Elk Hunting

A season of bowhunting for elk often comes down to one magical morning. Here’s an elk hunting video telling the story of one of our elk hunts.

After three years of hard elk hunting and only coming home with tag soup, Cory Glauner, Founder of Outdoors International finally broke his dry spell. He had to lower his standards as things had changed in his hunting area, but we're sure it felt good to have some success. "Growing up, September was the month [...]

Unit 5B in Northern Arizona offers many hunting opportunities for the non-resident hunting. Easier to draw elk hunting and great black bear hunts.

Unit 22 AZ is located right in the middle of the Mogollon Rim Country of north central Arizona, and has good elk densities with good trophy quality.

Where is the best elk hunting in Arizona? …what every hunter who is interested in elk hunting in Arizona wants to know. Here are the Top 5 Units.

How many times have you told yourself, Next year we will go on that vacation or when the kids are grown, or the best when I retire I will have all the time and money in the world.  And just like last year, this year came and went and you didn’t pull the trigger on a dream critter.  For most of us we still go hunting but we don’t really ever get to “THE BUCKET LIST”

To qualify for the Super Slam of North American Big Game®, a hunter must have registered the legal taking of all 29 of the traditionally recognized species of big game animals native to North America.

Of the six sub species of elk in North America, there are three sub species of elk with hunt-able populations classified by the Boone and Crockett club. The American Elk, the Roosevelt Elk and the Tule Elk.

from the Hunt Backcountry Podcast Recently, Russ Meyer was interviewed on the Hunt Backcountry Podcast. Steve Speck from EXO Mountain Gear calls him "the most successful hunter I know." In this podcast they asked Russ how he has so been so consistently successful in his 30 years of bowhunting. There are some gems in this [...]

Bowhunting for elk is a tradition for the Outdoors International team, and this season was no exception… as this Idaho archery elk hunt video will prove.

Any hunter who hasn’t experienced hunting the elk rut just has too. Beg, borrow, or sell your things to make it happen. And for your first hunt or two, don’t get hung up on trophy quality.

So you just booked your first archery elk hunt and now you’re wondering what you need to do to be prepared for backcountry elk hunting.

Field judging elk really isn't that difficult if you use these simple tips. If you are hunting elk on your own and want to kill a good bull, you need to know how to score a bull in the field. Keep in mind that a typical American elk, Boone and Crockett requires a minimum of [...]

Apply for Wyoming Preference Points. 75% of the premier hunting tags in Wyoming go to those with the most Preference Points. If you want a quality Wyoming hunt, start building your points.

If budget, time, or physical condition is an issue for you, look to high fence hunt for your monster bull solution. 

"Teach your children to choose the right path, and when they are older, they will remain upon it" Proverbs 22:6 I’ll never forget the first time my son, Jess, heard an elk bugle in the wilds of our Idaho mountains. His eyes filled tears as he whispered “dad, that was awesome.” Within an hour of [...]

To have a successful elk hunt, you need to be prepared. Whether you’re using archery, a rifle or black powder, you need specialty gear for elk hunting. From scouting equipment to game bags, this early season elk hunting gear list has all of the gear you will need.

The intent of this post is to present the pros and cons of the “accumulate points, draw a tag, and then find an outfitter system” versus the “get a guaranteed tag along with your guided hunt system.”

From where I stood when I released the arrow his blood trail started just 7 feet away….

This is 99% of my hunting backpacking gear list. I like to stay light, taking nothing extra! The only thing that can vary slightly is maybe an extra base layer / long johns in very cold temps or if elk hunting I’ll have bugle tube, mouths reeds, etc with me. -Steve Speck

Trophy quality on ALL these Arizona elk hunts is VERY good, however many bulls will have broken antlers during the late season. Hunters can expect to see 370″ class bulls in the premier units and 340-350″ bulls on the “lesser” quality units. Bulls above 400″ are taken in Arizona every year.

I will admit that there are better tacticians and callers than myself, but I hold my own. Positioning, playing the wind, approach, not calling, calling aggressive, cow calling, bugling, and on and on…all these are critical when you are chasing love sick bull elk.