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Sam Lungren
Sam Lungren is MeatEater's Supervising Editor and a former freelance writer/photographer, commercial fisherman, and editor of BHA's Backcountry Journal. Though originally from Whidbey Island, Washington, he's been in Montana for almost a decade and probably isn't leaving—except during steelhead season. Send him an email sam@themeateater.com or follow him @samlungrenmedia.
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- Anthropology (1)
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- Big Game (9)
- Blacktail (1)
- Conservation (74)
- Elk (4)
- Endangered Species (4)
- Environmental Issues (10)
- Firearms (2)
- Fishing (57)
- Fishing Gear (3)
- Fly (7)
- Foraging (1)
- Freshwater (20)
- Gear (10)
- Hunting (21)
- Hunting Gear (6)
- Ice Fishing (11)
- Mule Deer (1)
- Natural History (2)
- Policy & Legislation (19)
- Public Lands & Waters (22)
- Saltwater (10)
- Snook (1)
- Turkey (4)
- Waterfowl (1)
- Wildlife Management (15)
Recent Posts
Elk
How to Call Elk like Jason Phelps
Jason Phelps is quick to admit that you don’t need to sound like a verbatim elk to get one inside arrow range. He’s spent a lot of his life building tools for us to speak with the big tan-and-chocolate creatures, but he says a simple mastery of truck-cab bugling won’t prepare you well for actually...
Elk
4 Ways Elk Hunting Is Not Deer Hunting
“I was pinned down. I couldn’t move or he’d see or hear me,” I explained. “We were only 12 yards apart with a tree in between.”
Greg looked at me blankly.
“Why didn’t you just run in there and kill him?”
This was a long time ago, but it was a revelation in my elk hunting knowledge. Greg has been...
Elk
How to Kill a Bull Elk on Opening Day
The cow and calf must have thought we were sagebrush in the frail predawn light. We crouched low, motionless but completely exposed, as they sauntered on up out of the gulley not 12 yards away. We waited until they had passed before standing to see which way the rest of the herd was coming.
Suddenly...
Elk
How to Read Topo Maps to Find Elk
My buddies Todd and Ken came out from Washington to fill freezers with Montana’s highly available and affordable whitetail doe B tags. We’d punched a few of those permits before the guys found out that the next day, my last in camp, was also my last day to hunt elk for the season. They insisted we...
