As a resident of northwestern Wyoming I hear it all the time, “Man, I saw bears everywhere I hunted!” “There was more grizzly sign than elk sign in that unit.” “There is NO way there’s only 700 bears in the GYE!” It’s the same old song every year. Residents of …
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Serial Poacher Sentenced to Wear A Tracking Collar
Justin Hadley from Darby, Montana has had quite the criminal history in Montana which includes prison time from poaching in the past. He was convicted in 2006 for poaching crimes including illegally killing a moose, bighorn sheep and a deer from the road, and wasting the meat from the …
Read More »Montana Poacher Facing 18 Charges
Facing down one misdemeanor charge for each year of his life, Brayden Reed of Shepherd, MT is in up to his neck. “Brayden Reed has been charged with three counts of hunting without a license, three counts of hunting during a closed season, three counts of unlawful use of artificial …
Read More »Mathews V3X Review 29 & 33 – 2022 Bows
This bow review features the Mathews V3X. This bow has 3 new features that set it apart from the V3.The Bridge-Lock Sight system and a sleek new Lower quiver design provides better balance than ever. You can even make easy adjusts at home or in the field without a bow …
Read More »FWP Eliminating Shoulder Seasons
Recently, the director of Montana FWP informed wildlife managers that the state is moving away from shoulder seasons and will begin calling them early and late antlerless elk seasons. Shoulder seasons began in 2016 as an experimental season with the intent of curbing rising elk populations in areas that are …
Read More »Hunting the Elk Rut – BIG Colorado Bulls
Hunt elk in the rut with Eastmans’ Hunting Journals’ hunt winner Dann Miller and Guy Eastman. This episode of Eastmans’ Hunting TV is packed with elk bugling action! With two big 350-class bulls working in close, which one will Dann close the deal on?
Read More »Maybe This Time? – Grizzly Delisting
Man! I hope this happens this time. This 20-year dance of proving the recovery of grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) needs to see these critters delisted from the overreaching Endangered Species Act (ESA). “It was on Sept. 16 that Gov. Mark Gordon and Wyoming Game and Fish Department …
Read More »Outdoor Edge Knife Review – Replaceable Blade Hunting Knives
This knife review features Outdoor Edge’s RazorSafe series of replaceable blade hunting knives. These knives were purpose built for hunters by a hunter. The Eastmans’ Hunting Journals crew has relied on these knives for over a decade and haven’t been disappointed. From elk, deer, moose, antelope and beyond the sharp, …
Read More »Rockstars vs. Grizzlies
When I use the word “rockstar” I don’t think of grizzly bears. In fact, that is the last thing I think of. But if we step back to yesteryear when hair bands ruled the airwaves and their wild partying was the stuff of legends maybe “rockstar” is the appropriate title …
Read More »Protecting the Bighorns in the Tetons
Bighorn sheep are such an iconic species out West and tens of thousands of hunters want to hunt them each year, yet few get to due to the bighorn’s limited range and population densities. With the ever encroaching and expanding human population out West, especially after the craziness of the …
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