A Close Encounter with a Bull Elk with Joelle Selk

Video: How to Score a Bull Elk

Scoring a bull elk is quite similar to scoring a deer but with some added complexity due to the sheer length of those much bigger antlers. The total score number will include the inches in the length of the main beams, length of the tines, the inside spread, and the volume of the antlers. And we'll take deductions for inconsistencies like G1 points that are different lengths. I'm an official scorer for the Boone & Crockett Club so I've built an...

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, well beyond a hundred elk began to stream out of two creases of the hillside in front of us. Mostly cows, calves, and spikes, with, notably, one...

Elk Hunter Gored to Death by Wounded Bull

A 66-year-old elk hunter in Oregon is dead after getting attacked by a bull he wounded with his bow. Mark David, who was archery hunting on private ground in northwest Oregon, arrowed a bull on Saturday evening. He was unable to recover the elk that night but returned with the landowner the following morning to continue the search. When the duo located the bull around 9:15 a.m., David tried to make a follow up shot on the still-living elk...