In this Episode of The Hunt Talk Podcast (Ep 10) Randy meets up with John Barklow, big game product manager at Sitka Gear.  While Corey volunteers for a Hunt of a Lifetime, the topics discussed include John's Top 5 elk hunting mistakes, merino v. synthetics, garment engineers, field testing for Special Operators, baking the moisture from you clothes, windchilling, insulation layers, evaporation effects, performance clothing comforts, John's archery setup, and a host of other topics related to elk hunting and gear.
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EP10: Elk Mistakes and Gear Talk with Sitka's John Barklow

All elk, all the time, and only elk. Hunting elk is the aspirational pinnacle for most American hunters. Corey Jacobsen, 10-time World Elk Calling Champion, and Randy Newberg, long-time public land hunting advocate, have combined to lower the hurdles for aspiring elk hunters and provide insight from their combined decades of elk hunting mistakes that will give useful information to elk hunters of all experience levels. Brought to you by Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and partners Sitka Gear, GOHUNT, MTN OPS, and OutdoorClass.

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Corey and Randy host Dustin Diefenderfer of MTN TOUGH. Topics covered include Dustin's hunting passions, archery elk hunting, the "packout from hell," cardio versus strength, and the obvious benefits of physical preparation for elk hunting, yet goes far deeper into the mental aspects of hunting and health. Randy explains being an adult-onset fitness adopter, fitness for the busy traveler, and a mix of hunting issues through the lens of age, hunting, and mental challenges.
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Mentally Tough Elk Hunters with MTN TOUGH | Episode 127

In this episode (#126) of Elk Talk Podcast, Corey and Randy are taking up the discussion after a weekend with 600 of RMEF's volunteers. Topics include shed antler seasons and issues, winter ranges off-limits, access to elk, growing private land elk populations, shrinking public land elk numbers, one-size-fits-all really fits none, Wyoming and Nevada elk management examples, elk advocates where there are no elk, new age of fire cycles, and a ton of other topics related to putting more elk in the hills and creating more access to elk.
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Working For More Elk, Habitat, and Access | Episode 126

Corey and Randy share the mic with Charlie Decker, one of four co-founders of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Recorded at the 40th Anniversary of RMEF, the topics covered include how it all started, the early failures, rough times, near bankruptcy, strain on marriages, perseverance, doing what you say you'll do, amazing volunteers, seeing a dream come to fruition, all told in Charlie's hilarious manner and sense of humor.
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RMEF Co-Founder Charlie Decker, American Treasure | Episode 125

Corey and Randy explore many off-season topics related to elk hunting information, various state deadlines, money generated by point schemes, deflating your points, the future of OTC tags, changes to point systems and point creep, slanting the table to well-heeled hunters, Wyoming setting the bar for non-resident elk fees, population explosion in Rocky Mountain states, the folly of point systems, correlation between technology and success rates and opportunity, and many other tangents important to elk hunting.
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Our Crystal Ball Projections for Elk Hunting | Episode 124

Randy and Corey follow up on a listener email where a Colorado Wildlife Commissioner claimed that State Trusteeship of Wildlife is legal fiction. In addition to updates on the deadlines for MT, CO, and UT, topics covered include qualification to be a wildlife trustee, do we want a Federal wildlife system, the laws/cases/Constitutional basis for our current state-based wildlife systems, Trustees ignoring their duties, how we got the the current systems we have, and many other topics that impact how wildlife gets managed and how opportunity gets allocated.
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EP10: Elk Mistakes and Gear Talk with Sitka's John Barklow

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