We take more than our share of 'Pope and Young Record' Animals every year. Our guides, all excellent callers, specialize in guiding archers to trophy bulls. The reveille of bugling Bulls signals the beginning of archery season. The hunt is on.Ī Stockton Outfitters' archery hunt is just the ticket for an adrenaline addict. A loud shrill blasts mere yards from your tent, followed by another and another.

There is a chill in the air as your eyes open to the still darkness of a high mountain Montana morning.

Our lodge-based hunts combine the mobility and the flexibility to hunt the entirety of our permit areas. Our Rifle hunts are conducted from tent camps when the weather permits, but move to the warmth and comfort of the lodge as the heavy snows in the high country move the elk down to lower ground. Our Wise River base camp is nestled in the heart of the elk's wintering range, and let's us get close to our quarry by 4 WD and two feet. The ultimate game of chess has commenced in the dark timber on the bull's home court.

And you know he'll have found a bump of some sort to bed down, watching his back trail. About now, with the first bit of sunlight starting to stream through the trees, you know he's made his way back into the heavy timber somewhere near a third the way from the top of the ridge. You've seen the elk's bed in the meadow and you know that's where he laid up to chew his cud. It's been a long grueling hike to get back into the timbered ridge where you spotted that trophy bull.

Guided elk hunts