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I’ve hunted a lot of elk. I’ve guided a lot of elk hunts as well. If I’ve learned one thing it’s that elk hunting parallels life… and life isn’t fair. Be careful what you ask for, ’cause you just might get it. You’re not as good as you think you are. Once you get to [...]
One of our hunters just got back from another successful wilderness, horseback mountain lion hunt. Conditions were rough because there was no snow. They rode lots of miles on the horses, but never could cut a fresh track on the dry ground. They found a lot of kills, but they were mostly wolf kills. Wolves [...]
Hog hunting in Utah you ask? Well, kind of… For the past few years we have gone camping with my wife’s family in Utah during Easter weekend. Our traditional Easter camping spot is about a mile or so away from a big ranch loaded with exotic game including Russian Boar and I’m intrigued every time [...]
Three or four elk hunting seasons ago, I guided Dave Brucken and Dr. Rance Gamblin on an Idaho archery elk hunt. Dave works for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and wrote a story about our little adventure that was later published in their Bugle Magazine. He and I have stayed in touch and he has [...]
It started as just a regular Idaho black bear hunt and it became an obsession. I was guiding bear hunters in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains and a group of hunters from Wisconsin had sent us some trail cameras. We had six well-established baits spread over our hunting area and they were already getting hit hard even [...]
Have you checked out our Facebook page lately? There’s a lot going on over there with some great information. Very important note to start: you don’t need to have a Facebook account to have a look at our Facebook page. Why not check out the link? Here’s the kind of stuff that happens on our [...]
Antelope are very intuitive animals. Anything can spark their interest and they will come and check it out. Antelope are also very territorial, probably one of the most territorial animals I know of. Antelope can see very well at long distances. Their eyes are like binoculars, but I believe they can not see that well [...]
Sturgeon fishing is great in the middle portion of the free flowing Snake River in Idaho. This area has a stable population of sturgeon. Idaho is a catch and release fishery for sturgeon fishing, which is good throughout much of the spring, summer and into the late fall months. We are lucky enough to have [...]
by David Pereda You can’t kill what you can’t see. Period. It’s not going to happen. Let’s take a look at my personal battery of hunting optics and tripods and why I choose them for Western Big Game Hunting. Swarovski hunting optics are number one on my list for binoculars for big game hunting. From [...]
Even though there isn’t an awesome kill scene at the end, you should watch this video. It just might make you feel better the next time you miss. It happens to all of us eventually. In fact, it’s happened to me more times than I care to admit. Oh well, you live you learn right? [...]
Skunk Spray, Skunk Remedy for Your Dog So how many of you bird hunters out there has had your hunting dog sprayed by a skunk? I know I have… many times. The first few times I tried to wash my poor stinking pup in tomato juice. That doesn’t work. The second time I put my [...]
I’m a big UFC fan, and even though I’m not the biggest fan of Former UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar, I do like that he is a avid hunter. I have the chance to prove that I can compete with the best MMA fighters in the world. It is an honor.” ~ Brock Lesnar I [...]
I have been chasing mulies for years, and this hunt is a phenomenal find. It is a first-rate, high-quality experience any way you look at it. I will be going back. I hunted mule deer this past August during an early-season velvet hunt and took a mule deer buck that green scored close to 200 B&C, and I saw but could not get on a buck that would have scored another 15 to 20. That buck was higher, wider and had a 14-inch sword point on one side of his rack. I lost him after an all-morning stalk in the timber. Fifteen minutes later, I spotted the buck I eventually killed. I also saw a third buck that was larger still. In total, I saw 15 bucks in a day and a half. An incredible hunt! [Read the rest...]
Just back from guiding a successful mountain lion hunt in Big Creek. Shane and I found a fresh kill on the first evening. The mountain lion had just killed a cow elk minutes before we got there and drug it down to the ice by the creek. It was snowing hard, and when we found [...]
The hunting for California quail in Idaho is incredible… and it’s a sleeper. The locals don’t even really take advantage of it. Most of them are out chasing chukars (which I love to hunt too) and the poor little quail get neglected. I’ve only been out once so far this year, but we got into [...]
This is the first year we have offered this antelope hunt and one of our Hunting Consultants went down in late October and checked it out for us. He and his cousin had a great time and we’ve since added this new hunt to our directory as an “O.I. Approved Hunt”. Doak’s exact words were: [...]
September is right around the corner and that means dove hunting all across the country will be opening. Be sure to spend a little bit of time scouting just prior to opening day to find roosts, feeding fields and waterholes. Places that are holding doves late in August should still produce birds in early September. [...]
I get asked all the time what type of .22 parents should get for their kids first rifle, so I did a little research and here you go. For my kids’ first gun, we went with a cheap bb gun. Nothing fancy, just something so they could learn the mechanics of loading, cocking, aiming and [...]
As pretty much everybody knows, wolf season opened here in Idaho temporarily in 2009. I only got out wolf hunting once and didn’t have any success, but I’m going to try harder once they open it up again. Two of my friends got wolves that year and I congratulate them. They worked hard… anyway, I [...]
Thank you to Dayne Shuda of Hunting Business Marketing for naming this post one of the Top 50 Hunting Blog Posts of 2009! My buddy Kris Keller who runs Sulphur Creek Ranch invited us on a wolf hunt / scouting trip for elk season. There was one catch though. We had to help him build [...]
I’ve been a busy guy the last few years and haven’t gotten out hunting nearly enough. To be honest, I’ve felt like the plumber who has leaky pipes. It’s been frustrating to say the least, but for the last few months I’ve been working closely with Chris Burget of BullsandBeavers.com building and managing his website [...]
