During the rut each fall, trophy bulls battle for the right to breed. Hunter Guy Eastman finds one bull elk that made the ultimate sacrifice. Nature is brutal. For more content from Eastmans’ SUBSCRIBE HERE!
Read More »Field Guide To Trophy Prep And Meat Care
We are in the heart of hunting season and making the most of your trophy’s meat, cape, and antlers is very important. We have put all of our videos on meat care, trophy preparation, preservation and load hauling all in one place. Make sure you take the time to watch …
Read More »Mauled By a Grizzly Bear…Twice!
On Sunday evening social media blew up when Eastmans’ contributing author, Todd Orr posted a video on Facebook of the aftermath of his encounter with a sow grizzly bear and her two cubs. See the video below: For more great content SUBSCRIBE HERE! Most of you who have followed this …
Read More »Welcome To The Rut!
Every year about this time all of us have one thing on our mind – rutting bulls and their piercing bugles in the air of September and October. To help with the side effects of your addiction, we are going to put every video we have from hunting the elk …
Read More »New Packs- Is It Time?
This year I had the pleasure of tackling a pack review for our 13th issue. Three to five day packs are the ones that I use and abuse the most because my falls are incredibly busy, and like most of you it is tough to be gone longer than that. …
Read More »Extended Accuracy: The HS Precision PLR
Rifle hunting out West is hard enough. Between the increased amount of fellow hunters in the field and the seasons falling during a time when it’s harder to locate trophy-class animals – you have your work cut out for you. So why compound that difficulty with a rifle that has …
Read More »How To Score Your Bull Elk
Do you have a tag in your pocket and the dream of killing a big bull this fall? Guy Eastman breaks down how to use the Boone & Crockett scoring system for measuring trophy elk after you fill your tag. Using a measuring tape, you can calculate your bull’s gross score to …
Read More »The Kryptek Vellus Series and Anorak Jacket
“Quiet and warm” is the mantra of the mid to late-season hunter and Kryptek answered with the new Vellus fleece system. These garments are created of windproof, waterproof, seam-sealed and highly breathable laminates sandwiched between a pile-resistant fleece. They also insulated the interstitial space with Thinsulate Platinum XTS insulation to …
Read More »Weather and Antler Growth Forecast: California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington
This is a year of transition in the atmosphere and the result will have major implications for hunters across the West. We’re coming off a super-El Nino event that dominated the Pacific Ocean last fall and winter – one of the strongest on record – and could be diving right …
Read More »Burning It Down: Will Fire Season Hurt Your Hunt?
As I prepared the last part of this year’s series on weather and antler growth for this season I didn’t feel like I would be doing you any favors unless I included information on the major fires that are burning across the West. In early July the smoke rolled into …
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