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  Justin Hadley from Darby, Montana has had quite the criminal history in Montana which includes prison time from poaching in the past. He was convicted in 2006 for poaching crimes including illegally killing a moose, bighorn sheep and a deer from the road, and wasting the meat from the …

Facing down one misdemeanor charge for each year of his life, Brayden Reed of Shepherd, MT is in up to his neck.  “Brayden Reed has been charged with three counts of hunting without a license, three counts of hunting during a closed season, three counts of unlawful use of artificial …

Recently, the director of Montana FWP informed wildlife managers that the state is moving away from shoulder seasons and will begin calling them early and late antlerless elk seasons. Shoulder seasons began in 2016 as an experimental season with the intent of curbing rising elk populations in areas that are …

Arizona Game and Fish Department is offering a lifetime bonus point as a reward for completion of its Ethically Hunting Arizona course. The course is designed to teach the following… Responsibility, safety, skills. Conservation, Fair Chase, ethics, hunter’s image. Planning, preparation, survival skills. Firearm safety, handling, shot selection. Hunting strategies, …

“Talk of your cold! through the parka’s fold it stabbed like a driven nail. If our eyes we’d close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn’t see; It wasn’t much fun…” The Cremation of Sam McGee – Robert W. Service Snow, ice, sub-freezing temperatures, bleak landscapes seemingly void of …

I will say environmental extremists have tenacity and rarely give up even after being defeated time and time again. The same holds true for Footloose Montana, a radical anti-trapping and hunting organization based in Missoula, Montana that is funded by foreign money. They have been attempting to ban the trapping …

I’m not going to lie – my stomach turned when I read this. On the surface it seems like a good thing to protect our wildlife and land resources from development. However, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been used for decades to further political agendas rather than actually do …

I am blessed to know many of the finest mule deer hunters in the country. Some of them you have heard of, like Brian Barney and Guy Eastman. Then there are some that you haven’t and probably never will because trophy mule deer hunters are often a secretive group who …

“Hey bud, guess how many miles we’ve put on today looking for a buck on public?”  “I don’t know, a lot.” “Yeah, odometer says 253 miles and that doesn’t count how many we’ve put on our boots.” “Wow! I’ve never seen so few antelope in this region and the fact …

It’s a deer hunting bonanza! Over 45 western buck hunts in an action packed 20 minutes from the Eastmans’ Hunting Journals archives. This video features mule deer and whitetail deer hunts.