With the new year only a few days away, we’re reflecting on the past year and looking forward to the next. Each week, we publish an article that we feel will be relevant to the modern-day hunter and we’ve compiled our top 5 from 2023. Thanks for following along and for making this year our best year ever!
#1
Time to Start Planning Your 2024 Elk Hunt
By: Travis Baker, Senior Consultant
Elk hunts are, without a doubt, our most popular North American big game offering. For some, it’s an annual hunt with plenty of options to consider—from weapons to locations to species. Whether it’s a private land hunt from a deluxe lodge or a wilderness horseback hunt from a tent camp, rest assured that our team will have you covered.
#2
The Truth About Wyoming
By: Jeremy Ivie, TAGS Consultant
You have probably heard the rumors swirling about how the state of Wyoming has severely cut its non-resident tag quota and about the winter of 2022–2023 decimating its big game populations. All of this chatter may have you questioning your application strategy in Wyoming. WTA TAGS still strongly recommends staying the course in Wyoming. Click to learn why.
#3
The Challenge of Dall Sheep
By: Garrett Wall, Gunwerks Chief Brand Officer
After five years of planning, I was peering over the edge of a remote Yukon Range ridge at a full-curl Dall sheep ram 500 yards below. This moment had been a long, anxious time coming. It started in 2018 when I called Ryan Watchorn at WTA. I told him I’d like to try to get a sheep. I’d been working at Gunwerks for seven or eight years and had hunted a lot of animals out West. I wouldn’t say I was bitten by the sheep bug that afflicts some hunters, but I knew guys at Gunwerks who had done it and it looked like a real challenge.
#4
Blazing Paddles: The Moose Hunt of a Lifetime
By: James Zandstra, The Fair Chase
I’ve been captivated by the allure of hunting in remote, wild places like Alaska and northern Canada ever since I was a kid. The stories I read in magazines and books weren’t just tales, they were adventures that felt like they called directly to me. Among these, the stories surrounding moose hunting in the wilderness of North America were my favorites. They painted a picture of a world so incredibly different from my own, chasing the largest member of the deer family. It was a dream that seemed just out of reach. I never really believed I’d get the chance to experience it myself, but life has a funny way of turning dreams into reality.
#5
Mountain Goat Hunting with Worldwide Trophy Adventures
By: Chris Bee, WTA Ambassador and Mathews Professional Archer
I started thinking about hunting mountain goats after talking to hunters who’d done it. I talk to a lot of people, usually other hunters, and everyone said that mountain goat hunting is the most underrated bowhunting adventure. I believe it now. Short, sweet, and grueling. That describes my mountain goat hunt.
