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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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How to Plan a Remote Elk Hunt

Once I have my base camp set up, my hunting party and I will get up at 4 a.m., saddle up our horses, cook a good breakfast and pack our lunches. We want to be on a trail to move farther into elk country by at least 1 to 1-1/2-hours before sunrise. We usually ride from 2 to 5 miles out from base camp before we start hunting. We make it a point to set

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Why Karl Badger Hunts Elk on Horseback

Karl Badger from Salt Lake City, Utah, captures the essence of what elk hunting is all about and hunts elk all over the West. He’s been a Mossy Oak Pro for 8 years and is a Regional Pro Staff manager. In some western states, mule deer and elk seasons start about August 15 for bowhunting and usually continues until the end of September. Firearms season continues to the end of November or the first of

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A Bull Elk for Jimmy

The first day of this hunt, Lisa Thompson and I were going to help Jimmy Brannan, a 71-year-old friend of ours, who had had two knee replacements, try to take his bull of a lifetime. Jimmy had 23 preference points to be able to hunt the Bosque del Oso State Wildlife Area - one of the prime elk areas in Colorado. Only four tags are given out each year to hunt this region. Jimmy had

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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

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Increase Your Odds of Finding and Taking Bull Elk by Using Resources

Dave and I almost became obsessed with gathering hunting information and trying to help do-it-yourself hunters increase their odds for success. Just this past year we added harvest sites for goat, sheep, moose and lions with specific recommendations of where your chances are best to take these animals in our database, and we have about 13,000 kill sites in that database.

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Gather Information Yearly to Increase Odds for Taking an Elk

Dave researched Colorado’s Parks and Wildlife information to see what he could learn about elk hunting, where he could hunt on public lands, and where his chances were best to successfully take an elk. He also wanted to know how many preference points a person had to have to hunt the better units with the most elk in them with either a gun, a bow or a blackpowder rifle. In his spare time, he dug

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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.

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Colorado’s Mike Miller and the 300-Yard Bull Elk

This hunt took place on the opening day of elk rifle season one year. My hunter and I drove up to a place that I liked to glass from because I could see almost the entire mountain range. I didn’t like to go to this spot before daylight, since I believed the headlights on my truck would spook the elk. Once we had some natural light, I took my spotting scope and binoculars there and

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Colorado’s Mike Miller and the Deep Canyon Bull Elk

On one opening-day archery hunt, we got up before daylight and went to the spot where we could watch wide expanses and a deep canyon. My hunter saw several big bulls, and I talked him into going down in the canyon, an 1800-foot descent to reach the bottom. I knew there was good water down there and several wallows. We went to the end of the canyon that had only two ways out - climb

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Colorado’s Mike Miller Tells Us about an Opening Morning Elk Archery Hunt

I’d been watching this large herd of elk for a couple of weeks that had one big herd bull, about 300 cows and eight satellite bulls. When I got my client in the position where he could see the herd, I said, “Okay. Here is the herd. We’re going to attempt to move close enough for you to get a shot at the herd bull without spooking the rest of the elk.”

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Colorado’s Mike Miller’s Best Opening Day Bull Elk

One time I had trail camera pictures of a herd bull that scored 352 inches. Within 30 minutes of legal shooting time during muzzleloader season that year, that bull was on the ground. I got up in camp at about 5 a.m., and my hunter was so excited he had been up and ready to go since 4 a.m. We checked out all our gear to make sure my hunter had bullets, powder and percussion

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Colorado’s Mike Miller Explains How to Get Ready for Elk Season

Mike Miller is a Mossy Oak Pro Staffer, who lives in Canon City, Colorado, and has been hunting for elk for 15 years. Currently he’s an elk guide for Loco Mountain Outfitters in Cotopaxi, Colorado, on public and private lands.

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Brandon Scherff Says He’s Looking Forward to Football and Hunting in 2016

Football is a lot like hunting in that the more time and energy you spend on the small details of both sports, the greater your chances are of being successful and/or winning. In football, all five linemen have to be on the same page, and each man has to execute his assignment to the best of his ability on every play. Our line is only as strong as the line’s weakest person.

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5 Fixes for Over-browsed Food Plots

Let’s face it, if you have a problem with your food plots being browsed-down by the time hunting season begins, the problem is likely that you have too few food plot acres for your deer density – simply put, you have too many mouths to feed and not a big enough “kitchen.” Here are some tricks to help you save some of that attractive forage for when you decide to “ring the dinner bell.” However,

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Brandon Scherff’s Biggest Buck

The biggest buck I ever took was a 7-pointer that would score in the high 130s or low 140s on Boone and Crockett. However, I've missed a lot of big deer with my bow. If I'm real honest and tell the truth, I still get buck fever. When a big buck is coming in, I get so nervous I hardly can pull my bow back. For some reason, when I get to full draw, my

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