Elk Hunting Gear Checklist - Be Sure and Remember This!

When looking over your Elk hunting gear checklist,kit. We had stopped along the trail to let our horses
make sure you don't overlook a small, but veryand mules catch their breath. As we visited with each
important item, a first aid kit for your rifle! Believeother, I felt a strange vibration and herd a crunching
me, there will come a time that you'll need somesound from behind me. When I turned around, to my
items to make adjustments and repairs to yourhorror, I saw a mule chewing on the stock of my
hunting rifle. Most of us want to pack as light as webrand new Elk rifle!
can for our Elk hunting trip but don't let that keepWhen we got to camp, I was trying to figure out
you from including a few items that can literally savehow I could smooth out the damaged stock with
your trip.just a hunting knife. I jokingly asked the other
The Elk hunting environment, especially in the Rockyhunters if anybody had some sand paper and one of
Mountains, is a rough and unpredictable place. Factorsthem said he did in his rifle first aid kit. Needless to
such as steep terrain, rain, snow fog, and horses cansay, this fellow saved the day for me. I was able to
all take its toll on a hunting rifle. I have alwayssmooth out the stock and went on to harvest my
suggested that a hunter bring an extra rifle to baseElk with it that season.
camp as a backup. A first aid kit for rifles can alsoA rifle first aid kit should definitely be on your Elk
save the day.hunting gear list. This little kit doesn't take up a lot of
A few years ago I was guiding a group of hunters inroom and could be worth its weight in gold by saving
Colorado when I learned firsthand the value of such ayour hunt.