Today on Gritty I am joined by my good friend Ryan Lampers, aka Stahelty Hunter,

and owner, host, and co-host of the Hunt Harvest Health podcast.

Ryan is a modest, quiet guy who kills mature old animals on public landhunts across the west.

Today on Gritty, Ryan shares some of his tactics for elk hunting.

I feel like Ryan is a treasure box of useful information just waiting to be opened.

Today on Gritty we pluck a few gold nuggets out of his treasure box,

and the information is worth its weight in gold.

You shot a Roosevelt, the sort of Roosevelt I would dream of.

So Phelps was telling me you like to use a really big branch.

Yeah, so tell me about that.

Similar to in how you would set up to make a call like you get on a knob,

you get up on a ridge where you can really throw some tones out there and get a response,

I do the same thing with breaking branches.

You know you get into these certain spots where you know that sounds going to carry

and a lot of times that's all it takes when there's another bowl that they expect to run into.

First they do the back and forth with the calling or the break, you know,

bust enough the tree and the thrashing.

And if that's not enough to intimidate the other bowl to go the other way,

what's the next step?

It's come in and show this guy how big my antlers are.

And so they give you that nice side view and you know that's where picking a fight really comes

in handy to get that side shot, get a double long or a heart shot.

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