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Accomplished mule deer hunter, Eastmans’ member, and Eastmans’ Elevated guest Ryan Lampers’ hammers a trophy buck in the backcountry in  some of  Idaho’s finest grey ghost country. Lampers is in for a surprise when the buck runs right toward him after absorbing a round from his 300 Win Mag! Read the entire story of Lampers’ heart-pounding hunt in the February/March issue of Eastmans’ Hunting Journal.

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Travel halfway around the world to hunt for a “gold-medal double” on giant Marco Polo rams with Guy Eastman in Tajikistan. Eastman and family friend, Bryan Martin hunt a giant world record class Marco Polo ram near the border of Afghanistan. To harvest a giant marco polo ram in Asia, hunters must overcome extreme altitudes, barren terrain, and must match wits with one of the most elusive and cunning big game animals on the planet. Hunting for giant Pamir rams is not for the faint of heart, and to hunt them on foot in a spike camp at 16,500 feet during November is more than most hunters can muster. Watch to see how these two mountain hunters challenge themselves in one of the toughest climates on earth to try and bring home one of the largest and most coveted big game prizes in all of the world. This Marco Polo sheep hunt is a dream three generations in the making for the Eastman family. Nearly 60 years in the making, Beyond the Grid TV heads to the nearly uninhabitable Pamir mountains of Tajikistan in this episode.

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Bowhunt elk in the heart of grizzly bear country in this episode of Beyond the Grid TV by Eastmans’. Bowhunter Dan Pickar travels deep into the wilderness of Wyoming to chase bull elk in early September. Hunting in grizzly bear habitat has Pickar taking extra precautions. Learn tips and tricks for staying safe and successfully hunting elk in grizzly bear habitat.

Special Thanks:
U.S. Forest Service Shoshone National Forest
Wyoming Game and Fish Department

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Two of the biggest names in western hunting have joined forces to bring you, the hunter, another high tech arrow for your quiver. Eastmans’ and onX Hunt have put their heads together to add the Eastmans’ Members Research Section (MRS) information as a layer for your onX 4.0 app.

The MRS will help you figure out where and how to apply for your tag. With over 2,000 hours of research by our staff annually, it will give you the leg up on the research you need to come out West and put the trophy of a lifetime on the ground. The MRS covers all 11 western states for deer, elk, antelope, sheep, moose and goat.

What this does is condense the MRS information into a digital platform that is right in the palm of your hand every time you pick up your phone or other mobile device. This makes finding draw odds or uncovering the best units in a given state all that much easier. It also adds a research and scouting tool to the already stellar onX Hunt platform.

For example, say you’re hunting mule deer in a general unit in Wyoming and stumble across an elk honey hole. You know this is where you need to be with an elk tag in your pocket. Until now you had to wait until you had access to the print version of Eastmans’ MRS to find out how long it would take you to draw a tag for your new hotspot. Now you can pin the exact location you’ve discovered and then turn on the Eastmans’ MRS layer to see soon you can hunt this spot for elk.

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” John Wooden

In the spirit of “doing” we sometimes run before we walk and therefore stumble and fall. Just recently we discovered an error in our attempt to bring you the most up to date application information for Arizona Elk and Antelope.

In EBJ 105 we reported that the online application deadline for Arizona Elk and Antelope is February 14th, 2018. This is incorrect information, the correct deadline for online Arizona Elk and Antelope is 11:59 PM Tuesday, February 13th, 2018. You still have time to get your Elk and Antelope applications in for the 2018 Arizona draw.

Again, we apologize for our mistake and any headaches this may have caused. Thank you for your understanding and best of luck in the draws.  

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MYSTERY RANCH is proud to announce that their Metcalf pack now comes in the Subalpine pattern from Gore! To make this announcement even better MYSTERY RANCH wanted to make sure we let all of you know that they now have a harness designed specifically with the ladies in mind, designed to fit a woman’s body perfectly. Sign up your friends, family and everyone in between as this pack is #builtforthemission!

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There are several important changes in the Colorado application process in 2018 that need your attention before you apply for 2018 licenses.

The CPW has gone to a single, integrated purchasing system. Hunters that were in the previous system must now look up their previous account and set up their profile in the new system. It is not automatically moved over and depends on you doing it yourself.

Every hunter, including youth, other members of families and members of hunting groups will need to have their own CPW account and each person must enter their own unique email, no exceptions. Your email becomes your account login along with a password you create.

All limited license applications are now paperless, including the trophy species that up until last year, could only be sent in by paper. You must apply at cpw.state.co.us

Good news – hunters for any species will not have to pay for the license(s) when they apply but they must still put in their payment information so that the card can be charged when they are successful in getting drawn.

For many of us, it is extremely hard to get the time to get boots on the ground to scout areas for elk.  This is especially true for all of you nonresidents out there. In addition, spending two or three days of our precious days is a waste of precious time. Time you could use to be actually hunting.

E-Scouting May Be Your Answer. 

E-Scouting is a way to scout from the comfort of your home well ahead of the start of the hunting season. That way, when the season finally begins you’re prepared to get out and hunt much quicker. With the help of Google Earth’s free technology and a few other e-resources, you can now scout for elk from your computer. Other information could come in handy like harvest reports, fire history, and rainfall statistics.  However, for now, we are going to focus on finding likely honey hole by using Google Earth to e-scouting for elk in Wyoming.

Google Earth For Your E-scouting Needs When Hunting Elk In Wyoming

Google Earth is a popular and free program that every hunter should be using. Google Earth allows you to explore any area in Wyoming, or anywhere else, in 3D using satellite imagery. With this program, you can start looking for and identifying the best elk spots.  There are many tools that come bundled in the software that will be helpful for locating and marking watering, bedding, and feeding areas used by elk. You will then be able to upload or copy the GPS coordinates for the areas you found on Google Earth to a hand-held GPS unit.  If you are not a GPS person, you can print maps.

Marking your locations is fairly simple.  To add a mark you need to click “Add Placemark” and move the waypoint to that spot on the map. You will need to change the name of the mark to something that is clear and makes it easy to know what the mark points to. Examples of names are “Water”, “Food”, and “Cover”.  Giving the marks numbers after the name is optional but it helps to make the waypoints easier to read.Another helpful hint is to lay out your expected route to an area and save it on Google Earth.  You will be able to upload this to your GPS also and it will be really helpful getting to your spot in the dark.

How To Add A Placemark On A Water Hole

Opening a Placemark

Every hunter is looking for the secret sauce that allows someone to draw as many tags as possible on a regular basis. The problem with secret sauces is that they usually don’t actually exist. Grill masters recipes vary slightly but the winners in pit challenges are the cooks who can appeal to the widest number of contest judges. Regardless of this simple fact the secrets are chased and held tighter to the chest every year looking for an edge over the competition.

Byron Oldham allegedly found a secret sauce to acquiring tags across the West for himself and possibly others. Based on charges filed in Wyoming his recipe for success involved hacking the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s third party application system. He used a script that allowed him to apply for two moose tags in 2016 when only one application per person is allowed.

Upon further investigation by officials in Wyoming there was even more tampering with the system involving 99 sheep applications in one minute. The result of this investigation could lead to three years of jail time.

In our hunting world the perceived secret sauce is figuring out how to draw as many hard to draw tags as possible. The reality is that there isn’t a secret sauce for tag applications and good old fashioned application strategy and point building is the only guarantee.  The question that still needs to be answered is how many states has he been able to apply some sort of script to and acquire hard to draw tags? Did his tag application service do this for others? If someone used the Pointhunter app was their personal data compromised in some way?

All of the “secret sauce” recipes will be laid out for the public to see soon enough.