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San Juan Outfitting LLC Mark and Sharon Bracich Box 118 Pagosa Springs, CO 81147 Phone 970-731-4868
Winterhawk Outfitters, Inc. Larry & Laura Amos 19561 Kimball Creek Road Collbran, CO 81624 Ph 970-487-3011 Fax 970-487-3175
Circle K Ranch 27758 Hwy 145 Dolores CO 81323 Summer/Winter Reservations -  970-562-3826  or 800-477-6381 Hunting Information (May-Dec) 970-562-3808  (Jan - April) 623-975-1465
Mega Mountain Magic Jake Skobel & Anita Percifield 212 Augusta Drive Leadville, CO 80461 Office 719-486-4570 Evening: 719-486-8236
Battlement Mesa Outfitters Jeff Miner 20781 Kimball Creek Rd Collbran, CO. 81624 Ph 970-487-9918
The Gunnison Country Guide Service John Nelson P.O. Box 1443 Gunnison, CO 81230 Ph 970-641-2830
Buffalo Joe's Box 921 Buena Vista, Co 81211 Ph 1-866-283-3563 Ph 719-395-8757
Scenic River Tours 703 West Tomichi (Hwy 50) Gunnison,Colorado 81230 Ph 970-641-3131
Colorado River Guides P.O. Box 391 Yampa, Colorado 80483 Ph 1-800-938-7238 Ph 970-638-9742
Noah's Ark Whitewater Rafting Company Box 850 23910 US HWY 285 Buena Vista, Colorado 81211 Ph 719-395-2158 Fax 719-395-4033
Arkansas Valley Adventures Deanna Wittmer Arkansas Valley Adventures / Breckenridge Whitewater Colorado Whitewater and Adventure! Ph 800-370-0581 / 877-RAFTING Ph 970-485-3815
Arkansas River Tours 19487 US Hwy. 50 PO Box 337 Cotopaxi,CO 81223 Ph 800-321-4352 Ph 719-942-4362
Big Sky Anglers Joe Moore Box 2153 West Yellowstone, MT 59758 Ph 406-581-6059
Wilderness Trails Ranch DURANGO, CO 81303 Phone 800-527-2624 Phone 970-247-0722
Highlands Unlimited Inc Geoff and Jennifer Burbey 3931 CR 122 Hesperus,CO 81326 Ph 970-247-8443
Fish Creek Outfitters Clay Campbell & Wes Lewis Box 3593 Pagosa Springs, CO 81147 Ph 970-946-4067 (Clay) Ph 970-264-4389 (Wes) Ph 970-759-8499 (Wes)
Over The Hill Outfitters, Inc Randy & Terry Palmer 4140 County Road 234 Durango, Co 81301 Ph 970-385-7656 (Office) Ph 970-247-1694 (Ranch)
Waunita Hot Springs Ranch Ryan and Junelle Pringle 8007 County Road 887 Gunnison, CO 81230 Ph 970-641-1266
Coulter Lake Guest Ranch Jack & Pan Allard 80 County Road 273 Rifle, CO 81650 Ph 800--858-3046 Ph 970-625-1473 Fax 970-625-1473
Commander and Company LTD Lone Pine Recretation Terry Commander Box 530 Somerset, CO 81434 Ph 970-929-6202
Hubbard Creek Outfitters Larry Allen Box 25 Hotchkiss, Colorado 81419 Ph 970-872-3818
Lone Tom Outfitting Paul Janke 12888 RBC 8 Meeker, CO 81641 Phone 970-878-5122
Bray Ranches Robert & Melissa Bray Box 65 Redvale CO 81431 Ph 970-327-4779 ( Robert ) Ph 970-327-4933 (Lance ) Ph 970-327-0165 ( Zandon )
Beaver Creek Outfitters Scott Gesell 54432 Sandy River Drive Lenoard, MN 56652 Ph 218-368-3679

The North American Elk, or wapiti, is a recluse. It’s shy, retiring – much preferring a quite refuge in deep, dark timber to showing itself in open terrain during daylight. Yet when the power of the mating urge begins to take over a bull elk’s psyche, he has a tool to tell the world he’s there and he’s a force with which to be reckoned.A bull elk’s eerie bugle drifting off the mountain and through the trees will stir the soul of any hunter. It’s a “you’ve got to be there” moment.Pursuing elk challenges today’s hunter on two levels. First, there is the majestic animal itself – big, boisterous in the rut, yet highly elusive to the point of seeming mythical in the wilderness that is its home. And then there is the other challenge: the sheer immensity, remoteness and steepness of the hunting arena. To successfully hunt elk you need to be in excellent physical shape and ready to work to earn any reward that may wait in front of your bullet or broadhead. Elk have a keen sense of smell, and excellent ears. You must keep wind in your favor when elk hunting, or they will detect you from a great distance. Elk eyesight is very good, too, so it’s critical to use terrain and cover to your advantage when making a stalk. If you’re sitting a stand or calling an elk to you, it’s imperative that you stay perfectly still and well camouflaged as elk can spot even your slightest movement. Elk are grazers most of the year, which means they eat grass, explaining their affinity for meadows, fields, clear cuts and other open areas where grass, forbs and weeds abound. In winter, elk browse on sage, willow, aspen