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The Arizona Hunting Club & Outdoor Adventure Club invites you to attend an Arizona Elk Hunting Workshop for Unit 6A.
Part one of the Arizona Elk Hunting Workshop consists of learning material from an
Elk Hunting Workbook, which to teaches students about the Elk game species, Elk feeding
habit, Elk watering habits, the habitat Elk like to live in, Elk travel patterns
as well as Elk hunting strategies, tactics and methodologies to successfully harvest a trophy Elk.
One important portion of the Elk workshop will show students how to use a
topographic map and satellite aerial photos in order to predict where the highest
concentration of Elk might be located within a given hunt unit.
All students will need to bring a U.S. Forest Quadrangle Topographic map of the hunt, which
can be purchased for around $10 at any map store.
Part two of Arizona Elk Hunting Workshop includes taking students on an
actual Elk scouting trip. Students will be armed with a digital camera and GPS unit
and will spend an entire weekend scouting the areas predicted in class to hold large concentrations
of Elk based on sources of food, water, bedding areas and known travel patterns.
The purpose of the Elk Scouting Field Trip is to find good
places to hunt Elk the following week during the actual Elk hunting season.
The scouting field trip is important because it teaches students how to adjust their hunting
plans in the field based on animal signs such as droppings, grazed eating areas, fresh
Elk tracks and visual sightings of Elk herds.
Each day the class will be split up into small groups and sent into the field to scout
during the morning and evening. At the end of the day every team will share their
findings, their digital pictures and their GPS waypoints of important areas where Elk
or fresh signs of Elk were found. Students will learn to appreciate the fact that
working together as a team is the best way to find the animals prior to the hunt.
The Arizona Elk Hunting Workshop will be held in Gilbert on Wednesday night,
October 10th at 7:00 pm. For the Elk Scouting Field Trip, students will depart from
Gilbert on Friday, October 12th at 7:00 pm. Students have the option of meeting us at the campsite
or carpooling with the group to Unit 6A.
The Arizona Elk Hunting Workshop and Elk Scouting Field Trip will cover the following topics:
Arizona Hunting Workbook Table of Contents:
Introduction
- Understanding the Energy Dynamics of Wildlife
- Arizona Game & Fish Wildlife Hunt Unit Managers
- Arizona Game & Fish Hunting Unit Scouting Reports
- Profiling Big Game Animals and Their Preferred Habitats
- Profiling Hunters and Their Predictable Hunting Patterns
- Hunting with Topographic Map Software
- Hunting with Satellite Aerial Images
- Hunting with 3D Virtual Maps that Show Terrain Features
- Using a Global Positioning System (GPS) Unit
- Planning a Scouting Trip Complete with Predefined GPS Routes
- Recording Fresh Sign with Digital Cameras and GPS Waypoints
- Building a Hunting Journal for Future Generations of Hunters
- What to Scout for around Watering Holes
- What to Scout for around Feeding Areas
- What to Scout for around Bedding Areas
- What to Scout for around Game Trails
- What to Scout for around Dirt Roads
- Using Premium Optics to See Animals Before They See You
- Building a Food Buffet for Big Game Animals
- Using Game Cameras to Scout 24x7
- Building a Ground Blind
- Installing a Tree Stand
- Understanding Prevailing Wind, Landscape Features and Heat Thermals
- Understanding Sound Barriers that Isolate Human Activity
- Using Scents to Mask Human Smells
- Using Camouflage to Hide Human Profiles
- Building a Big Game Funnel/Choke Point
- Using Game Calls to Lure in Big Game Animals
- Selecting the Perfect Weapon for Hunting
- Learning Your Weapon's Unique Shooting Characteristics
- Practice Shooting at the Gun Range or the Archery Video Range
- Setting Up a Hunting Camp for Comfort within Walking Range of Hunting Areas
- Setting Up a Hunting Backpack with Every Thing You Need to Hunt
- Processing the Meat and Preparing for a Trophy Mount
- Improving Your Odds of Getting Drawn in Arizona
- Improving Your Odds of Locating and Harvesting Big Game Animals
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