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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 …

Above the house 1966 at the age of 17 slinging a cow elk on saddle horses, which my younger brother harvested. Teenager hunting adventures while growing up in Jackson Hole Wyoming the house is within horseback ride of the head of Cache, and Nowlin creeks. While in high school my …

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 …

Without a doubt, black bears are one of the toughest big game animals to put a size to and determine the sex of. The differences between a big sow and small boar from a distance can be ever so subtle and there is no single, surefire, 100% fail-safe factor to …

The elk issue is hands down one of our favorite issues of the year. It’s sometimes hard to pick a favorite big-game animal, but there’s nothing more iconic than an elk when it comes to western hunting. In this year’s issue, we went ahead and jam-packed it full of feature …

By the end of October 2012, I found myself heading to the special rutting grounds to film and photograph the mule deer and bighorn sheep courtships. I have been doing this trip every year since the 60s when I would film for my father Gordon Eastman.While I was searching, I ran …

You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to buy a new dozen arrows anymore! From all types of different constructions and materials to the latest technologies, gone are the days of option A vs. option B. It seems as though if you want to know the latest and greatest, as …

By far the most asked question on the show tour this winter has been, “How tough has the winter been in Wyoming this year?” So here is my synopsis thus far of our winter conditions here in Wyoming. For the most part, if I had to sum up the winter …

It may seem like a ways off yet, but fall will be here before you know it. With fall comes antelope hunting and this past weekend we were reminded just how special a Boone & Crockett antelope buck is. A gentleman from Wyoming came into the Salt Lake City ISE …

With the annual Sheep Issue on its way to mailboxes around the world, we thought we’d share this email we received a few weeks ago. It’s a sad deal, but Mother Nature can be cruel and this just goes to show how cruel. These are winterkill bighorn rams picked up on the Cadomin Mine …