Prep Report – February 2011

When one season ends another begins. With the 2010 seasons behind us, it’s time to start preparing for the 2011 seasons – don’t allow it to creep up on you! Making that extra effort now will pay off greatly, both physically and mentally, when the time comes.
Elk are in shape and you should be as [...]

Donnie’s Bivy Hunt Gear List

Here is a list of gear I would have on my back for a three day bivy hunt. I prefer the tent over a bivosac mainly for weather issues. If a storm comes in and rains for a period of time I like to be able to have a waterproof shelter for myself and my [...]

Bivy Hunt – Trial Run

With elk season just a few weeks away, now’s a great time to get all your gear together and put it to the test on a trial run! It’s especially important to use any of that new gear you have purchased since last season. Nothing’s worse than getting into your favorite spot opening weekend only to find out that the [...]

Hit the Hills for Elk Sheds!

With April halfway over, now is the time to get out in the field and find some artifacts left behind from all those bulls you heard last fall but never had the opportunity to lay your eyes on. By this time, many elk have dropped their headgear in order to start the growing process once [...]

Idaho Hat Trick

hat trick n. Sports
1. Three goals scored by one player in one game, as in ice hockey.
2. Three wickets taken in cricket by a bowler in three consecutive balls.
3. Three consecutive wins or outstanding accomplishments by the same individual, such as a jockey in horse racing.
4. Three big game animals taken by thee hunters in [...]

Hunter’s first elk hunting season

Although we weren’t successful in harvesting an elk for my 12-year old son, Hunter, it was a great time and a great learning/bonding experience. All totaled, we spent twelve nights in the back of the suburban over deer and elk season. Now, each weekend, he asks if we can just drive to the mountains and spend [...]

Get That Elk Call In Your Mouth!

For those of you that haven’t already done so, now is the time to throw your elk calls into your truck and start practicing during your commute. Last thing you want to do is show up on the mountain having prepared all your other elk hunting skills (shooting your bow, physical conditioning, scouting and mentally [...]

Donnie’s First Strike…Opening Weekend Elk

With Corey’s opening morning success out of the way, we found ourselves in a different location two days later looking for a bull for me to harvest. We hiked 3 miles into a basin where we had located two nice bulls previously, but found nothing that morning. We hiked back to the logging road we [...]

Corey’s 2008 Opening Morning Idaho Elk

Opening morning of our 2008 Idaho hunt found me flustered and panicked not to forget anything, although I had already double and triple checked to make sure I had everything ready when we started up the trail at 5:30AM. We had walked 1/2 mile up the trail and I just had that feeling like I [...]