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One important element to a good hunting product is the willingness of the manufacturer to listen to the consumer and make improvements from time to time. Piranta knives are designed for dressing and caping, not for cutting through bone. Many hunters using the Piranta knife would contact bone or cartilage …

Hey Folks! I have been working on the backpacking chapter of my new book. Here is the first generation frame pack my dad used in Alaska in 1957. He’s using it to pack out a sheep. I have a set of photos of packs from 1957-2011 and they’re all really …

The big game hunting in Wyoming this year should be fair, with a few bright spots here and there. The good news, it should be much better than it was last year. Coming off a bad winter like we did during the 2011 hunting season is always very tough. Thank …

Dan Miller, 68, from Nehawka, NE, saw the blinking light on his answering machine upon returning home from out of town late Tuesday evening, September 4. The unexpected message from Ike Eastman informed him that he was the 2012 Eastmans’ Bowhunting Journal’s Fourth Annual Hunt Winner. Not knowing if the …

Eastmans’ Hunting Journal is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It has been a long road and we have seen a ton of companies grow along with us and a few that were not so lucky – this industry can be tough at times. The consumers or average hunters are …

Holy Velvet Antlers! Which set goes with which buck? I was out taking photos yesterday of bucks that travel from public to private land for the new book. In the book I have a section on tactics for hunting these travelers.                   …

Mongolia is a very interesting locale. Although the republic of Mongolia sits almost exactly half way around the world geographically from Wyoming, it”s as strangely familiar as it is foreign. It”s like a combination of Wyoming and Nevada squeezed in between China and Russia. The landscape and its wildlife are …

When I was just a boy, my grandfather gave me a gift, a true gift in disguise, the book, “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” by Theodore Roosevelt. This was the first book I found interesting enough to read cover to cover. It was some pretty heavy …

In my mind auction tags have always been a potential liability to our sport. As of lately many others in the industry seem to have taken to my viewpoint on the subject. We here at Eastmans’ have been against these tags since their inception and our stance has never waivered. …