 welcome all back to the channel y'all. It is time to do some elk hunting. I'm going to start this video off with a bottle. Elk hunting tradition, hunting tradition. You carry a kill bottle. Last year if you guys watched my elk series that I went to the woods with the born and raised guys and the hushed guys. Ended up tragically. Ended up uh not opening this bottle ever. So I got a message on here it says be calm settle in one two squeeze enjoy the ride lfg 2020 even signed it for myself like like i'm a big shot or something uh so if you guys have followed my channel and hunting um three years ago i went to the elk woods for the first time did not know what i was doing at all and i got on some elk never got close enough just had no idea um second year went with born and raised hush and guys uh they watched my videos basically saw that i didn't know what the heck i was doing helped me out a bunch and i learned a lot it was great hunt but just hunting public land um seven days in the woods finally got on our bull and uh ended up shooting it forward and the mistake i made and the reason i wrote that message on the bottle is when i stopped called the elk the elk was still moving i never even practiced that shot of following and then stopping and i never settled into my shot and so that was one of the things that the guys taught me was make sure to settle in when you stop an animal you're usually going to have a lot longer than what you think you know at least a few seconds maybe even five seconds to to settle in and get that shot off and make a good placement so that is the goal for this year but this is different this time uh because we've got a private land tag so this this was something i wanted to do to get experience and i'm hunting with my boys um outlaw mullet man uh guys i've hunted with before many times but we've never elk hunted together i'm not gonna lie to you it was pricey to to book this hunt but i wanted to do it to get the experience of bow hunting in the elk woods and get a lot of a lot of bugles get a lot of setups the more setups you do i mean you just learn so much out of each one and we are just getting set up right now getting the bows dialed in i'm about to shoot my broadheads uh at the target uh for the first time been been shooting field tips so let's see how they do what are we at 38 well all right here been in the woods for how many years together every year since like i don't know six seven years ago 2015 2016 okay something like that 38 i'm just gonna cut my 40 pin just to hear it well shoot one more just to be safe you can definitely hear that muzzy whizzing here we go well y'all it's started to rain so we got the rain gear um this is gonna be a little different than the public land hunts that i've done in the past where i'm basically packing in long ways camping in a tent uh at night just carrying everything in my backpack we're gonna ride out in buggies and i'm carrying a mid-sized pack hopefully gonna be packing out an elk on this trip uh with the packs and then once we come off the ridges using uh using buggies from there you have to have a guide uh to go out to go out with you they just don't let you go out on uh on private land and and go off by yourself i love doing that but i'm gonna be asking a ton of questions try and learn as much as i can we're gonna throw on the the boots and uh and do some tramping hopefully not get too wet and hopefully be able to fill in this entire thing for you guys without uh without the water getting in the way you know i'm ready to see one up close and redeem myself it's all about it's all about redemption having a good time and enjoying the ride so let's uh let's get out in the woods y'all start tramping around and looking for some help coming close just made it out here the rain is uh continuing it's like real foggy misty just want to show you guys just right off the bat getting out of the mule we're getting ready to walk in immediately see a huge wreck it's about my height it's awesome so me jared and mike all really spread out on this place so uh it's just gonna be me and the outfitter going together doing the walk and do a little stalking may not get it down the day but but we're gonna we're gonna see some activity out here and y'all day two of the hunt last night that last hour was the most incredible hour of elk hunting that i've ever had it was just bugle mania this cold front that came in has got these bulls charged up we just gotta we just got to get in a position where we can uh have a good wind and sneak around on some of these flatter areas where they were uh where they were herding up and uh just get on the right bull hopefully we'll get the right shot today and get one down all right y'all we are back at the buggy right now and uh we did hear a shot today so someone got one down and uh i think some of my boys are doing some bed stalking we just we came across some bulls that were bedded kept bumping them and i just couldn't get them to come in to to my calling they would kind of look and they get curious but they wouldn't come all the way in and i think at this point we're just kind of just making mud here trying them up you know getting educated so we're gonna take a break uh ride back get a quick bite to eat and then hopefully they're gonna be charged up going this afternoon get off their beds get in the mood you know what i'm saying