How to hunt Elk
How to HUNT ELK (DIY Public Land Bull)
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you just killed a giant river you did it
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let's go see my prize he's huge hey guys
so that was just a glimpse into our
first trip to out-of-state elk hunting
in Wyoming the great state of Wyoming
and Trevor was totally clutch made an
amazing shot and killed that bull and
not only that bull but we ended up
tagging out on five Bulls
it was way crazier than we could have
ever imagined
and it was one of those trips it was it
was really groundbreaking for us we we
went out of our comfort zone we went to
a brand new place
and had an amazing trip and so we're
doing a video series on just what we've
learned over the years and our failures
and how you guys can go out and do that
too so here's video 1 of this six-part
series
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setting before we thought it was kind of
commemorative
is that even a good word for it
commemorate the land of the free to
commemorate yes a commemorative I was
gonna yeah yeah anyway we're back in the
uncut studio it's not really an uncut
but we're we're excited to announce
we're doing a six-part video series
everything DIY elk hunting and what it
is how to do it and we're gonna start
out by just talking about us honestly
and the barriers that we had to break
down in order to actually go outside of
our comfort zones that I can outlie it
from start to finish of what to do I
mean what to plan for the years but
before all the way to bone and an elk
and like like kind of that eight is the
thing that we've learned over the years
hopefully the mistakes that we've made
can kind of help cut some of those years
off and some of those days off time in
the field for you guys to get out there
and do it we talked about land of the
free it's public land it's
over-the-counter anyone can go out there
and do that we're trying to like further
those details that we talked about or
what you've seen in land of the free and
here we go so we have it like I said
it's six part video series that we're
going to be dropping today yeah today
the fifth and so on so every other day
through this next week and a half you're
gonna get six videos it's gonna be
awesome and sixth a quick overview so
you can kind of see what what we're
gonna entail video number one that we're
talking about today is barriers to hunt
elk and how to pick a state or what
state to go out video number two is what
kind of hunt do you want so how to pick
a unit and then what kind of style that
hunt is gonna be in kind of the basis of
if you're gonna be a backpack hunt
you're gonna be a Basecamp drop camp all
those kind of things all the way to the
luxurious Lodge food every day right so
one way like during this whole series
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going this fall I'm still trying to
figure out an area you can go along or
if you're planning for next year and
your first-ever elk hunt there you go
reader number three finding the area you
want to hunt specific location and east
Gauteng kind of kicked us into doing
this whole thing is our tags just came
out and it turns out we didn't draw
anything in the state of oregon didn't
draw a tag so we wanted to give
brief overview of what we do it when
it's panic mode we didn't draw any tags
now we're going over the counter so
we're gonna like put all that out there
and show you exactly what steps that we
go through to to make out-of-state
hunting happen or you know in state and
yeah if you're a first time elk hunter
video number four is going to be talking
about gear for the hunt and depending on
what kind of hunting style things that
you may want to have things that you
probably don't need to have and we
talked about some video number one's
kind of the barriers to elk hunting
one of them's mental and a lot of people
think that they have to have all this
gear to go do those things over the
course of 25 years we've been doing it
we've learned a lot that you don't have
to have so we're gonna try to trim that
down number five it's gonna be the boots
on the ground this is gonna be we're
gonna actually go out and film some
stuff of what you need to look for when
you're doing tactics for calling when
you're doing tactics for scouting for
elk and the preseason when you're doing
anything in the woods that when you're
out there that you say okay this looks
like an elk II place I'm gonna
definitely come here stuff that you need
to look for even when you're out there
on them kind of outline that game plan
of okay you're encountering this your
first time in the elk woods what do you
do how do you do it how do you make when
do you adjust how do you make changes
while you're there and last but not last
but not least it's gonna be the tagged
out so you've killed an elk right this
is our one of our biggest biggest things
that we talk about a lot is the
preparation and care of meat and that is
I mean we do all these all great things
and we get to go out and we get to go
have fun and al-khaimah at the end of
the day all that meat comes home to the
family and that's what feeds us for a
year straight so this is gonna be a big
one we're gonna show a bunch of
different things we get a lot of
questions on meat care and how long can
you let it hang what do you need to do
there so we're gonna we're gonna we're
gonna go all all those topics so that's
