A switch had flipped. The mountain was suddenly thundering with the screams of bugling bulls, and I was right in the middle of it. Young in my stick-and-string elk tenure, I had no idea what to do. So ...

Fred Mercer shot a massive bull elk on a snow mountain in Montana. At the time, it was the second biggest elk ever taken by a hunter. I woke up before daylight, aware that it was very cold in the tent ...

Creeping into archery range on a bugling bull elk takes skill, stealth, and nerve—and it's one bow hunting's most sought-after experiences. But what if the bull elk you're stalking scores over 400 ...

Clarence Brown with his giant bull elk. When my 18-year-old son Dale and I left camp before dawn that November morning we knew we were headed for trouble. The good elk country is sever­al miles uphill ...

DURING THE MIDDLE of the night something awakened me, and for a moment I thought I was back in Tanganyika listening to the dawn roaring of a pride of lions. But in seconds my consciousness spun me ...

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. (WSAW) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources needs the public’s help to gather information on the illegal killing of a bull elk in Jackson County. DNR staff received ...

LOGAN, W.Va. — “We’re not getting any younger,” laughed Greg Johnson as he looked at his brother-in-law Ronnie Barnette. Both from Logan, where Ronnie still lives, Greg now makes his home in ...

KALISPELL - Cheyenne Moore knew the elk was big, but she didn't know how big. "My hands were shaking, and I could hardly stand up because my legs were shaking," said the 13-year-old from Kalispell. "I ...

A group of ice climbers helped wildlife officials rescue an elk after they found it tangled in a climbing rope on a Colorado mountain. Colorado Parks and Wildlife Southwest Region on X, formerly known ...

It took George Oko Jr. only three years to be drawn for a Pennsylvania bull elk tag, and just 30 minutes to harvest the trophy of a lifetime. Oko, who is 15 and resides in Bear Creek, was one of 27 ...

This story, “Elk by Error,” originally ran in the June 1947 issue of Outdoor Life. CAUTIOUSLY I shifted my eyes. A thousand feet under my boots I could see white water whipping a jig-saw canyon. The ...