Elk

PC: Mike Eastman Great news from Wyoming! With elk populations on the verge of a veracious explosion, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has recently decided to be more aggressive with hunter management in an effort to quell the inevitable herd increase. The core of this effort revolves around the …

Both the Wyoming House and Senate overwhelmingly voted to reduce the legal age to hunt big game in Wyoming to 11 if the youth in question will turn 12 before the end of the calendar year in which the hunt occurs. For example, if one of my children wanted to …

Region 1 comprises the northwest part of the state from the Canadian border south to Missoula and the Flathead Indian Reservation. Elk and deer numbers have been on the decline in most 100 districts largely due to the number of predators. DIY hunting is the most difficult here compared to …

Go elk hunting with the Eastmans’ TagHub 2020 elk hunt winner. Eastmans’ TagHub member Jared Boyd joins Ike Eastman for his very first elk hunt in Colorado. Jared’s Missouri whitetail skills are put to work when he jumps at the chance to take a nice trophy bull at ONLY 60 …

Building a strategy to keep your elk hunting skills sharp while you wait out that coveted elk tag. My first bull was a spike by two taken at the hand of my PSE bow…bloody damn luck at the rightful age of 14. It was the first week of September high …

Bow hunting public land elk takes grit! Eastmans’ Elevated podcast host Brian Barney stays persistent to get it done on a Montana elk hunt. Brian end’s up self-filming his DIY bow kill on this web episode of Eastmans’ Hunting TV.

The elk herd in Wyoming continues to be very stable and healthy. Although the hunter success survey results for the 2020 hunting season have yet to be released I fully expect to see little change in unit ratings versus last year. The elk hunt season in Wyoming seemed to be …

  Hoof rot or TAHD has been around for more than 30 years in the Pacific Northwest but has spread and really become worse in the past 15 years. Unfortunately, we still don’t know what causes the disease. Over the last few years, I have looked into possible causes and …

In October of 2019 we brought you an update on the CONTROVERSIAL FEED GROUND ISSUE in western Wyoming. Our Wyoming Game & Fish Department is still working through the process relating to their feed ground sites and have been conducting public meetings (click HERE to watch these recordings and get …

A lot of big changes are coming in Utah for 2021. The biggest news is the cap on the general any-bull elk permits. The last several years they have been capped at 15,000 licenses. After several recommendations by conservation groups and meetings with the state elk committee, the decision has …