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how long as I go it's July 4th to July
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July 4th to the 15th ok video numero uno
probably the one thing that we talk
about the most are just the barriers the
mental barriers it is to think about
going on an elk hunt or a big animal the
remote they're located in usually big
country so I mean there's a lot of
things that go into it that you're just
like the fear of unknown so we kind of
want to break it down into two types of
hunters people that have hunted elk
maybe locally maybe it's in the local
coast range here in Oregon or you live
in Montana you put an elk but you're
thinking man there's got to be some
other stuff outside of this state to go
check out and comfort zone maybe and
comfort zone yeah and then the other one
is going to be first time elk hunters
that are either picking up a bow hunting
in state or making the trek out west for
the grand adventure yeah and that's I
mean it's a it's a huge undertaking and
don't think it's not one that we
ourselves haven't been through I think a
lot of people think all day hunting
every single year they hunt out of state
they've done this they're you know
they're veterans at this it's still to
us it's still a barrier that we have to
overcome and especially like we are
providing content for you guys to watch
we don't want to fail all right yeah
it's like we have these tools at our
hands that we use like go hunt and a lot
of different stuff to where we and
hammer it down into certain places and
we'll talk about that and then in later
segments but it's the mental barriers
that when now of Technology I would say
and let's let's take it back let's go
back 15 years ago when the internet
wasn't as readily available when there
wasn't all this all this information out
there it would be I'm not kidding you to
come from and I'm just going to throw
out Wisconsin because I was over there
turkey hunting and it was relatively
flat relatively just you know little
rolling hills to drive out west to go to
like
at 10,500 feet and see this mountain
with snow still on the top of it and
saying I'm gonna go over the top of that
and go hunt elk tread I couldn't imagine
yeah I couldn't imagine so it's these
kind of mental barriers that with all
this technology and all these useful
tools that we have now that it makes the
learning curve so much easier yep and
with that I think the number one barrier
is fear of failure some you know that in
my opinion here's let's define failure
in my opinion personally fear failure
feeling is if you do not go like if you
want to go do this and you don't go
because you think that that you're
you're not gonna kill a bull or any of
that that's the number one so get over
that hump of let's plan this out let's
figure it out how we can make it happen
and what you will learn in that whole
time is is multitude above what you plan
on and you're in your mind and in the
back your mind oh I hate I was gonna
fail there's a chance that I could do
that you will learn so much about not
just hunting and elk and stuff but you
will learn about yourself I promise you
the amount of stories that we've heard
especially this last season after watch
land of the free one and went and did it
there's not been a single one that's
been like oh I wish I wouldn't have done
that everyone it's just it's a trip
they're gonna make every year or every
other year trying to make happens so
just so to give us give you guys just a
little bit of background on our I guess
barrier that we broke down we started in
2007 hunting as a group we had a bunch
of guys we had Thai we had Trevor Steve
anyway we had all these met five guys
and so and we'd hunt all the time same
spots yep same spots every year
roosevelt hunting we'd hunt the same
units we not the same our boss saying
gates ride the same road yep
bugle from the same go down the ridge
people from the same spot if the elk
don't call back down there we go on this
side of the ridge so we got in the same
same mood to where okay what you know it
would be because we would call each
other what are we huntin ight and
we have nicknames for where we hide we
just go there that that whole thing went
on from 2007 we didn't even think about
going out of state until 2012 yes when
we made that leap so there was quite a
few used years there that I mean we're
talking about breaking down barriers it
was a fearful thing for yeah we still
lived in the box we had the comfort zone
and it was like yep we got this we can
go find bowls if we're not there we know
they're there and so that fear of
unknown when 2012 we drew a wyoming
general elk tag it was like we're doing
this and if it wasn't for Steve leading
the charge in the research and you know
talking through Maps searching on X and
getting kind of figured out where we
need to go we I don't know I don't know
I've no idea no idea hats off to Steve
on that but we went and did it and we
were able to tag out on Bulls killed
five and Wyoming it was live in like
seven days yeah it was pretty incredible
it was crazy and that was like okay we
drove 1,200 miles I still remember I
drove 12 miles my buddy Chris was were
with me we rode in on this gated Road
and woke up to a herd of elk running
through our camp and I'm like this is
incredible
doesn't happen like does not happen back
home doesn't know right there was the
success of that trip and then it just
snowballed from there
and that unknown feeling and we overcame
