Woodsmanship and Skill: Finding Roosevelt Elk by Sign, Sound, and Terrain
The Born And Raised Audio Experience
KODY KELLOM
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast episode, Matt and Trent discuss building hunters through skill and craft, focusing on woodsmanship as a learned "puzzle" of understanding animal behavior, terrain, and sign. They emphasize starting with fundamentals—food, water, shelter—then using tools like OnX to locate clear cuts/units, plan routes, and mark rubs, wallows, trails, and notes to build an experience-based map. They describe practical methods for Roosevelt elk: covering ground by truck/bike, glassing for fresh rubs, bugling every 200 yards to locate elk, listening for stick pops, and learning to judge freshness of tracks, scat, and scent. They compare Roosevelt vs Rocky Mountain elk behavior, stress constant wind-checking, and highlight mindset: don't overthink or talk yourself out of clues, accept the effort, and treat each attempt as learning, illustrated by a story of following cows that led to a close encounter with a large bull.
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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 All right. All right. All right. |
| 0:21.6 | We've got to go. |
| 0:38.0 | Anyway, Matt, give me a topic. |
| 0:39.9 | Give me a topic that we're starting to choose topics now as far as trying to stay a little bit on track, |
| 0:45.4 | but go wherever the conversation leads. |
| 0:48.2 | Anyway, go for it, Matt. |
| 0:49.4 | We have a whole list of topics that we can cover, which is very unusual for us. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm glad you proposed that. |
| 1:00.7 | Which is why our topics have been all over the place, right? |
| 1:04.3 | But, you know, topical. |
| 1:06.6 | We've gotten some good feedback around them, especially around like the Christian aspects. |
| 1:11.6 | And yes, we want to make sure that stays a big part of it. |
| 1:15.3 | And we'll roll it in, right? |
| 1:16.8 | Make sure that stays the front and center like it should be. |
| 1:19.7 | But we've been, we've had a few subjects now that really haven't been hunting focused for a while. |
| 1:25.5 | And this podcast does not need to be right, |
| 1:28.4 | all about hunting. |
| 1:29.6 | This podcast is about hunters, yes, |
| 1:33.0 | but there's more delights for hunters that hunting. |
| 1:36.5 | Yeah, 100% I believe. |
| 1:38.0 | And too, |
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