An early summer morning found me checking my draw status. I expected a nice refund check from the Wyoming Fish and Game, but much to my amazement “successful” graced my results. As it always does when you draw a coveted tag, summer quickly passed, and two days before season I …

If you’ve been reading Eastmans’ for the past couple of years, odds are you’re familiar with Vortex optics. They’ve blasted onto the optics scene seemingly out of nowhere and have quietly been building a large following. Not only does their product justify the buzz, but their attention to the western …

EBJ79 – First Look With any luck you are reading this column in a hunting camp somewhere waiting for the bucks or bulls to get up and move again for the evening. Where does the time go? Here we are again at the start of another hunting season. It seems …

Roger Selner of the Eastmans’ Trophy Deer Tour brought us a sneak peek of the huge bucks that will be on tour next year throughout the western US. You have to see these bucks to believe them. The average score of the mule deer bucks is a whopping 234 inches …

A public land, DIY hunt is what this issue of EHJ is all about. Spending time with longtime friends, family or loved ones doing what you love to do best, making all of the preparations, decisions and owning up to your failures is what this part of the sport is …

If you failed to draw a tag anywhere in the Rocky Mountain region or you simply forgot to enter any of the draws, fear not. Contrary to popular belief all is not quite lost. Thankfully for most of us, there still are some over-the-counter (OTC) options still available. Colorado has some …

Before diving into the top-of-the-line features of this raingear, I must first digress a bit.  While testing this layer from the original technical clothing innovators, that is Sitka, I had one of those “ah-ha” moments.  What a true pleasure it is to be a mountain hunter in this era we …

The high country is one of the few places where a bowhunter can still seek out and find an above-alpine adventure in its purest form. A sad truth is that the true backcountry hunter is slowly becoming a dying breed. These select few hunters are the toughest of the tough. …

A mild yet wet spring has come as a blessing to the Northern Rocky Mountain region. With the official start of summer only a few short days away spring is for the most part behind us now. The winter snowpack ended up just shy of historic average levels. With only …

Custom rifles have been around a long time. However, in recent years they’ve gained notoriety in all aspects from hunting to bench rest shooting. While some guys can’t fathom spending several thousand dollars on a single rifle, some do it without blinking an eye because they know what they’re getting. When you …