Animal rights activist groups are at it again in Montana regarding wolf management. Thankfully, the Sportsman’s Alliance (click here) is on top of it and making us all aware of what is happening. “WildEarth Guardians and Project Coyote have filed suit in Montana state court to end wolf hunting and …
Read More »Review: Savage Arms Impulse Mountain Hunter
This review features the brand new Savage Arms Impulse Mountain Hunter rifle. This rifle features a fast and easy straight pull action and boasts a PROOF carbon barrel. It’s built for long hikes and big mountains in the backcountry. @EastmansHuntingJournals Ike Eastman and Brandon Mason unbox their own Impulse Mountain …
Read More »Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Utah State University researcher Julie Young, who leads the USDA’s Predator Ecology and Behavior Project in Utah, is working on a fencing research project in the hopes of coming up with best practices for predator fencing to protect livestock from apex predators. According to this report, Young’s goal is to …
Read More »Federal Government Supports Wyoming Big Game Migration
While there are alarming concerns over unnecessary human development in core winter range areas like I reported in this blog (click here), there are also wins to celebrate in the fight to protect key migration corridors for big game in Wyoming (click here). The Wyoming governor, Mark Gordon, and USDA …
Read More »More Encroachment on Pivotal Wyoming Migration Corridors
If I’m being completely honest and not worrying about political correctness, the announcement of further developments and subdivisions in key big game migration corridors in Sublette County, Wyoming and the good ol’ boy actions of county commissioners in that county, make me disgusted. According to a www.wyofile.com report, the county …
Read More »CWD Vaccination in Elk
Recent news from a state game & fish agency shows the continued focus and research on the nefarious Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Researchers from the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, in partnership with University of Alberta, are potentially making headway on a vaccination for CWD. While vaccinations for protein-based diseases …
Read More »OnX Exaggerated 3D Maps
This Eastmans’ review features the new 3D Elevation Exaggeration tool inside the onX hunt desktop platform. It’s a powerful new tool that will make e-scouting even easier, especially in terrain with subtle elevation features. Brandon Mason breaks down how he uses the tool to his advantage on specific hunts.
Read More »Ozonics HR500 – One Touch Scent Elimination!
The new Ozonics HR500 ozone generator makes scent elimination easier than ever before. In this review, Brandon Mason and Dan Pickar share their hunting experiences using Ozonics. This new design is 40% quieter while destroying as much scent as previous models. Minimize your movement even more by using Ozonics’ new app or handheld remote …
Read More »Mule Deer Population Looking Promising!- $10.5M in Habitat Projects
800+ species of wildlife. That’s a big number for me to wrap my little pea-brain around! And $10.5 million, largely from sportsmen, to foot the bill – LOVE IT! Once again, hunters and anglers prove they are the largest conservationists and true advocates of our wildlife and land resources, just …
Read More »Grizzly Euthanized for Dangerous Behavior
We still can’t harvest grizzly bears under a wildlife management/science-based hunting season structure with long-term management goals for the grizzly population, but scores of grizzlies are killed every year because of human-wildlife conflict. The disappointing fact in these scenarios is that much of the time, the conflicts of this nature …
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