunt New Mexico’s Bull Elk
Elk Hunting, Hunting Advice
Editor’s Note: Alex Rutledge of Birch Tree, Missouri, an accomplished turkey, deer, elk and predator caller, consistently takes big bucks and earns his living as a professional hunter. Rutledge has hunted throughout the United States, taping hunts for numerous videos and TV shows. Today, he’ll tell us about the
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Comments Off on Taking Bull Elk Day 2: Take All Your Calls for Elk
Elk Hunting, Hunting Advice
Editor’s Note: Nationally-known hunter Phillip Vanderpool of Harrison, Arkansas, went on an elk hunt in Raton, New Mexico, with professional elk hunter and caller Wayne Carlton (https://www.nativebycarlton.com/) and videographer Jimmy Estes. On the first afternoon of the elk hunt, two elk came to within 15 to 30
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