Episode Details

Most elk hunters don't lose animals because they don't know enough. They lose them because they bugle in the middle of a meadow, creep at 800 yards, sprint at 200, and talk themselves out of the stalk halfway up the mountain. Cliff sits down with outfitter Cade Cole and Eric to break down what actually went wrong, and right, for the guys who came through the in-person Elk Hunting Masterclass in Wyoming this season.

This is the unfiltered debrief: pacing, careless vocalization, wind discipline, onX habits, and the trailhead bubble that leaves miles of glassable elk country untouched every September. Not theory. Every scenario in the course came from a hunt one of us blew.

The elk class discussed - https://pursuitwithcliff.com/elk-hunting-master-class/

Eric Wilson's Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/do-not-go-quietly-w-eric-wilson

In this episode:

• Why the biggest barrier to the course isn't experience, it's ego
• How five days of scenarios stack more reps than five years of hunting
• The pacing inversion: too slow at 800 yards, too fast inside 200
• Why guys bail halfway through a well-planned stalk, and the football parallel that explains it
• The trailhead bubble and the outfitter bubble, and the unhunted elk between them
• Why the overnight spike stalk works far more often than hunters believe
• What a Level 2 course would look like: spike camps and long stalks with no onX

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