Tag: Spot and stalk

To The Trees: How To Hunt Elk In Thick Timber

Talking bull: How to get started elk calling

One of the unfortunate realities of elk hunting is that hunter success rates stand at around 15%.They’re a tough animal to hunt and an even tougher animal to kill. Hunters need to take advantage ofevery opportunity they can. Most think of hunting elk during rifle season as long days of glassingwide open fields, snow covered

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Short Gun Love: The Pleasures of Hunting with a Carbine

It seems that no matter where I turn, be it an article in a magazine, a discussion in a bar, or the gun rack in my local sports shop, I just can’t get away from long range hunting rifles. It’s a sweeping trend that is taking the hunting world by storm. Every hunter I run

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Dead Silent: How To Hunt Quiet Elk

Whenever we think of elk hunting during the rut, we think of monstrous, screaming bulls, bugling and chuckling as they canter after cows and chase off all challengers to their reign as kings of the mountain. We fantasize about calling them in, about standing just behind a tree and bugling to them as a big

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Stalking turkey: Go get that gobbler

Stalking turkey: Sometimes you just have to go get that gobbler

Nothing announces the coming of spring more jubilantly than the thunderous gobble of a Tom turkey. And few things in the hunting world make a hunter’s heart pound harder with anticipation than hearing that sound coming closer as they sit with their back against a tree, calling back to one. But as the season wears

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Practice still-hunting to become a better hunter

Practice still hunting to become a better hunter

The forest is a quiet place. Within this tree-shaded realm the only sounds heard are gentle birdsong and the rattle of the wind as it moves through branches. It is a place of peace and calm, yet life and death here is constantly held in a delicate balance between predator and prey. The hunter moves

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The mighty mule deer: Hunting the king of deer

Getting after the king of deer, the mighty mule deer

If you gave your average hunter a pencil and asked them to draw their perfect trophy buck, nine times out of 10 they’re going to draw a mule deer buck. Embodying all the rugged mysticism and unrestricted spirit of the American West, mule deer just have a way of standing out in the deer world.

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