ELK Hunts

GENERAL INFORMATION

All elk hunts are either a (5) or (7) day hunt in the Bridger Teton Forest and wilderness area of the famous Hoback Canyon.

During your hunt, you will stay in our full-service hunting lodge part of the week and in our Bear Creek wilderness camp the remainder of the week. This allows for hunting of both the high country as well as the mid-range regions of the hunt unit.

We begin your adventure at the hunting lodge located in Bondurant, Wyoming. The lodge is fully equipped with comfortable beds, hot showers, pool table, fuse ball table, darts, big screen television and more! During the portion of your trip at the wilderness camp you will start at the transition camp near the trail head. At this location you will receive an orientation on riding our horses and given an idea of what to expect as we ride into the Bear Creek Camp.

All of your gear will be placed on pack horses and we will begin an approximately two hour horse ride through some of the most beautiful country Wyoming has to offer. Once we arrive in camp you will meet the guides and staff and be shown your wall tent home for the week. Each tent is equipped with a wood stove to make our guest comfortable during colder weather. You will also be shown our cook tent, where you will be fed three wonderful meals a day, prepared by our western camp cook.

 All hunts are fair chase conducted on public lands in which we are permitted to operate guiding and outfitting services on.

Our elk hunting area (Area 84) contains thousands of acres of high country alpine land where there are good numbers of resident elk. The majority of bulls will be in the 280-300 class, but there are a few bulls harvested each season in the 320-340 categories. Late season there are large numbers of cows, small rag horned bulls, large five point bulls and small six point bulls to be found migrating to the feed grounds.

We see the majority of our large bulls early season. We recommend an early season archery hunt in September for the best odds at getting a trophy bull.  

We have one guide for every two hunters unless you are archery hunting, where we do one on one hunts. We access the hunt areas either by foot or horseback.  

We use the spot and stalk method of hunting big bulls by finding them with powerful spotting scopes from high vantage points, then formulating a game plan for a stalk. Most shots will be 150 yards plus and each hunter should arrive having practiced for long distance shots. Any .27-.30 caliber rifle will suffice.

In a typical day we may look over several bulls looking for a monarch worthy of harvest. Not all bulls are going to be record book quality, but many are great representations of the forest bull species.

You will be served a brown bag style lunch during the day while hunting and a wonderful hot meal for breakfast and dinner each day and night at our comfortable and cozy western style camp and lodge. Our cooks like to get creative in the woods so you never know what they might dream up to tempt your taste buds. And of course…we always keep the coffee hot!

All of our guides are fun to hunt with and are very knowledgeable of the hunt area. Many can’t wait to get in the mountains and blow on that bugle for some up close and personal elk time.

Our guides will field-dress; cape and care for your animal after harvest and deliver you’re animal to a local meat processor and taxidermist. However, you must make arrangements with each business for deposits they may require and shipping details. Our website has information about local taxidermists and meat processors that you can make pre-hunting arrangements with.

Our archery hunts during the pre-rut and rut begin September 1st and continue until September 25th. This is a great time of year, with typically warmer weather and cool mornings. It’s a wonderful chance to hear the bugle of the elk and get up close and personal with a rutting bull. All archery hunts are one guide to one hunter.

Our rifle hunts begin September 26th and run through October 31st. If the weather cooperates this can be a very exciting time to be hunting elk. We only take 6-8 hunters per week so book early for the best selection in hunting times.

HOW TO APPLY FOR A LICENSE IN THE
WYOMING GAME AND FISH DRAWING

We are licensed to guide and outfit in the following area:

You MUST apply on your Wyoming Game and Fish Department application for one of the above hunt areas/type before we can provide outfitting services to you.

Applications can be found on the WY Game and Fish Department website. There is a link to this website on our site and can be found in the “non-resident” section of the site. We are also happy to mail you the application and we will fill out the hunt areas and type for you. However, the fastest and easiest way to apply for your license is on-line on the Wyoming Game and Fish Department website. The on-line process is very user friendly and takes only a few minutes to complete.

Elk licenses in Wyoming come in various forms: general and limited quota. Before you can hunt, you must successfully draw a license in the WY Game and Fish Department drawing.

You MUST apply for an elk license between January 1st and January 31st in order to be placed in the drawing.

You need to apply for the “SPECIAL” license, which costs slightly more than a “REGULAR” license, but increases your odds of drawing a license. A “SPECIAL” elk license is $943 as of 2007. Remember the area you need to apply for is “General” to hunt a bull.   

COST OF HUNT

The cost of our services for a (5) day hunt is:

The cost of our services for a five (7) day hunt is:

Hunt includes all lodging, meals, transportation to and from the Jackson Hole Wyoming International Airport, as well as delivery of your meat to a processor and delivery of your cape and horns to a taxidermist.

Whether you book a 5 day or 7 day hunt, the time traveling into and out of the camp is part of the hunt. There are no additional days allotted for the 2 hour trip into and out of camp.

It DOES NOT include the cost of processing/ shipping your meat or the cost of your taxidermy work.

This is a great hunt that gets you into some beautiful back country of Wyoming. And as always we will work hard to make your trip a memory to last a life time!

To book a trip, please go to the “payment/ refund” page for details.
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