Entries Tagged Elk

On a recent elk hunt, Mark Kayser had a nerve-wrecking experience packing out a big bull elk while a bear tried to steal his harvest.

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.

Follow along as Bauserman completes the twelfth day of his elk hunting adventure on private land in New Mexico.

Montana recently rejected a plan to keep elk that are within a designated brucellosis surveillance area into contact with other groups from outside the area.

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

Complaints by outfitters and hunters over predators impact on elk have prompted Montana officials to triple gray wolf harvest.

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.

Authorities say a horse believed to have been killed by wolves in rural Wallowa County was actually gored by a bull elk.

The DNR hopes to bring elk from neighboring Kentucky to restore West Virginia's herd within the next couple of years. West Virginia's last native elk was killed around 1875.

There are times when leaving the calls in your pack and sneaking in close is your best option. These tips from elk spot-and-stalk experts will help you formulate your own elk strategy this fall.

Skyler Willis shot a trophy 6-point bull elk with his bow on the Zumwalt Prairie in the Chesnimnus Wildlife Management Unit. Willis did not have a valid elk tag and had been trespassing when he retrieved the bull elk.