If I could fashion my childhood memories into a quilt, I’d sew in a bunch of red squares to memorialize some of my brightest days as a kid.¬

A red cotton T-shirt or flannel was my dad’s usual hunting shirt of choice. He’d pair it with wool pants and add a jacket and blaze orange to complete the woods-ready outfit. Back then, camo wasn’t really the trend and he seldom wore it.

The little known 35 Whelen approaches 375 H&H Magnum performance in a 30-06-size cartridge with less recoil than the 375 and surprisingly flat trajectory.

Public-land DIY archery elk hunting is taxing enough without knowing where to find elk. I find them by antler hunting in spring. You can too.

For me, elk scouting is a year-round activity, but spring is one of the most revealing times because it gives me a head-start on fall elk success.