Stories from the Field

I’m sitting in bed, inside my camper, parked just below an open hillside within Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest. It’s 9:00 in the morning, robins are chirping outside and a fresh dusting of snow is melting off the...

Last winter, after deciding to press pause on the hunt for Holyfield until 2017, I set my sights on a new target for the coming months. Finding Holyfield’s sheds. I’d decided to wait another year before trying...

Earlier this month, I enjoyed one of the best shed hunting trips of my life. Interestingly, I didn’t find a single antler. A week and a half ago, seven of my best hunting buddies and I converged in...

By Dan Johnson It’s March, and for me that only means one thing… shed hunting! Let me yell it one more time from the mountain top so you can get a good idea of how much I love this activity…...

I occasionally get a little down. Especially on days like this when the weather is lousy, hunting season is many months away, and current events and the corresponding social media is seemingly so divisive. It’s times like these that a hunting story can...

Holyfield finally slipped up. After months of planning, too many hours of hunting to count, and 25 in-person sightings of this buck, this past Friday I finally could have (hypothetically) shot and killed Holyfield. But I didn’t....

Today’s journal entry is for me. No offense, but today I’m putting these words on virtual paper not necessarily for your benefit, but more so for my own. You know, like a normal journal. Most people journaling...

Today’s reader success story comes from CJ Turner who has had an absolutely unbelievable 2016 season, tagging two 5.5 year old bucks with his bow. This story is sure-fire proof that passing young bucks and hunting them smart in future...