Elk Hunting Skill & Craft: Confidence, Gear Prep, Glassing, and Team Communication
The Born And Raised Audio Experience
KODY KELLOM
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Trent and Matt continue their multi-part "skill and craft" hunting series, reflecting on woodsmanship, learning through failure, and the hard work of elk hunting. They discuss how confidence affects shooting, including experiences with target panic and a dangerous bow failure that created lasting doubt, emphasizing practice and equipment checks before season and after travel due to elevation changes. They outline a practical glassing method: quickly check close cover and perimeters, scan distant areas, then systematically work back through a unit, and stress the importance of quickly landmarking and communicating an animal's location to partners. They frame elk hunting as a team sport where shared "comms" and defined roles (like shooter/spotter) improve success, and they describe stalking and calling strategy: pin locations, consider wind/time, wait for bedding, avoid obstacles that cause hang-ups, and reposition rather than forcing a stalled bull. They close with plans for future guests and broader topics beyond hunting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the born and raised audio experience presented by Onyx |
| 0:18.0 | The times are you changing we gotta go Presented by Onyx We are changing |
| 0:21.0 | We got to go |
| 0:23.6 | Oh my, my, my |
| 0:27.4 | We've grown so... |
| 0:29.6 | We are, we are, yeah, skill and craft. |
| 0:32.9 | You know, we've got kind of an inadvertently multi-part series going on here |
| 0:37.4 | Because we've got this list of topics. |
| 0:40.5 | And we're looking at the list right now, they're like sub-topics, right? |
| 0:45.1 | As a part of this and there's probably 10 of them. |
| 0:48.5 | And I think we got through two last week, which is good. |
| 0:51.5 | They're juicy topics, right? So deep dogs. We talked about |
| 0:57.7 | woodsmanship. We got a bit, you know, for sure. Well, we haven't got into so far. I mean, |
| 1:04.8 | I think last week, we spent most of the time on like, how do I find it elk? What am I looking for? |
| 1:12.0 | Like, where do I start? |
| 1:14.2 | You know, I talked about the, some of the elements of using the eyes versus the |
| 1:19.9 | definitely talked about the ears with the calls, using your feet, using bikes, using trucks, |
| 1:26.3 | paying attention to the evidence once you get there, |
| 1:30.2 | trying to find the evidence first and knowing what to look for and then trusting your God. |
| 1:34.3 | That was kind of the woodsmanship piece, right? |
| 1:36.6 | And you're just going to follow what you know instead of getting over one or even what you don't know, |
| 1:43.7 | go learning by just doing it. |
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