What Elk Eat with Luke Schultz

[Jaden Bales]

We just published a fresh episode for you elk guys with our friend and biologist @Bull_n_heat all about what elk eat! This was a fun one that will help a lot of folks narrow down their focus on what kind of country to look for elk in.

Of course, in typical Rokcast fashion, we side-tracked into mule deer talk, but it was also a helpful contrast to explain what elk eat versus deer. We hope you guys enjoyed this one!

https://www.rokslide.com/what-do-elk-eat-elk/

Also, we've got a thread going to keep the conversation rolling all about what plants elk eat. You can check it out and chat with Luke here:

Thread 'Plants Elk hunters should know'

Mar 3, 2026

This thread goes hand in glove with a podcast recording that Jaden and Luke did in March 2026 (here). Hopefully this pictorial is helpful for giving visuals of the plants discussed there, but definitely go check it out for a bunch of background info on when and why elk will use these plants. There are some great tidbits in a related post about mule deer food (https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/plants-every-mule-deer-hunter-should-know.395040/) that would have a ton of applicability for elk. In particular, look at the Fire-associated plants. The purpose of this post is to familiarize...

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[Xperimental]

Very cool, Congrats.