If you have never elk hunted, and you don't want to pick up another bow hunting addiction, don't bow hunt elk!  If however, you want some of the most exciting and challenging archery action, you have got to hunt elk with a bow.  There is something magical about a bull elk bugle, the quite call of a cow elk to her calf, and certainly the awesome spectacle of being the mountains.  In this section we will bring you articles about elk hunting.  We have bow hunted elk in Colorado, New Mexico and Montana, and are looking forward to other states as well.

So came along with us as we share our addiction of bowhunting elk!

Sparing Bulls

The dark timber made it difficult to see them, but the rattle of antler against antler unmistakably drew me closer to the sparring bulls. Straining my eyes against the dimness and creeping every closer the bulls materialized as if coming out of a fog. A hundred yards, maybe a bit more, and they weren’t paying any attention but to each other.

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Elk Down

Rick, the Hunting Manager for Buffalo Mountain Ranch, had helped me brainstorm some good location s for my elk hunt. One place really drew my attention. He told me that a big bull and a herd of cows were hanging around an open area in thick cover, where they would eat before bedding down in the middle of the morning. That sounded like a winner to me, so I put my name marker on the place of that particular blind, on the large satellite photo of the ranch on the wall in the lodge, and jumped into the Excursion for the trip to the blind. A short drive down some dirt roads put me on a road leading along the canyon rims. I pulled onto a feeder road and parked on a flat place just off a steep cliff, above two deep canyons. The blind I would be hunting was located only a hundred yards or so further east, just a hundred yards or so away from these vertical drops that led down into the brush-choked bottoms of the canyons on the north side of the ranch.

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