Elk: 2008 Calls for Monster Bulls
July 15, 2008
Elk: 2008 Calls for Monster Bulls 2007 was great…could 2008 be even better? By Steve Chappell As I write this article, it’s early April and the Arizona draw results for elk were released about ten days ago. The excitement is high right now as I visit with hunters and friends that were fortunate enough to [...]
Wrongway and Ocho
January 26, 2008
New #5 Typical Archery Elk from Arizona 2007 400 4/8 net P&Y by Jim Mullins As our hunting party sat in the shade of a small bush, we gazed through the small openings to our trophy a thousand yards further. This was indeed a trophy beyond comparison; we knew we were hunting one of the [...]
Wyatt Bull
January 24, 2008
411 6/8 Gross, 393 1/8 Net Non-typical Archery Elk Behind the Re-creations by Joey Wyatt It was 2006, and my hunting partner, Brad Sears, and I had just put in for the bull elk draw. I was up fishing in Alaska when the draw results were released. Brad gave me a call and let me [...]
The Hunt of a Lifetime
January 24, 2008
A great 7×7 typical elk from Utah by Jim Giles My quest for a huge bull elk started back in 2002 when a couple of my good friends bought me a landowner tag on the San Juan Elk Ridge, limited-entry unit in Utah for helping them with a land development project they were working on. [...]
The Hunt That Almost Wasn’t
January 16, 2008
434 1/8 Gross, 423 0/8 Net B&C Non-typical Elk Utah Rifle State Record 2007 by Darrell Snedeger There is an old cliché that says, “Good things come to he who waits.” I must admit that there were times in my life that I thought the wait was actually going to kill me! There were even [...]
The Elk of 2007
January 15, 2008
What State Produced the Biggest Bulls from 2007? by David King In the last couple of years, some tremendous animals have been taken by hunters all across the country. It seems that every year there is another whitetail that is pushing the 300-inch mark, continually altering the record book standings. This past year was no [...]
Elk: The Herd Bull
November 14, 2007
Knowing his habits during your hunt. Steve Chappell Hello fellow elk fanatics! At the time of this writing, the Arizona archery and early bull hunts have just ended and oh what fun they were. Despite some unpredictable weather and high winds, we still managed to have a fantastic season here in Arizona. As is the [...]
ShadowCamo Story: Cortisone Bull
November 14, 2007
The Cortisone Bull Keith Johnson Year after year it was the same; the disappointment of the dreaded “Unsuccessful” letters from the Division of Wildlife. I figured that 2007 would not be any different. I didn’t know how wrong I was. From April 26th on, I trained hard by running, hiking, using the elliptical – anything [...]
Elk: Hunting Elk in the Northwest
October 20, 2007
Hunting Elk of the Northwest How to hunt in the thick timber by Rockie Jacobsen I don’t know what is more aggravating, a bugling bull at four yards in brush so thick that there is no shot possible or a bull in the wide open country, scoring 350-plus, that won’t come anywhere near you. I [...]
Two for Two: 407 Bull Elk From the San Carlos
October 20, 2007
Two For Two by Gabriel Jackson The draw results had just been released when I received a call from Woody, my sub-guide, about the elk lottery on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Woody was so excited I could barely understand what he was saying. Woody and I had both drawn tags for two of the [...]
