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 camp
The outfitter bubble, the trailhead bubble, and the huge unhunted country in between
How archers wreck their own odds by tunnel-visioning on bugling instead of glassing
Spot-and-stalking a bedded bull, and why almost nobody has it in their toolkit
Why nearly every student skips ranging and marking the animal before the stalk
Style-based hunting: why we don't tell a fast hunter to slow down
The honest math. You can do everything right and still be wrong a third of the time
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