“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” John Wooden In the spirit of “doing” we sometimes run before we walk and therefore stumble and fall. Just recently we discovered an error in our attempt to bring you the most up …
Read More »MYSTERY RANCH Metcalf in Subalpine Giveaway!
MYSTERY RANCH is proud to announce that their Metcalf pack now comes in the Subalpine pattern from Gore! To make this announcement even better MYSTERY RANCH wanted to make sure we let all of you know that they now have a harness designed specifically with the ladies in mind, designed …
Read More »The Secret Sauce…Hacking The System
Every hunter is looking for the secret sauce that allows someone to draw as many tags as possible on a regular basis. The problem with secret sauces is that they usually don’t actually exist. Grill masters recipes vary slightly but the winners in pit challenges are the cooks who can …
Read More »Guy’s 2018 Top Wyoming Elk Hunts
The elk herd in Wyoming has fared very well these past few years. The 2016 surveys have put most of the elk herds in the limited quota areas in the state well above objective levels with drastically rising bull to cow ratios, all good news for hunters. With the heavy …
Read More »Filling Quotas: 2017 Wolf Hunt
After a nearly a decade long hiatus Wyoming is finally back on track with seasonal gray wolf hunting kicking off in 2017. After not hunting wolves for so long in the Cowboy State we have a massive overabundance of them roaming the hills and valleys, which is the reason so …
Read More »More Wyoming Tags For Non-Residents?
Wyoming is producing its fair share of political waves in the big game hunting world. Wyomings outfitter’s are lobbying to have more tags allocated to non-resident hunts for elk as a result of the population growth seen in recent years. Every few years the equation for coming up with how …
Read More »Outlawed: Big Game GPS Coordinate Sales
It is still unpopular to scout a mature mule deer in a unit you don’t have a tag for and then sell those coordinates to someone who has the tag. Last year this concept was made known to the hunting world on a mule deer hunting focused forum. It didn’t …
Read More »Our Favorite Calibers!
We all have it. That one rifle that we can’t help but reach for inside the gun safe, the one we consider our most reliable. The one that because of our prejudice towards its accuracy and knock down power has a higher kill count than all the others. Here are …
Read More »Missing The Forest For The Trees: Wolf Data Destroyed?
We’ve all heard the expression “don’t miss the forest for the trees”. We are all guilty of missing the big picture at times, as this old saying implies. Recently, the Congressionally designated Wilderness Act proved once again that people often “miss the forest for the trees” when it comes to …
Read More »What Is It With Gear Lists: Part 2
Continued from What Is It With Gear Lists? Part 1 Skill Three: Effective Glassing So now that I have established that spending time in the hills trumps being #mountainstrong let’s talk about what to do when you are in the mountains. You have to find game to harvest game and in …
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