Peak Estrus Elk Strategies; September 22-30 | Episode 154

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Elk Talk Podcast, Randy interviews Corey to cover the most effective tactics for the 2025 archery season. This podcast covers September 22-30, what we define as the Peak Estrus Season that is a continuation of the Peak Rut. We account for the moon phase (new moon to half moon), the influence fall equinox has on rutting activity, difficulty of pulling herd bulls from their cows, best tactics for bulls at this time of the season, the opportunity at mature satellite bulls, and many other ideas to consider at you hunt bulls during this Peak Estrus period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Elk Talk podcast is brought to you by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation,
0:04.6	ensuring the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat, and our hunting heritage.
0:10.0	To become a member, go to rmef.org.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Elk Talk podcast with Randy Newberg and Corey Jacobson, presented by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
0:30.6	The goal is what little you and I know about elk hunting we share with people.
0:37.8	I've got an elk building is like 120 yards away. What do I do? First off, the thought would
0:42.8	never cross my mind when an elk would be 120 yards away to call anybody on a cell phone.
0:48.4	All elk? All the time. Only elk? Well, it's us having conversation, so we usually go down some rabbit holes. If you hunt with Cory Jacobson, you will find the landscape is full of rabbit holes. We're just going to make this up as we go. And you look at it like, oh, that's a target-rich environment. But if you're trying to single one out, a solo target there is much easier to go into than a big group. We record everything, so there's no BS and no lying, no faking it with us.
1:15.6	Did we hit the record button?
1:17.6	I forgot to hit the record button.
1:19.6	If you want to know something about Elkhunning, this probably isn't a podcast to listen to.
1:25.6	Should we give them a list of all the other podcasts where they might learn something?
1:36.3	Well, Corey, everybody who's archery elk hunting right now,
1:41.5	they either saved the best for last or they just didn't have vacation time or they've just been out all month and they haven't put it all together.
1:53.8	That's right. But this is kind of, I mean, yeah, the third week this year was the, that's the one I picked.
2:02.2	That's my, that was the one I put the eggs in, in that one basket.
2:07.2	But second week wasn't a bad choice this year either.
2:11.0	And fourth week, which we're going to talk about today, is not too shabby.
2:16.7	So if you've waited to the end and you've sat there listening to everybody and
2:21.3	you've scrolled through social media and seen all these else, everybody's killing and you've got
2:25.3	the FOMO, the fear of missing out and everything, this is your week and it's all going to be okay.
2:31.3	Yeah, well, we're going to start out September 22nd. Yesterday was the full moon.
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