Add this one to the list of “piss poor” policy decisions coming out of this administration. On Tuesday, July 26 a committee of unelected bureaucrats chose to shut down Dall’s sheep hunting in two entire hunt units within the mostly federally managed Brooks Mountain Range in northern Alaska. Having hunted …
Read More »Revised Public Land Filming Bill Coming Down The Pipe
We almost all know by now that our Government lives under the rock of unintended consequences regarding ridiculous legislation. There is no more clear example than the commercial filming law introduced nearly three decades ago by Wyoming’s own Senator Craig Thomas, God rest his soul. Senator Thomas was a good …
Read More »Wyoming Range Mule Deer Trends
I’ve got some very positive news coming in from western Wyoming in regards to mule deer population and herd trends. Based on what we are currently seeing, a mule deer rebound could finally be taking shape in the famed Wyoming mule deer Region-G. The Wyoming Game and Fish management …
Read More »An Auction Tag We Can Get on Board With
At this year’s Hunt Expo in Salt Lake City a Utah state representative and mule deer aficionado bought the Antelope Island mule deer tag, arguably the best mule deer tag in the entire country for a whopping $310,000. A win for Utah conservation, but then he did something that …
Read More »Endangered Bison? More Dangerous Than Endangered.
According to local reports, on Friday the US Fish and Wildlife Service made an announcement that the Yellowstone Bison is being considered for listing to the Endangered Species List under the United States Endangered Species Act, a US Statute that grants very strict and regulated management and protections for the …
Read More »Hunting the Deer Rut
Hunt for a trophy mule deer buck with Eastmans’ hunt winner Larry Zellar and Guy Eastman during a November blizzard. It’s the peak of the rut and there is no shortage of deer in the area on this web episode of Eastmans’ Hunting TV.
Read More »Guy’s TOP 5 Picks for Wyoming Mule Deer 2022
Based purely on the data and uncertainty going into this year’s Wyoming mule deer draw this list should probably be blank, however, that does not work well for readers so I will give you the best list possible with the information I have at this time. With absolutely no doubt …
Read More »Guy’s TOP 5 Picks for Wyoming Antelope 2022
The antelope hunting last fall produced some of the poorest results in recent memory statewide. With a three-year drought as the main contributing factor the hunting was very tough for big bucks in the Cowboy State. As a result, the state has continued to cut and slash tag quotas in …
Read More »WYOMING- Winter Range Update, May 1st, 2022
What a difference a few days can make. With two big spring storms in the rear view and one more yet on the short-term horizon, the moisture situation in Wyoming has improved drastically over the past ten days. We can now say, this spring has been much more wet that …
Read More »Wyoming Winter Range Report
The general synopsis of the Wyoming winter conditions for 2022 would be, “mild,” very, very mild up until just recently. In fact, up until this week the outlook for snow pack and spring run off was almost scary. However, a large spring storm has sent the Cowboy state a snowy …
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