Tag Archives: Guy Eastman

Guy Eastman is bow hunting big cats! Hunting cougars means hunting with dogs. Trained dogs are used to track down and tree a mountain lion. Arrowing an angry cat is a serious challenge when its cornered 30 feet up in the protection of thick limbs. It’s cats vs. dogs in …

Electric-assist bicycles are growing and growing in popularity. In 2019, our crew spent a lot of time on a Rambo bike and a Bakcou bike (pronounced backoo, formerly called Backcountry eBikes) on our spring hunts and fall hunts. My son and I put on 40 miles on each of these …

Bowhunter Dan Pickar shares his first impressions of the brand new Mathews VXR hunting bow. This 2020 bow is lighter than ever and just as quiet as the Vertix. Pickar uses a chronograph to speed test the VXR with two different arrow weights in this bow review.

Guest Author: Samantha Gangler I could see his all his vitals. I just needed him to look away so I could draw back. Right then, the bull smelled the air in the opposite direction of me. As he tilted his head back, I drew my bow slowly; I leveled, aimed …

Guest Author: Matt Jones Matt went in for the final stalk alone as his mom and I watched from a spot nearby.  It seemed like forever as he worked within 30 yards of the feeding buck, but finally he raised his rangefinder and slowly transitioned to his bow and came …

Guest Author: Brevin Brook Slowly closing the distance, the big bull is headed straight for me. Because of the angle, I didn’t have a frontal shot. So, I had to wait until this bull was probably a yard and a half. The whole time, I was wondering if he was …

Guest Author: Battleborn Wildlife I let my arrow fly and heard it connect with the tank. He jumped and stood perfectly still. Sherman had no idea what had just happened. The arrow made a clean pass through that connected with lungs. The perfectly–placed shot had left Sherman wobbling. Not wanting …

Guest Author: BRANDON STUART As I ran up to my wife, Sharla, she was crying and telling me she had just, “ruined the hunt.”  I told her, “Babe, you just saved the day!”  It had been 11 hours since I had first hit the bull, and we were back in the …

Guest Author: ALEX MILLWARD Ding, ding, ding…. At 3 am, an alarm wasn’t necessarily what I was wanting to hear. At that moment, the internal debate began. You’ve already hunted pretty hard this season, you’re sick and you have to be to work at 9; is it really worth it? Followed …

This article cracked me up after I read it. The first thing asked about low hunter and harvest numbers in Montana from the fall of 2019 was if it was due to CWD. I commend the Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks officials for not knee-jerking their conclusion and comment on …