and dogwood, or eat cured grass. Because of elk habitat change and reduction, elk frequently invade lowland farm country in the winter to get at hay yards to supplement naturally available feed. In traditional wintering areas, elk present a tourist attraction as viewers flock in from all over the world to see thousands of animals gathered with they are most visible.Despite their size, elk can move. A herd can trot seemingly forever at 10 to 20 mph and not even breathe hard. When really busting out, elk have been clocked at 35 mph; as fast as a whitetail deer. Most rifle elk seasons happen during the transition period when the rut is over but migration hasn’t taken place. Hunting pressure often holes up the elk in thick cover (often called dark timber) during the day, and they only come out to feed at night. This means you must get into the woods and work for your elk; spotting elk in the limited time they spend outside of the dark timber and making a stalk is the most productive tactic. Finally there is the migration period, usually rifle and muzzleloader hunting time. This can be great hunting. Now elk are streaming out of the high country to foothills and ranchlands below. Set up and wait along migration corridors, or glass a herd and make a stalk along their anticipated travel route.

The home range of the black bear can depend on food source availability, season, and gender. Males generally range between 8-60 square miles, while females generally range between 1-15 square miles. These large ranges allow black bear to seek out many food sources as well as find mates when breeding season approaches. Bear is the smallest of the three bear species found in North America, and are found only in North America. Black bear have short, non-retractable claws that give them an excellent tree-climbing ability. Bear fur is usually a uniform color except for a brown muzzle and light markings that sometimes appear on their chests. Eastern populations are usually black in color while western populations often show brown, cinnamon, and blond coloration in addition to black. Bear with white-bluish fur are known as Kermode (glacier) bears and these unique color. American black bear are omnivorous: plants, fruits, nuts, insects, honey, salmon, small mammals and carrion. In northern regions, they eat spawning salmon. Black bear will also occasionally kill young deer or elk calves. Bear are extremely adaptable and show a great variation in habitat types, though they are primarily found in forested areas with thick ground vegetation and an abundance of fruits, nuts, and vegetation. In the northern areas, they can be found in the tundra, and they will sometimes forage in fields or meadows. Black bear tend to be solitary animals, with the exception of mothers and cubs. The bear usually forage alone, but will tolerate each other and forage in groups if there is an abundance of food in one area. Most bear hibernate depending on local weather conditions and availability of food during the winter months. In regions where there is a consistent food supply and warmer weather throughout the winter, bear may not hibernate at all or do so for a very brief time. Females give birth and usually remain denned throughout the winter, but males and females without young may leave their dens from time to time during winter months. Bear have been spending a lot of time eating acorns, one of their main food sources in the fall. bear have been observed high up in oak trees eating acorns for hours at a time. To reduce bear and other wildlife from becoming habituated to human presence, be sure to give all animals space while observing them. If you see a bear foraging naturally, please be respectful and remember to stay at least 150 feet away. Bear eat mostly berries, nuts, grasses, carrion, insect larvae and have color vision and a keen sense of smell. Bear are good tree climbers and swimmers and very intelligent and curious. Black bear can run up to 35 miles per hour and weigh an average of 125 to 600 pounds. The go without food for up to 7 months during bear hibernation in northern ranges usually give birth to 2 to 3 bear cubs during the mother's sleep every other year. Bear can live over 25 years in the wild (average age in the wild is 18) and are typically shy and easily frightened.