just in that first day and I think you
know to anyone out there I just
encourage you to just go do it
oh yeah that's exactly go hunt yep go
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yeah we talked about go hunt quite a bit
and it's just like they are a huge tool
that we use and it's a neat thing to go
on in the offseason and be able to get
on the computer and just click down okay
let's research this unit let's see what
the bull Cal ratios are let's uh let's
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you can't be for free yeah no other
topic in the bear
years that we talk about success rate
you know ELQ numbers success rate most
states bowhunting average success is ten
percent so one out of ten guys kills an
elk and so don't think that if you go
and you do not kill an elk that it
wasn't successful the amount of things
that we've talked about you learn in
that period of time you expand your
knowledge base you're experienced when
you come back next year you're armed but
there was a lot of guys that email them
that killed there's a lot of gap on
their very first trip a lot of guys a
lot of guys and ones that didn't they
are so jacked I mean I get I filled a
bunch of emails about this they are so
excited they didn't care about killing
one yeah I'm just like it was the time
of their life you know they didn't kill
so that's the biggest thing like don't
get so hung up on numbers of success
rates population numbers you know the
biggest thing is looking for the
opportunity and we'll break that down in
in the state side of it oh how would
state and how those tag systems work but
I said don't don't let the numbers hold
you up okay guys topic number two of
today's video it's a big one it's it's
it's gonna be the one that I think it's
gonna maybe open a lot of eyes yep I'm
hoping it will anyway it's time and
money time and money budgeting time and
money and this is another huge barrier
that a lot of people even if they're
back east even from here they think it
costs so much money to go out of state
it's unobtainable for me and and it's
the same way for us yeah we had no idea
how much it was gonna cost until we got
diving into it and then see what we can
actually get it down to go ahead what do
you need to don't need to say what do I
think the biggest thing people you know
in life everything money is a driver and
if you save four dollars a day for a
year so start right now if you're
planning on elk hunting next year stick
four dollars away every day fourteen
hundred sixty bucks will get you a tag
it will get you where you need to go get
you some food and you can make this
thing happen so I would I mean a safe
budget living pretty good $1500 and
you're gonna get your first elk expiry
fifteen hundred bucks so that's quitting
Starbucks for a year
yep Starbucks probably more than that
yeah they might have you don't want a
really good outcome yeah oh yeah four
bucks a day guys and 1,500 bucks so we
broke it down we have some graphs and
everything here that we're gonna throw
up on the screen but so graphs
you're gonna make a graph oh so so yeah
so it's honestly I'm gonna cover this
it's your tag which every state's a
little bit different but it's gonna be
seven to nine hundred bucks right
somewhere yeah depending on what state
that you choose your gas money to get
there and your food yeah and especially
if you take take a buddy or you go and
three guys just let that you know split
the food up split the gas up the economy
of scales right there starts happening
so start saving that four dollars a day
whether you need to there's there's
several apps out there you can start
shoving money account to the side and
obviously it's time off work to get time
off work time off work yeah and
everybody you know I'm sure 99% of the
people watching this right now yeah you
have a nine-to-five that you're going
yeah guys well that's fine and Danny
1,500 bucks but how do I get off work
how do I convince my wife that I really
need this I don't you know the barriers
right yep barriers for breaking down
barriers that's once you once you like
realize that it's not that much money to
do this it I think it opens up a lot of
doors yep and then you know everyone's
gonna say well that doesn't include the
gear you can go elk hunting with the
stuff that you currently own I mean if
it's we've we've met guys up on top of
the mountain 10,000 feet oh yeah oh yeah
just an old old pair of boots one guy
had tennis shoes on
they stayed the whole season see not
just not just like they're in it for a
week they stayed the whole season at
10,000 like ten thousand eight hundred
feet add a little stand sport dome tent
you know it's Walmart dome tent then
like they had their kind of Boy Scout
backpacks on has all they had they
didn't have any any of the gear like
that we're saying that you don't have to
have all the the elitist gear yeah where
we're sitting it's kind of tough for us
to say that yeah honestly but we also
have the years experience like Korea my
first first backpack trip
was with my dad stands for little
aluminum frame with a fanny pack
literally lashed to it and that was it
with a sleeping bag you you can get away
with a lot of stuff so biggest thing is
just getting that tag making the trip
out there and going for it
so we kind of break it there's three
types of hunts that you we could look
like
we are gonna basically put this around
the DIY but let you be known to there's
you know if you want to circumvent some
