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. There exists in the hunting community a sort of “permit pressure,” where the idea of shooting a ...

On opening day of his first-ever elk hunt, Chase Parker tagged a giant 6x6 Roosevelt bull that is a pending Alaska record.

“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 ...

Dick Blossom took a cow elk last fall in his home state of Montana at the age of 101. Calvin Coolidge was in the White House when he was born, and the Great Depression and Dust Bowl were years in the ...

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 ...

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

Colorado is a hunting paradise. The state is home to 10 big game species that are found anywhere from the sprawling plains filled with sagebrush to the lush cottonwood river bottoms to the majestic ...

If you Google "oldest elk hunter," one of the names that pops up is Gordon Blossom, who killed an elk when he was 103. His ...

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 ...

Hunters had another successful elk season in Wisconsin in 2025-26, including the harvest of 15 elk. For the first time, cow ...

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 ...