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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.

According to an article in the Oil City News new areas in our home state of Wyoming have been identified positive for CWD. Deer areas 144, 148 and elk area 41 are the new positives. CWD has been a hot button issue across the West for many years and the …

Reports like these are tough to take. This one made my stomach turn, thinking of the chaos this particular father and son hunting trip ended up being and ultimately ending in an unexpected death of the father. Hunting in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming for elk, they were hiking back …

“But, but, I “feel” like a Wyoming resident.” Feelings are apparently not good enough for the Wyoming Game and Fish residency requirements. Shocker!  Of course I’m being more than a little saucy here but the fact remains that poachers will do and say just about anything to avoid the long …