Call it a formula for cow elk hunting success. It goes like this: the gross calories consumed by cow elk, minus the calories spent to find nutrition, equals net calories and therefore, where to find that cow elk. As a longtime accountant and numbers guy, Randy Newberg looks at the five caloric factors that determine when and where cow elk go to feed. If you know that information, you have a much greater chance of successfully finding them. And you can’t hunt them, if you don’t know where they are, right?