These seven tips explain how to bowhunt elk successfully. Get information from calling strategies to playing the wind and shadowing the herd.

If you’re an elk hunter or plan to eventually hunt the great wapiti, here are some elk basics that cover the animal’s origins, body language and the rut.

Elk eat trees, shrubs and other plant-based foods. They're big fans of wild mushrooms and they love the licks. Licks, you say? Plus, any idea how many pounds of food an 800-pound elk eats in a day?

Do you know how many chambers an elk's stomach has? And what purpose does the "old cow" serve? These answers, along with eight others, can by found among our top 10 elk facts.

Another piece of Pennsylvania elk country is permanently protected and open to public access thanks to a collaborative effort by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Pennsylvania Game Commission

Following Bill Busbice’s guilty plea for poaching elk, Plano Synergy has ended all association with Busbice.

Hunters are, by nature, the perfect, amateur paleontologists. In Montana, an observant hunter finds more than he bargained for.

Pnuma Outdoors captures the sacred tradition of hunting through a father's eyes in its new holiday film.

Rare ice age elk antlers and skull sell for $28,000 in New Zealand auction house.

A search and rescue continued to get more and more complicated deep in the Oregon woods before a hunter was taken to a hospital via Life Flight.

You might think hunting elk in your home state would give you an advantage, but elk hunting can be challenging, regardless of where you are.

A migrating bull elk has become a fairly common sight around Upstate South Carolina despite being the first of its kind in the Palmetto State in 275 years.

One hunter finds himself within a few feet of a rut-crazed bull.

John Plute’s bull elk antlers held the world record for 30 years, scoring 442 3/8 on the Boone & Crockett scale and measuring as much as 51 inches.

Is a 429 6/8 net score good enough to set a world record? One Montana bowhunter surely hopes so.

The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department is making changes in elk depredation to help ranchers in the Black Hills region.

Didn’t draw any coveted tags this year? No problem, just read on.

Brucellosis can cause young pregnant cattle, as well as elk, to abort. It's believed the most infectious materials come from birthing fluids and tissue. So keeping cattle and elk separated at the time the elk calve is thought to be key to controlling the spread of the disease.

The Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the so-called “shoulder season'' guidelines Thursday that would allow hunting to start as early as August in approved areas, with a late season extending until February.

Solo hunters have been garnering headlines because of untimely deaths and injuries this fall in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.