Game Changer

[Wapiti1]

Learning to remember how each encounter went, and how it ended. Did I say the wrong thing? Did the shot just never come? I hunt solo a lot, so this was an important skill I had to learn.

Analyzing each interaction and summarizing what I thought the elk was thinking, and what I was trying to say. That really helped me increase my success at getting a bull in range. It's hard, for me at least, to deconstruct that stressful, high energy, encounter and learn from it. You get so caught up in the moment, you don't remember what happened.

Jeremy

 

[cnelk]

^^^ I kept a log book for years. Documented each and every encounter - location, time of day, weather, elk behavior, etc.

Reading back thru it is pretty funny now

 

[Beendare]

My buddy Dennis has kept a log book of every hunting day in the woods for 5 or 6 decades....since he was young.

He mostly whitetail hunts....but he has a pile of notebooks.

 

[trophyhill]

Actually there's a little twist to Corey's methodology......."Leading or encouraging the elk to go or do what they really want to go or do......even before they know they want to go there or do that". It's like leading them into checkmate.......because they really do want to go there.

Every elk I've killed.....I had to put em in checkmate