Mountain lion, also known as cougars, panthers, or pumas, are highly efficient predators. These cats have a wide range throughout the Western states, and populations are increasing. An individual lion range depends on food availability. Thus, a range can vary from 10 to 370 square miles. Male lion weigh up to 165 pounds and grow to more than eight feet in length. Females weigh about 100 pounds. Female lions generally first reproduce at about two and one half years of age. Generally they have two or three young (kittens). A lion  life span is estimated at 12 years in the wild, although lion  have lived up to 25 years in captivity. Lion are solitary animals. They tend to live in remote country and are seldom seen by humans. They hunt their prey by stealth and ambush. Their method of killing is usually with a powerful bite at the base of the skull, breaking the neck. The lion, like the domestic cat with a mouse, will kill for the sake of killing. A lion may kill many more animals in an attack than it can possibly consume. Lion have killed as many as twenty sheep at one time.  A  lion requires 8 to 10 pounds of meat per day to survive. Its diet consists of deer, elk, porcupines, small mammals, livestock, and pets. Generally a lion prefers deer. Experts tell us a lion kills one deer every 9 to 14 days.   And in some areas, it has been found that a lion kills as many as two deer per week, especially in hot weather. Why? First, a lion tends to leave a carcass once it has begun to spoil. Second, scavengers find the carcass the lion has killed and hidden. They consume it before the lion returns to feed on the remains. Wildlife Services Specialists find that success in capturing problem lions is much greater within two days of the actual kill than thereafter.

The antelope is the speedster of the North American prairies. It presents an exciting hunting challenge because it lives every second of life on the edge of flight. As with all prey species living in wide-open country, the antelope senses of sight, smell and hearing are highly attuned to danger at all times. And when they detect danger is even a possibility, they don’t wait around to find out … they are gone on the run in a cloud of dust. The allure of antelope hunting is applying hunting skills to get close enough to make a clean, one-shot kill. The antelope is a native North American critter unto itself. The main differentiation from Old World antelope is the build and growth of the pronghorn’s horns. At the very core is bone growing from the front of the antelope skull. It is surrounded by a keratinous (aka hair/skin) sheath which the prairie goats shed annually then regrow. Like traditional antelope, both males and females have horns, but they are much more pronounced in bucks than in does. Even when the antelope shed the horn sheaths, bucks remain distinctive because of their markings including black facial patches. As for body size, antelope are among the smallest and slightest of North American big game animals. An adult buck will stand between 34 and 41 inches high at the shoulder and weigh about 90 – 125 pounds. A massive antelope buck will tip the scales at 150 pounds live weight. Does have roughly the same frame, but will seldom weigh more than 110 pounds on the hoof. How fast are antelope? It depends on who you ask, but it’s believed that flat out antelope can run up to 60 mph on a straight line. They are recognized as the fastest land animal in the Western Hemisphere and probably the second fastest land animal next to the cheetah in Africa. And antelope can sustain top speeds for amazing distances. Fleet-footed antelope are among the speediest animals in North America. They can run at more than 53 miles  an hour, leaving pursuing coyotes and bobcats in the dust. Antelope are also great distance runners that can travel for miles at half that speed. Antelope are about three feet  tall at the shoulders. They are reddish brown, but feature white stomachs and wide, white stripes on their throats. When startled antelope raise the hair on their rumps to display a white warning patch that can be seen for miles. Both sexes sport impressive, backward-curving horns. The horns split to form forward-pointing prongs that give the species its name. Some antelope have horns that are more than a foot long. Like other even-toed hoofed animals, antelope chew cud—their own partially digested food. The meal of choice for this speedy herbivore is generally grass, sagebrush, and other vegetation.  Antelope mate each fall in the dry, open lands of western North America. Bucks gather harems of females and protect them jealously—sometimes battling rivals in spectacular and dangerous fights. In the spring, females give birth to one or two young, which can outrun a human after just a few days. Antelope are hunted throughout much of their natural range, but some subspecies are endangered.

