Sounding determined and confident, a large bull elk, most likely weighing 1,200 pounds or more, bellowed and bugled right in front of me. His back is arched and head held upward, mouth pursed in a ...

A bull elk, they said, had become ensnared in a climbing ... likely from antler jabs during the rutting season. “He wasn’t the biggest elk I’ve seen, but he was doing well,” she said.

By the end of September, the elk are in the middle to final stages of the mating period known as the rut. Alleman’s biggest, dominate bull sports a muscular physique during the rut from ...

It’s a bold strategy, but apparently, it pays off. This approach helps the bull gather a group of females, or cows, into a harem for mating season. Elk mating season, also called rut, takes place ...

Ronnie Barnette of Logan killed a bull which scored 359 typical, and turned out to be the largest typical bull killed in the state during 2023 with archery equipment.