Misc

As we all know having one piece of gear that performs in 100% of the conditions we face, though a great dream, is an impossible request. Sitka is no stranger to western hunters and they also recognize that there’s not one garment that will do it all. Their solution to …

There be grizz in them hills! was a common campfire joke when I was young. The older I got the more true that statement became with old humpies expansion further south into areas where 30 years before they weren’t common. The reality is that the population has grown and will …

September is finally here and we are off to a great start! Brandon Mason and I just returned from a Caribou hunt in Canada and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. I harvested a good bull with my bow and Brandon harvested two bulls, one with a rifle and …

Make sure your pack is loaded properly! Enjoy these tips and enjoy a more comfortable pack in and hopefully a heavy pack out! For more great Eastmans’ content subscribe HERE.

Do you have valuables that you would like to protect? If so a Liberty Safe just might be the answer!

  Here we go. We’re approaching zero hour with the start of most 2014 seasons. Some have actually started and I’ve seen a few good trophies come across my desk. With that in mind, I wanted to take a quick second to help you prepare for the opener if you …

The first time that I realized that high-altitude pockets and basins were good places to search for trophy elk was as an 18-year old guide. I was guiding in 1967 for a second generation outfitter, Keith Stilson. Keith’s hunting area was up in the Gros Ventre River country. Ravaged by …

As we all know, there are tradeoffs for everything. In the world of optics this seems to be more prevalent than anywhere else. Do you want smaller and lighter or do you want more power and light-gathering ability but heavier (in some cases much heaver) with the ability to see …

Insanity is often defined as repeating the same action and expecting a different result. Yet here we sit with green groups proposing an expansion of the grizzly bear’s range into other national parks and refuges. On the surface this doesn’t seem like a terrible idea but let‘s take a hard …

Finding places to hunt is never easy.  Finding access to public land in the midst of sections of private can be even tougher.  OnXmaps is the solution with their digital mapping products.