Episode Details

I guided an archery elk hunt last week and it had everything. A shooter bull at 25 yards on the first night that didn't work out. Slow days where bulls ignored every call. A last-night shot under 20 yards on a bull that was found three days later, 1,300 yards away, with a bear on top of him.

This is an uncut coffee with Cliff recap. We get into early rut bull behavior in the first half of September, why you need to practice shooting from the edges of your setup radius, and how one blown opportunity can wreck the rest of a hunt if you let it. Then the hard part: how my own brain convinced me I was looking at fletchings when it was the broadhead on the exit, tracking a single lung bull in flat country, and why rutting bulls push wounded bulls farther than you'd expect.

In this episode:

Early rut behavior: spikes acting like herd bulls, big bulls roaming solo
Why your hunter couldn't draw on a bull at 25 yards (and the fix)
Resetting after a blown opportunity so it doesn't plague your hunt
Why guides are hesitant to celebrate any archery hit
Losing blood in flat terrain, and when to back out overnight
How angles and bone shrink elk vitals

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