I’m hoping to hunt whitetails in Kansas this fall in order to check out a new outfitter. I know, my job sucks, but I do my best to keep my head up. I figured I would post the application process as a resource to our clients, so here ya go: From Kansas Department of Wildlife [...]
It’s almost time to start bear hunting here in Idaho. We can bait here so I always set a few up even though I prefer to spot and stalk with my bow. Here’s a little run down of our bait/trail camera experience a few years ago. In the spring of 2007, we purchased trail cameras [...]
Conclusion of: The Heartbreak Bull – Part I | Part II …I sat there in my blind for about an hour. Dejected. Depressed. Beaten. I could hear the two bulls above me. Taunting me. I decided I was going after them. I had nothing to lose, it was my last chance. I can’t remember how, [...]
Continued from – The Heartbreak Bull – Part I …Minutes later, we heard another bull screaming about 200 yards away and that scream sounded very familiar. Chills went up my back. Was this the same bull? We ran up to the top of a little hill and started glassing and there he was. He was [...]
This story is from my 2005 Idaho archery elk season. Well, it’s the end of an eventful, fun, incredible, yet disappointing hunting season. I saw some cool stuff and learned a lot. Things started out fast and then they got interesting. I guess I’ll just start from the beginning. Finances and time were an issue [...]
Marc Warnke and I went up to Orofino to turkey hunt for the last week of the season. He had a spot that he had been hunting for years and knew it well. I was excited to turkey hunt with somebody who knew what they were doing, all of my friends and I just sort [...]
My good friend Marc Warnke and I each have kids of similar ages. He has two sons (4 and 1) and I have two sons (7 and 4) and a little girl (2). We are both pretty committed dads, but there is always room for improvement, so we decided to make an obligation to get [...]
I just got back from South Dakota releasing Hungarian Partridge and doing some habitat management. If you’re wondering why we need to release Hungarian Partridge in South Dakota when we have so many pheasants, I wonder that myself sometimes too. But seriously, we are just trying to make our already outstanding bird hunting even better. [...]
I was excited about elk season this year. I hunted the first few days pretty hard and passed up a few cows and small bulls, but it was pretty slow compared to last year. On the third day, we got up early and worked a few bulls. I even got a shot at a REALLY, [...]
While we were living in Tempe, AZ, Coletti and I applied for every hunt that we could. I drew an archery javelina tag and she drew a premium late mule deer tag on the Arizona Strip unit 13B… go figure. Like they say, life isn’t fair. The javelina hunt was in January, so I had [...]
Yesterday we took our kids fishing with Marc Warnke and his family. The weather was great, the fish were biting and we had a great time. Here’s Coletti and Webb reeling in a big one. I’m trying to get Webb to give me a “high-five”, but he’s too busy mugging it up for the camera. [...]
We’re in South Dakota right now helping our outfitter here plant some shelter belts around his fields to improve his already phenomenal pheasant habitat. We have 1700 trees to re-plant There are approximately 30,000 trees in all, but we are re-planting the ones that have died. The species of trees include: chokecherry; nanking cherry; cherry; [...]
We donated this South Dakota pheasant hunt through the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Dan Wolfe bought the hunt at the auction and brought six of his friends. We would like to thank Dave Brucken of RMEF. We had a lot of fun and the hunting was smoking hot! Just look at that pile of birds [...]
Sheep Hunt #1: Idaho Bighorn Sheep hunting has been a challenge this year due to all of the smoke from forest fires. We (Cory and Jess) hunted in the smoke for seven days before finding a ram for our first hunter. He wasn’t huge, but we figured he would go about 160 or so. We [...]
Our first South Dakota pheasant hunt of the season was a success! We had eight hunters mostly from Vail, Colorado, including Chuck’s cousin and two nephews. We got our limit of birds every day. Ninety birds in three days! AWESOME! The corn is still standing, so it is bound to just get better once it [...]
Sometime, around a campfire you’ll have to ask me to tell you the story about this bear. I just don’t think it’s the right kind of story to be told online, although I wish I could… It’s quite a tale. I don’t think most people believe me but I don’t care, and hey, I had [...]
Sean R. shot this nice chocolate bear at 9:00 tonight. It was his first bear and he passed up a different chocolate bear the day before. It’s not a huge bear, but he is really pretty. See our black bear hunts
The first bear of the year met his demise tonight. I guided Master Archer Ron Elkin to this chocolate bear at around 6:00 out of a ground blind at thirteen yards This was his first bear and he was excited. More info on this hunt
We just got back from the IOGA Sportsman’s Show in Boise. On the last day of the show, George entered me (Cory) in the elk calling championship. I didn’t have any of my calls with me, so I bought one from the booth across the isle from us (Deep Timber Sounds) and went out to [...]
We just got back from a Northern Idaho Steelhead fishing trip this spring up the East Fork of No-Tellum Creek. Cory, Bruce, Mike, Chris, Ben and Brett all went up for the weekend. We had a great time and landed a TON of fish. Most of these fish were caught on fly rods too! Ben [...]
I guided bear hunters during the Idaho spring black bear season this year. We had a lot of fun, but we worked hard. After all of the hunters had gone home, there was still one evening left of the season and I decided to hunt one of the baits. One bear bait in particular showed [...]
Idaho spring black bear hunting this past spring was quite an adventure. We had above average snow pack this winter and the creeks were raging. As you can see, it ended up getting us in some trouble. If you haven’t yet, watch the video above before you read further. Close call huh? Normally this stream [...]
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