Peak Rut Elk Strategies; September 15-21 | Episode 153

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Wilderness, Science, How To, Sports, Nature, Education

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 56 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 15-21, what we define as the start of the Peak Rut Season, accounting for moon phase (new moon), even more hunting pressure, location of bulls in relation to cows with older bulls now controlling the herds, best calling tactics for bulls at this time of the season, how to use water as a tool, and many other ideas to consider at you hunt bulls during this Peak Rut Season 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 I've got an elk
0:38.9	building is like 120 yards away what do I do first off the thought would never cross my mind
0:43.7	when an elk to be 120 yards away to call anybody on a cell phone all elk all the time only oh
0:50.8	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
1:12.2	there's no BS and no lying no faking it with us did we hit the record but i forgot to hit the
1:18.6	record button if you want to know something about out cunning this probably isn't podcast to listen
1:24.9	to should we give them a list of all the other podcasts where they might learn some?
1:36.4	Corey, good afternoon.
1:38.5	Hi, Randy.
1:39.4	How are you?
1:41.0	Oh, man.
1:42.0	It is mid-September, and elk are bugling.
1:46.5	The peak rut's about to kick in.
1:47.9	I couldn't be any better.
1:49.6	Really?
1:50.3	So in this series that we're doing, we're now doing September 15th through the 21st.
1:57.4	And I got on my phone here, I have the Elk 101 article you wrote and I'm trying to see as I read this
2:08.1	could you be any more excited in 2025? I mean if if you were trying to hide your excitement for the third week of the month,
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