Follow a Western Big Game Hunter

Team Outback Outdoors blogs often throughout the season to share with you the tips and tactics we use that make us successful western big game hunters. The blog covers topics like habitat, preseason training, bow tuning, gear choice, equipment maintenance, scouting, and stories from the field.

You can choose to follow one or all of us throughout the season and hopefully gain a little insight into the mind of a western big game hunter! If you’d like to ask specific hunting tips questions, you can do that on our “Ask an Expert” page.

 

 

Off Season For The Outback Outdoors Team

by , posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2012

There really is not an off season for me at Outback Outdoors. Once the winter months are upon us I usually start the show and seminar season. I have to make ends meet throughout the winter and this is a great way of doing it. I enjoy traveling around the West and attending some of (continue reading...)

Eastern Colorado Archery Deer

by , posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012

It was two weeks before Christmas and I found myself on a plane flying to Colorado.  Early in 2011, Trevon and Adam contacted me and extended an invitation to join them on their annual Colorado plains archery deer hunt. I was honored that they would invite me on a hunt that has been their tradition for (continue reading...)

Complete Western Hunter

by , posted on Sunday, December 11th, 2011

The Outback Outdoors team lives for the hunt and we are lucky to get to chase our dreams. One of the many reasons why I love to live out West is the wide variety of game I can hunt, the different styles and ways to hunt them and the changing seasons and weapons used. This (continue reading...)

UPDATE – Outback Outdoors Bow Giveaway Winner – REALLY Scores!

by , posted on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Here is an update from our 1st Quarter Bow Giveaway for 2011 winner Andrew Basabe. He scored this fall with his new Hoyt bow he won on Outback Outdoors 1st Quarter Giveaway… Congrats again Andrew… Here is the story! When I received my residency in Montana, all I could think about was how exciting the (continue reading...)

Alaska Disaster Part Two- Sheep Hunting

by , posted on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

On part two of my blog I will talk briefly about gear, what to expect on a sheep hunt and the do’s and don’ts of what I have experienced in the far North.  Sheep hunting can be one of the most exciting hunts you can ever imagine. The remote locations where these animals live, the (continue reading...)

Wyoming Elk, Stalking Strategy put to the Test

by , posted on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

We needed to cover over three hundred yards in the wide open if we wanted to catch up to the herd.  The ankle high sage would only cover our Kenetrek boots so now it was time to put our gear to the test.  With three of us in a line perpendicular to the elk we used a Montana Decoy “Cow (continue reading...)

Colorado Elk Season Rolls On

by , posted on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

The 2011 elk season rolls on here at Outback Outdoors and sometimes we aren’t always the ones actually pulling the trigger. As most of you know all of us at OO are hardcore hunters at heart but we also spend a lot of time guiding other hunters. The OO crew met up on Big Mountain (continue reading...)

Outback Outdoors Rolls On – Adam Wells’ 2011 CO Archery Elk

by , posted on Monday, September 26th, 2011

The 2011 Colorado Archery elk season started off very slow, the rut was late and the bulls didn’t show up in any numbers until the last week of the season.  I had three days to hunt this last week and all I can say is “WOW” the elk were going crazy, the rut was in (continue reading...)

Outback Outdoors Scores Again – Trev’s Wyoming Public Land Bull Elk

by , posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

With archery elk season in full swing and one antelope buck bow kill in the books, I headed to meet good buddy Quentin Smith owner of QRS Outdoor Specialties at their lodge on the Split Rock Ranch north of Rawlins, Wyoming for some archery elk hunting. This tag took me a LONG time to draw (continue reading...)

SNEAK PREVIEW – California Archery Black Bear – Dave Beronio

by , posted on Monday, September 12th, 2011

I thought I’d wet your whistle with a preview of one of the most exciting webisodes we have ever had on Outback Outdoors. You wont want to miss this show as Dave Beronio and cameraman Chris Callinan spot and stalk big bruins in the high country of the Sierras in California. After months of trail (continue reading...)