“Bull coming in.” I sent that text to my hunting buddies on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023 at precisely 4:15 p.m., as we sat, separated by several hundred yards, on a north-facing meadow in the mountainous ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. There exists in the hunting community a sort of “permit pressure,” where the idea of shooting a ...

Experiences in the Rocky Mountains remind you that you’re only a heartbeat from heaven every day you spend in elk country.

For many Western states, September 1st marks the beginning of archery elk season. This time of year also coincides with the rut, when bulls bugle their heads off, roll around in the mud, and chase ...

It was the wrong morning for that buck to be in that spot. Even I could make that shot. The low-hanging fruit got picked.

Public land elk hunting is a real challenge, but success is sweet. For every American whitetail hunter, Western elk hunting is aspirational, calling to them the way Cooperstown calls to a Little ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Nathan Ellis grew up hunting for whitetail deer in Ohio, but when he got out of the military, it ...

The archery hunting season starts as usual today, on the last Saturday in August, but this year is anything but ordinary in one respect. For most of northeastern Oregon, the archery season for elk is ...

Most of the elk hunters in Pennsylvania shot an elk this past year, and there's good news on the horizon for next season. The Pennsylvania Game Commission awarded 178 elk licenses for the three ...

On Wednesday the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted 9-1 in favor of ending over-the-counter archery elk tags for nonresident hunters. The decision comes after extensive public input, ...

It’s a text I never expected to be able to send, mainly because I only had a day and a half remaining of a very long elk season, which had me wondering if we were going to get it done at all. Just a ...