Randy Newberg spent six seasons hunting elk, unsuccessfully. It wasn't until he changed his thinking and started asking himself, "What does an elk need today, and where do they need to be to fulfill those needs?" that he harvested his first elk. Randy's elk ecology system helped him become a more...

What is driving elk behavior today? How are they relating to their physical surroundings and the conditions of that day? These are the questions Randy Newberg asks himself on every elk hunt. Successfully answering these questions is the key to becoming a consistently successull elk hunter.

In the post rut and late season periods, calories become one of the dominant factors driving elk behavior. Where can they get the most calories, with the least effort, while staying safe? In this chapter, Randy takes you through how he identifies the types of feeding areas most likely to be utili...

What an elk eats on a given day is dependent on the time of year, the area of the country they are in, and what is safely accessible. Quality forage that is far from security cover is of little use to an elk hunter. In this chapter, Randy takes you through his thought process when it comes to fin...

Migratory elk present another challenge to the late season elk hunter. Cold and snow often dictates the elevation at which elk will be found. Using his knowledge of the environmental conditions that drive elk to lower elevations has helped Randy to fill more than one elk tag. In this chapter, he ...

When hunting elk, Randy often asks, "How has weather changed the landscape?" Whether it is hot or cold, windy or calm, elk are going to react to changing weather conditions. The savvy elk hunter understands how elk react to different weather conditions and uses this knowledge to put themselves in...

As hunting pressure increases, elk move to areas where they feel safe. Finding the areas where elk are able to escape from human intrusion becomes even more important as the season wears on. In this chapter, Randy covers the types of areas that bull elk in particular gravitate to in order to avoi...

Elk typically follow a predictable pattern between feeding and bedding areas. In this chapter, Randy takes you through his system for identifying feeding and bedding areas, and the travel routes between them.

During daylight hours, elk spend more time bedded than on their feet. Elk bed where they feel safe and comfortable. Elk use their nose, ears, and eyes to keep themselves safe, and they bed where they can utilize all these senses to ensure they make it through the day.

Time to put it all together. In this chapter, Randy takes you through utilizing the knowledge gained from the previous chapters in this course to develop a real-world hunting plan for your upcoming hunting season.

To tag an elk, you've first got to find an elk. The most successful elk hunters develop a step-by-step system for finding elk, a system that helps them identify what elk need and where they will go to fulfill those needs. In this chapter, Randy takes you though the questions he asks himself to co...

This chapter covers how elk ecology differs during the magical pre-rut and peak rut periods of the elk calendar. While the breeding period introduces another variable into the elk finding system, many principles remain the same. Here, Randy covers what drives cow elk behavior during the month of ...