Bighorn sheep  are one of two species of mountain sheep in North America. They range in color from light brown to grayish or dark brown, and have a white rump and lining on the backs of all four legs. Bighorn sheep get their name from the large, curved horns on the males, or rams. They are legendary for their ability to climb high, steep, rocky mountain areas. Bighorn sheep eat different foods depending on the season. During the summer, they subsist on grasses or sedges. During the winter they eat more woody plants, such as willow, sage and rabbit brush. Desert bighorn sheep eat brushy plants such as desert holly and desert cactus. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were between 1.5 million to two million bighorn sheep in North America. Today, there are less than 70,000. Bighorn sheep were once widespread throughout western North America. By the 1920’s, bighorn sheep were eliminated from Washington, Oregon, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and part of Mexico. Today, populations have been re-established through transplanting sheep from healthy populations into vacant places. Bighorn sheep live in herds or bands of about 5 to 15 ewes, lambs, yearlings, and two-year olds. Groups of males are much smaller, usually numbering two to five. In the winter, the ewe herds join to create bands of as many as 100 animals. In the fall, the rams compete for ewes by having butting contests. They charge each other at speeds of more than 20 mph, their foreheads crashing with a crack that can be heard more than a mile away. These battles may last as long as 24 hours.

Turkey hunting can be done in both spring and fall seasons in many locations. Spring is the mating season during which you’ll use the tom’s bravado and territorialism against him in trying to overcome the turkeys’ incredible wariness. In the fall, a number of methods of turkey hunting are employed to locate and draw birds into range, though none can quite match the thrill of calling in brash gobblers in the spring. In fall seasons in many states, both toms and hens are legal game. The combination of access to good turkey habitat, the unique hunting skills required to bring a turkey into shotgun or bow range spring or fall, and the experience of years of chasing long beards makes turkey hunting a natural pursuit in which to enlist the aid of a highly-rated outfitter. Top turkey hunting outfitters offer packages from basic food, lodging, and access all the way to full-guided hunts in which all you need to do is manage to stay calm and shoot straight. In the contiguous 48 states and Canada there are four recognized subspecies of wild turkey that constitute what’s called a “turkey grand slam”, though they readily interbreed in areas where their habitat overlaps. They are the Osceola (or Florida), the Eastern, the Rio Grande (often called “Rios” for short) and the Merriam’s. The Eastern Wild Turkey is generally recognized to be the largest of the primary subspecies and have the largest range of them all. A mature male Eastern can reach as tall as four feet and weigh as much as 25 – 28 pounds. The hens are significantly slighter in build, weighing about 15 pounds at maximum, but most are much smaller than that. A hunting technique that overlaps spring and fall seasons is the use of blinds in scouted feeding areas or known routes from or to roost sites. Success depends on frequent encounters with the birds to learn their habits and preferences. The most traditional fall hunting technique is to locate a flock of turkeys, then scatter them. In total camouflage, you sit down and use hen, jake and jenny assembly calls to bring the flock back together. In most states, any turkey is legal during the fall season. Some established outfitters have refined this flock scattering technique to include specially trained dogs that locate and thoroughly break up the flock (where this is legal.) The dog then returns to the hunter and lays down silently next to him (often in specially tailored camouflage suits) while the hunter calls the flock to assemble.