This is the hunt Blackridge was built around. Camp sits six miles up the trail at 8,900 feet, and from the bench above it you can glass three basins before breakfast. The elk in this country are not pressured, and they behave like it.
We run two hunters per guide with a dedicated packer, which means when a bull goes down at last light four miles from camp, nobody is making a decision about whether the meat comes out tonight. It comes out tonight.
Archery hunters take the September rut weeks, when the bugling is worth the trip on its own. Rifle hunters take October, when the snow starts pushing animals down and the country gets honest.
Gear check at the shop, rifle confirmed on our 100/300/500-yard range, and a briefing on the country you will be hunting. Lodging in town is on you; we keep a short list of places we trust.
Six miles of trail to the wall-tent camp at the head of the drainage. Afternoon is spent glassing the basin above camp so you go to bed knowing where the elk are.
Out before light, back after dark. Two hunters per guide, horses staged for the packout, and a hot meal waiting whatever time you get in.
If your bull is down, the day goes to field care and getting him out clean. If not, you hunt it like the first morning.
Camp strikes after breakfast. Meat is delivered to the processor of your choice in Dubois or Cody the same afternoon.
Spot-and-stalk across open sage where a good buck is found with glass before it is found with boots. Our highest-scoring unit four seasons running.
Best first hunt
Fourteen thousand deeded acres, no competition, and a tag most hunters can draw on their first try. The best three days of glassing on the calendar.
Once-in-a-lifetime
If you have waited twenty years to draw this tag, we will spend eleven days making it count. Two guides, a dedicated packer, and no pressure to settle.
Elk camps fill on repeat hunters. If you want a week, the time to say so is now.