of those barriers have a little more
luxury yeah exactly you can do a drop
camp you know basically gas tax food
drop camp meat processing you're looking
about 3,000 to 3,500 bucks we kind of
looked at some of the different states
and outfitter rates and then you could
do a full deluxe guided flying out there
meat transport car rental and you're
looking what I'm working - yeah that
that's a fully guided and everything
with the tip you're about 10,000 baht in
grant yeah and that there's some
variance there if you want to do a
wilderness to a lodge all that yeah
that's out there we just that's not who
we are what we've done we are gonna
touch more back on the DIY the $1,500 a
year plan so the biggest tape take away
and the in the barrier of time and money
ten days ten day trip a week off work
even so you can do it seven but yeah I
mean whatever you can get there as I
would say I mean I would say okay
so someone coming out west if I want to
experience a full outcomes seven days
you could yet you could be oh yeah yeah
yeah yeah so think about those things if
it's Lee if you get a day if you can
take a Friday off and a Monday off
extend that a day travel you got three
buddies you're doing round-robin driving
we've done that multiple times driving
through the night 24 hours like when we
hiked Colorado a lot of the times it's a
closer drive for you guys that are out
east to come to Colorado than it is for
us to get there it's 2020 hard 26 that
one drive yeah so um forget it's
straight through but four bucks a day
stop drinking your coffee or whatever
kind of treat that's like oh yeah when I
have this every day you cut that out
save yourself four bucks a day
we're not doing life plans yes we're not
good I didn't say like hey good shoe and
that's six but you know whatever it
can't you know I don't know okay okay
four bucks a day save it go l-fatiha
okay we're done with this we're done
with the studio side of things so we are
going to do the research so you guys
don't have to so go over here I'm gonna
show you guys we're headed to the office
we're gonna head back to the office see
all those numbers on there we're back to
the office and we're gonna talk about
each say break it down from state to
state what it's going to cost you so
it'll kind of give you the reference of
okay do I want to go Oregon do I want to
go do I have the extra 200 bucks for
Montana it's the most one of the most
expensive States for a tagged Oregon and
I think conelrad and I think is the two
cheapest something like that so anyway
it's we're gonna break it down for you
and and so you won't have to do the
research for this next year all right
guys we're gonna break down the five
states that we fill in land of the free
and we move spots we got tired sitting
down a little change of pace so we're
gonna first start off with Oregon what
it costs to go hunt Oregon resident
right here our resident if you're a
resident you're going to pay eighty one
dollars and fifty cents if you are from
Oregon and thirty-eight dollars that's
where they get you that's where being
from the western United States helps a
little bit in your own homes back cut
your backyard because it is way cheaper
yep so one thing that we would actually
need to talk about real quick it's a
little bit of the states and how the
tags worked so it's kind of broke down
as OTC unlimited OTC limited quantities
general draw or a limited general so
Oregon is a OTC basically statewide
there's a handful of units that are
drawing units and the OTC is unlimited
so you do need to purchase your tag
before the season opens so this year
August 24th there is a way around that
with the state if you show up during
season by a tag you have to go to a
district office so Monday through Friday
sign an affidavit
you hunted but if you come to war again
it's over the counter unlimited just by
your tag before you get here
okay got that know that Idaho Idaho is
an over-the-counter limited quota
it's basically a quota base there's a
all the tags go into one pool general
rifle all that once the non-resident
quota is filled and tag sales stopped
last year they actually sold out during
season and archery season which is first
time in a while and it's broke up into
zones so it's basically a two or three
unit type zone area so you're not you
can't just buy an Idaho tag and hunt the
whole state it's just in those little
zones residents are going to pay what
$52.50 non-resident altogether 590 150
so not as bad as Oregon
yep so like I said this is gonna be an
OTC limited quota sell out they sell out
you can buy those tags during season if
you do show up if they are available so
that's how we rolled in last year and
the 32.0 bought West's tag and went
hunting the same day so there you go
Montana a limited general draw they have
a total quota for non-residents you do
have to apply ahead of time I think that
date deadline is March 15th so if you're
planning for a 2020 hunt pay attention
for that
it's not my guarantee you can put in and
not draw this last year I know quite a
few people that did not draw montane or
general tso resident pretty cheap state
to hunt it as a resident it is it's a
walk-in fifty seven dollars as a
non-resident not so much nine hundred
and twenty nine dollars one thing that
we did not cover here and you can get
this information off go hunt season
dates ring here Oregon
your August 24th and it's a 30-day
season so I'm in somewhere September
23rd I think somewhere in there yeah
this year
