From Whitetails To Elk w/ Dwayne Jones

From Whitetails To Elk w/ Dwayne Jones

From Drawn West by Drawn West with Brian Krebs

May 5, 2026 · 1h 47m

About this episode

Brian Krebs interviews Dwayne Jones about transitioning from whitetail to elk hunting and the strategies involved.

How many points do you actually need before you can hunt elk in Colorado? If you've been watching that number climb and telling yourself "maybe in five more years" — you might be sitting on a play you haven't tried yet. Brian sits down with Dwayne Jones — sales manager for Novick's Outdoors, co-founder of Dream Dirt, and the man behind Shed Season — to talk through his journey from lifelong whitetail hunter to first-time Western elk applicant. Dwayne has never been west of Kansas, but thanks to a tip straight from a Colorado Parks and Wildlife employee, he's heading into the backcountry this September with a bow, a solid group of experienced buddies, and months of elk calls already practiced. The conversation covers what Eastern hunters actually need to know before going West — how elk behave differently than whitetails, why calling strategy matters more than calling perfection, what broadhead to run and why, and how fitness changes your mental game in the mountains. They also get into farm habitat, CRP programs, predator control, and turkey hunting with a bow. The kind of wide-open conversation that happens when two guys who genuinely love this stuff sit down without a…

People in this episode

Host: Brian Krebs

Guest: Dwayne Jones

Topics covered

  • elk hunting
  • whitetail hunting
  • hunting strategy
  • fitness for hunting
  • hunting equipment
  • wildlife management

Keywords

  • elk
  • whitetail
  • hunting strategy
  • broadheads
  • fitness
  • Colorado
  • hunting calls

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Novick's Outdoors, Dream Dirt, Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Places: Colorado, Kansas

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