Seven years after the end of the Civil War, hunters killed a 500-pound elk near the Sierra Nevada’s Lake Tahoe, marking the near-final coda for a species on the edge of extinction. It’s time for the ...

Yellow Humpy, courtesy Bend Fly Shop. Seven days for a bull elk. That’s the promise of the general season West Cascade elk hunt in the Santiam, McKenzie, Indigo, Dixon, Evans Creek and Rogue units. In ...

Elk hunting is commonly perceived as a backcountry scenario where the hunter and elk are engaged in a one-on-one affair, and the only sounds to be heard are wild noises of the forest. If you believe ...

This story was originally published in the June 2005 issue of Outdoor Life. When I was 15, I set off on my own, going to work for a lumber company and living alone in a tent in the Montana woods for a ...

Seven years after the end of the Civil War, hunters killed a 500-pound elk near Lake Tahoe, marking the near-final coda for a species on the edge of extinction. It’s time for the majestic animal, now ...

All elk hunters dream of a screaming bull that charges across a meadow and into bow range, hot steam still flowing from his nostrils. After all, calling in a bugling bull (or even just getting a ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** My elk-hunting reasoning figured ...