Tag Archives: Hunting

The Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) announced drastic tag cuts in some deer and antelope hunts in eastern Oregon. Cuts range from 25% to 50%, averaging 40% for deer in the affected units and 36% for antelope. All told, there are twelve 100 Series deer units affected with …

Bowhunter Ty Martin takes to the hills of Montana to arrow a trophy bull elk in a limited-quota hunting unit with his sights set on harvesting the trophy of a lifetime. After several close encounters with mature bulls that any hunter would be proud of, Martin closes the deal on …

Dan Pickar loves to hunt every big game species he can acquire a tag for with his bow. However, as much as he loves bow hunting as a whole his priority will always be hunting elk at the peak of the rut. That passion for elk hunting can be seen …

Learn the same skills as special forces operators and keep yourself alive in the face of hypothermia without a fire. Join Eastmans’ Todd Helms as he subjects himself to the Rewarming Drill under the guidance of Sitka Gear’s John Barklow. READ THE FULL ARTICLE BY SUBSCRIBING DIGITALLY The Legalese While …

Hunting a moose with antlers as wide as the dining room table is on just about every hunter’s bucket list! In the April/May issue of Eastmans’ Hunting Journal Gary English tells the story of filling his moose tag in Alaska on a hunt that most of us have only dreamed …

Winter 16/17 has been brutal and we have broken the 30/30 formula on multiple occasions. Snow-pack in most areas are higher than 100% of normal and we still have the spring snow storms headed our way. The question now becomes Will winter kill destroy my western hunting plans for 2017? …

  Imagine stepping back in time. Put down your coffee, turn off the smart phone and completely remove yourself from everything you know. Now take all that familiar urban background noise and mute it. When we are free from all of our niceties and creature comforts, we as humans still …

“Everyone is lucky until they aren’t…” – John Barklow John could not have said it any better and to take it a step further, luck breeds complacency which results in contentment and culminates in over-confidence. So if we take equal parts luck, complacency and contentment combined, you have the recipe …

Last year I had one of the best years of my hunting career for pronghorn. I was lucky enough to have tags for Wyoming, Montana and Colorado to fill. With a little luck I filled all three on quality bucks that now have places in my office and home. All …

Taking any big game animal with a bow is a challenge! Now imagine that you have a potential record book ram from a limited entry, once in a life time hunt in Arizona and the stakes go up tremendously! Press play to watch the video from Randy Spray’s feature story …