However, they wouldn’t come into bow range. My guide, Cliff White, bugled and cow-called, and the elk would answer. The first morning we heard elk all around us but seemed to never be able to get them to come to us. As soon as the storm passed, we heard elk bugling all night long – a good wake-up call for me. I stayed up for half the night – although the storm only lasted for about an hour. The tent was under some big ponderosa pines. I was terrified the first night when a lightning rainstorm arrived. We slept in a sheepherder’s canvas tent in Arizona. He said that if I were to draw that unit, I’d, “Stand a real-good chance of taking an elk.” He told me I should put in to hunt Unit 3. One of the guys on staff was a cook who also guided for elk in Arizona.
I was a member of the Bear Archery Pro staff at that time and spent a lot of time with the guys on staff. Maybe by the sixth year, you’ll draw a tag.” However, I was lucky enough to get an elk tag the first year I put in for it. More than likely, you’ll have to put in for a tag in Arizona every year. I was told by most everyone I knew, “You won’t get a tag to hunt elk the first year you apply. My first elk hunt in the early 1990s in Arizona is my most memorable. (All artwork this week is courtesy of Dallen Lambson of Pocatello, Idaho, who’s won numerous awards, and has his artwork featured in Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s stores. Salter has learned that being a good turkey caller can make you a good elk hunter.
When he hears a turkey gobble, he wants to go to the tom and get as close as possible before taking him. Salter’s style of hunting is being aggressive. He’s also created turkey calls and sold them. Turkey – a title that speaks to his reputation of having won hundreds of turkey-calling contests and having had so-much success hunting gobblers.
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