Video of the Day: The Linguists (Elk Hunting)

Video of the Day: Best Laid Plans (CO Mule Deer and Nevada Elk Adventure)

It’s late summer and that means one thing for me – some serious hunting season fever. Fortunately, for those of us really itching for some adventure, a handful of really great hunting films have all just recently dropped online. While most of these films are outside of the whitetail world, if you don’t get a kick out of these, you likely don’t have a pulse. I’m going to post all of these films up here on Wired To Hunt over the coming days, so...

Elk Hunting: The Lost Art of the Timber Sneak

Across the West, rifle seasons for elk will be opening soon. For me, that means it is time for some timber sneaking. Timber sneaking, or slowly still hunting through stands of lodgepole pines, is my favorite way to hunt pressured elk during rifle season. In the last dozen years, I’ve killed ten elk in dense stands of dark timber. Every one of them was shot with a rifle at ranges under one hundred yards. I shot one bull at less than twenty yards...

Elk Hunting Knowledge

Elk are movers. Be it from hunting pressure or weather, great numbers of them will cover great distances with mind boggling speed. But an elk’s toughness goes beyond its ability to climb thousand-feet inclines in times measured in seconds rather than minutes. When hunters hear these massive animals coming through a forest of lodgepole pine, they often draw comparisons to the sound of trains. And there’s no other animal, save perhaps moose, that...