Corey’s Top 5 Elk Hunting Tips

A few of the Elk101.com Pro Staff guys have mentioned in recent articles that it is difficult to boil elk hunting down into one topic that has been the biggest factor in their elk hunting successes. As I sat here and tried to come up with my own list of the Top 5 Elk Hunting Tips, [...]

Elk Hunting Webisodes are Live!

Webisode #1 is up on the website:
http://elk101.com/webisodes/
Follow along as Elk101.com Pro Staff member, Russ Meyer, and his good friends Ken Hanson and Blake Prince, chase big bulls on a DIY archery hunt in the backcountry of central Idaho! Feel free to discuss the hunt or ask any questions in the comments section at the bottom [...]

Her First Hunt

Our daughter was born on July 2nd , 2007. As some of you are already thinking, or at least I was, “how in the world am I going to be able to put the scouting time in that I need to during July and early August?” Luckily, I never skipped a beat and spent the [...]

“The Rut”

The first hunt of the 2001 archery elk season left me kicking rocks for five miles back to the trailhead. The morning bugle-fest was incredible and continued into the early afternoon. I couldn’t recall another opening day quite so full of the rut. Two herd bulls would not leave each other alone. They were very [...]

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 [...]

Lucky Thirteen

  2007 archery elk season had started off with a bang.  Opening day found my brother Lance and I, at a favorite “low country” hunting spot.  The evening before while scouting, we had some cows cross the road in front of us. Since we had poor luck in having a bull return our bugles, it made [...]

RMEF Letter to Defenders of Wildlife regarding Wolves

If you’re an elk hunter, you’ve got to read this! On March 30th, Defenders of Wildlife sent a letter to RMEF CEO David Allen, claiming he had made erroneous statements about them to the press. Read their letter, then read his reply. Elk hunters need to show their support for the RMEF for their willingness [...]

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 [...]

Two Days – Two Bulls

Fighting soreness from the previous day’s brutal hike with my father, I reluctantly rolled out of my cot and shut off the alarm.  It was 3:00 A.M. and we had a few hours of hiking to get to our desired hunting location.  After a protein bar and a bottle of water for breakfast, my father and I [...]

An Idaho Elk Hunt to Remember

“What the heck was wrong with shooting him when he was 400 yards from the road?” my hunting partner, David Burdette, asked as he gasped for oxygen, some 2 ½ miles up the mountain. Our morning hunt had started three hours earlier as we were getting our packs together at the truck, and finally concluded [...]

Defining Moments

  As elk hunters most of us can think back to a moment, scenario, or hunt that changed you or your approach to hunting.  Some of us have been influenced by our fathers, uncles, friends or just a unique circumstance. We all have visions of who we are, and who we want to be as hunters, [...]

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 [...]

“Never Again” – Idaho Archery Elk Hunt

“Never again”. These were the words running through my head after 17 hours of hiking - and we still had a minimum of 2 hours to the truck.  I guess you could say I am a very slow learner since I can remember at least once a year for the past six years saying that very [...]

My 2008 Arizona Elk Mount

Well, after months of deliberating and research, I decided on the form I wanted to use to mount my 390″ bull from Arizona. Now the only issue was to decide what taxidermist I wanted to use. After visiting with several taxidermists and checking out their work, I made the decision…my Dad, Rockie Jacobsen. This was [...]

“Better Late Than Never” – Dirk Durham

“Ah yes, 2009. This season was going to be the best ever! I finally have these elk figured out, their secrets have been exposed to me over my last 20years of bugling big bulls…….”
These were the thoughts of a naive elk hunter (me). If I have learned anything in the last 20 years, it has [...]

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