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

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[Xperimental]

Very cool, Congrats.