Idaho every year it opens on August 30th
goes through September 30th so it
doesn't matter if it's a Monday Tuesday
over again is the last Saturday in
August and runs 30 days and that changes
every year as far as date one correct
yeah Montana is a six-week season which
is the longest in the West that season
is going to open the first Saturday in
September so this year it opens on
September 7th and then runs six weeks
Wow so runs into October mid-october Oh
during that everyone you saw us up there
October 1st through the 10th and then
join the Onix guys there so that's the
best opportunity the also this tag is
good during rifle season as well so you
can make a trip back gonna be exclusive
archery I know there's some late I think
cow hunts possibly with a bow as well on
that tag Wyoming Wyoming the great state
of Wyoming if you live in Wyoming you
are going to pay 62 bucks to go shoot an
elk 62 and if you're not living in
Wyoming but you want to go there you're
gonna pay a 90 150 so so this is where
it breaks so 790 150 for non-resident
just the regular if you want
go for the special draw and you can talk
about that here to say it's gonna be
twelve hundred and eighty-three dollars
so that's gonna break your budget of the
four dollars a day on the coffee but
Wyoming they open up September first and
go through September thirtieth that tag
is also good for general rifle seasons
some of the unit's open up October 1st
or October 15th so that's I dunno some
guys that have hunted archery the last
five days and then picked up a gun on
October 1st and hunted that is an
opportunity in Wyoming good state it is
a draw though and right now it's been
running about two year drop so you can
open up and buy points July 1st through
October 31st it's $50 a year to get a
point so if you're thinking Wyoming in
20 21 22 beyond buy a point now so
Colorado last but not least Colorado
Colorado
8450 if you live there and 743 50 so
this is same as Oregon kind of same as
Oregon you can roll it but you can roll
into that state at any point in time
during season pick up a tag go hunt so
Colorado's great opportunities got the
most elk in the western United States
right so I know that this is a kind of a
go to the one thing that I would say
hunting pressure wise this is the
highest pressure that I've seen of all
these states you know Montana and
Wyoming being a general with quotas and
same with Idaho those are the highest so
Wyoming does have another thing that's
they call it the special it's it's it's
it's not cheap but it puts you're
basically paying a little bit more money
to put yourself in a smaller tool to
draw especially
gonna run you 1378 1367 fifty sixty
seventy yak like you've done it put in
for that before yeah
trans got this one pretty well dial back
that so that budget kind of breaks the
banks of the four dollars you're gonna
pretty much live off Top Ramen and
hitchhike to the state but it's great
hunting lower number of people generally
especially in archery the one I would
say about Wyoming that is a cool deal a
lot of the residents don't so much Belle
hunt because that tag is good for rifle
and bow they know it doesn't seem to be
as high pressure during that season
saying some of Montana so I think those
two things with being a any weapon
during those particular seasons are good
States to look at so Wyoming you gotta
pay to play the special generally has
been a one-point draw in the Special
Drawing to get yourself I'm doing a
GoFundMe page you'll link it in the
description below square that exact
exact time every single you here at
least Colorado Colorado
8450 if you live there seven hundred and
forty three fifty same is Oregon you can
roll it but you can't roll into that
state at any point in time during season
pick up attack go hunt got the most elk
in the western United States right so I
know that this is a kind of a go to the
one thing that I would say hunting
pressure wise this is the highest
pressure that I have seen of all these
states you know a Montana and Wyoming
being a general with quotas and sing
with Idaho those are the highest and
we'll jump into going on real quick in
this last leg and just kind of show you
some of the hundred numbers from states
and units this is a great bowl in Oregon
this is monster monster but nonetheless
this was killed man free 2.0 this was
one Casey came out
and kind of broke those barriers down
hunting Roosevelt's what we talked about
a lot of we'd hit on is breaking down
the barriers trying something new get
outside of your comfort zone it was
difficult for us and man we have been so
blessed with what we've experienced
since that we did it
ya know it's so except for your unknown
go do it
save your 4 bucks a day plan a hunt you
can do it every year you can do it every
other year whatever it is get a couple
buddies together set a goal commit to it
that's our biggest thing so time and
money save that time we kind of broke it
down when it's going to talk to you per
state find the state that suits you
we'll talk about that and further on so
this is video one that's a rap video
number two is going to be now that we
have a state picked out you hopefully
narrow that down for you guys we're
going to talk about Colorado in this
series because we're trying something
new this area so what type of hunt and
then a specific what unit so go to go
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push through the crossroads and I hit
the ground
they're from picks out the big afraid
