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  Humpy wondered up to my deck and around the homestead this morning! I got up at 5:00 to start the fire and looked out and no tracks. Looked out again at 7:00 and the grizzly had walked up to the deck and went around to the left and under …

We’re continuing to see an alarming trend in Western wildlife management. I am calling it the “Predator Death Spiral.” The underlying cause of this phenomena is when a wildlife agency attempts to hide or “pad” their big game population estimates when over predation begins to take hold. This in turn …

Can any one spare some Tabasco Sauce? I need to eat my mule deer and antelope tag and a little spicing up would make it go down easier. Found a big MD the last day of the season but the old boy held up in the brush until closure. A …

This afternoon my wife came busting thru the door. A grizzly was down the way eating on a deer or elk. So I went down and took a few photos of the sow. I think she is a young 4 years old. Saw her cub in the timber. She didn’t …

  My dad Gordon Eastman was inducted into the Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame. The primary purpose of the Hall of Fame is to honor those individuals who have made significant, lasting, lifetime, contributions to the conservation of Wyoming outdoor heritage. The Hall of Fame is to promote Wyoming’s rich …

The evidence that the Northern Rocky Mountain mule deer herd is in a tailspin keeps piling up. The deer herds in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana have had a very rough go at it as of the past few years, however the winter of 2010-2011 seems to have put many of …

Here we go again!!! Sitting in my office watching the computer screen on Weather.com anxiously waiting for the go ahead to hit the hills after big Wyoming bulls. It’s just unfortunate that the full moon this year falls right on the 13th of September. I’ve learned this lesson before. I …

I figured that before fall gets crazy, I’d get back on the ‘ol blog and check in with you guys. It’s horribly cliché to say this, but where does the time go? It seems like just last week that I was blogging about show season and as I sit down …

1.) Set Aside Enough Time- I always make sure to set aside the proper amount of time to hunt an area effectively. Some factors that go into this decision are of course the length of the season, the specie you are hunting and your familiarity with the country. As a …

For those of us who DON’T turkey hunt, a good spring bear hunt is about as good as it gets to get the cabin fever and the dust knocked off the old bow or rifle. Although, I do have to say I’m just going to miss all those turkey pics …