The Nuances Most Elk Hunters NEVER Figure Out

Three of us sat down after four days in the field. Cade, Cliff and Ryan (a student who just came off the elk class) and got into the small stuff that actually separates hunters who kill from hunters who don't. Not tactics you can read in an article. The judgment calls. When to move fast, when to sit down and wait, how much country you're actually willing to cross, and how much of your own hunting style you should be fighting versus leaning into.Ryan's primarily an archer with real backcountry experience and that's most of what makes this one worth listening to. Two guys who've spent careers guiding, one guy who hunts the way most of you hunt, working through the same problems from three different angles.Schedule for next year's classes: https://pursuitwithcliff.com/elk-hunting-master-class/In this episode:Why roughly 70% of the elk I kill guiding come from long, ugly stalks not from campThe outfitter bubble, the trailhead bubble, and the huge unhunted country in betweenHow archers wreck their own odds by tunnel-visioning on bugling instead of glassingSpot-and-stalking a bedded bull, and why almost nobody has it in their toolkitWhy nearly every student skips ranging and marking the animal before the stalkStyle-based hunting: why we don't tell a fast hunter to slow downThe honest math. You can do everything right and still be wrong a third of the time ---FOLLOW CLIFFYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/CliffGrayInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/Cliffgry/Facebook - https://facebook.com/PursuitWithCliffPursuit With Cliff Podcasthttps://pursuitwithcliff.com/interviews-and-podcasts/Cliff's Hunt Planning and Strategy Membership https://pursuitwithcliff.com/membership/Hunt. Fish. Spear.  (Experiences, Courses and Seminars) https://pursuitwithcliff.com/ExperiencesMerchhttps://pursuitwithcliff.com/shop/SUBSCRIBE TO CLIFF'S NEWSLETTER:https://PursuitWithCliff.com/#Newsletter