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JANUARY 21st, 2025: Each week here at Hunt Nation, we assign one of our hunting and fishing experts to handle your phone calls. We encourage you to call and ask ANY questions you might have about our hunting and fishing trips. We want to help! Agent Brian Stecklein will be assisting you this week.

CALL US: 307-637-5495 EMAIL: info@hunt-nation.com

Hunt Nation will have 4 of our consultants at the SCI show in Nashville, January 22-25, 2025. Set up a time to meet Don, Derek, John or Eddie. They would be happy to chat with any of you that are also attending the show.  See their direct phone numbers at the bottom of this newsletter.

2 licenses remaining for February 2025.

You may never see this again! Free Range Desert Bighorn Sheep with $20,000 refunded if no sheep is harvested or wounded. 

For most of us, a desert sheep hunt represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and if you cannot draw a tag in the American southwest, a guided hunt in Mexico may be the only way to experience this hunt. Conducted on numerous large ranches spanning more than 80,000 acres, this outfitter offers one of the best free-range options with guaranteed opportunity (up to three missed shots) on desert sheep hunts. Dates are flexible, so clients can fly to Tucson for pickup after a good ram has been found. The first 4 rams this season have averaged 174 5/8. 

This is a young outfitter that is doing everything right. We have been working with him for many years. This hunt will take place on private land in southeastern Wyoming.



Private land leases produce multiple trophies every year. Totaling near 300,000 acres and 5 different hunt units. Antelope hunts offer a 99% success rate. The 2024 season they were 100% on their antelope hunts including 11 for 11 archery antelope. Four of which went over 75 inch, one 82 incher.

Whether you are a first timer or a seasoned veteran, we have the hunt for you! We offer both archery and rifle hunts during the antelope season. You will have the option of early season archery antelope hunting over watering holes, all the way through antelope rifle season at the end of October. During your Wyoming antelope hunt, you will have the option of staying at our newly renovated lodge, or one of our roomy cabins. Our cabins, located on the same property as our lodge, are equipped with all the utilities and amenities that you would expect your home to have. We offer our antelope hunts with two hunters per guide. If you desire a one on one with some of the finest guides in Wyoming, please request at the time of booking.

Hunt the most remote wilderness area in the Lower 48!

We love hunting bull elk with a rifle when they are vocal and screaming. This Wyoming outfitter in the Thorofare area of northwest Wyoming (Elk Area 60, Western Region) has been consistently running between 70% and 85% dead on the ground bulls in the 300” plus class.

You will be rifle hunting during the bugle season – not even legal in most States! It sure helps when a big bull screams at you, “Hey, I’m over here!”, and you have a 300-yard rifle in your hands. Great hunting for archery hunters as well; these bulls can be very aggressive.

This guide area borders southeastern corner of the Yellowstone National Park. This is the famed Thorofare Area, so named by Teddy Roosevelt for the heavy animal traffic he saw there.

IF YOU HAVE AT LEAST 5 PREFERENCE POINTS FOR ELK GIVE US A CALL!!

This northwest New Mexico (around Chama) outfitter has been featured on numerous television shows with many well-known hunting celebrities. We have sent countless clients to him over the 15+ years we’ve been working with him, with very high success. He is one of our absolute favorites, with a reputation for honesty, hard work and producing elk. This is a high-success hunt for 5x5 and 6x6 bulls. Most will be 270”-290”, with a few 300+”. Most are solid mature bulls, but every year is different, usually due to moisture.

Many of the ranches this outfitter hunts are lower-lying private ground with areas of parks and meadows, scattered water tanks, and conifers, making for fairly easy terrain for those of us who can’t quite climb the way we once could. But he has properties on a few different migration corridors, and bit of snow can make for a really great hunt as the elk start moving and “fresh” bulls wander onto these ranches. In fact, they sometimes take some of their biggest bulls of the year on their late-season hunts.

We’ve been booking deer hunters with this fine outfitter for many years, but his area’s turkey population (mostly Merriam’s) has exploded in recent years, and he now offers a terrific turkey hunt too.

It is in northwest Idaho, near Kooskia, in the Clearwater River area. You will be hunting 1,200 acres of prime private turkey habitat, and also have access to several thousand acres of adjacent BLM land. These hunts are self-guided, but they will show you where to hunt. Our previous clients have reported an abundance of birds and rated everything as “Excellent”.

This outfitter provides one of the more challenging bison hunts in the country, we believe. These bison run on 7,000 acres of rolling hills, canyons and prairie, much like their ancestors did, and the fencing is just 4- and 5-strand barbed wire (rather than high game-proof fenced), so trophy bulls should be eligible for inclusion in the North America 29 Super Slam, as well as SCI. They are about 500 in number and you will need to stalk them. You pick the size of animal you wish to hunt, and you can use archery, black powder, rifle, or pistol. Whatever your weapon of choice, you will earn your trophy – you are not shooting fish in a barrel here. Of course, bison are a plains animal, normally quite visible, so please bear that in mind. Multiple stalks are often needed.

The hunts are conducted from mid-December to the end of February when the hides are in the best condition (there is no difference in the quality of the hunting or the hides from the start to the end of that time). He usually allows you two days, but will give you a third day if needed, which we like a bunch. Success is 100%, and the outfitter will not let you leave without your bison trophy.

Included: Meals and lodging, Guiding, Photo set up, Aberdeen, SD airport pick up/drop off, Field prep, and delivery to processer (processing generally takes up to 2 days)

Processing by their professional butcher runs between $400 and $900 depending upon the size of the bison.

This long-time outfitter hunts about 200,000 acres of private land in northeastern Wyoming and has been producing some superb trophies for our clients for many years. He has 30 years in the business, and his guides are truly excellent with many years’ experience hunting these ranches. These guys will hunt hard for you and pull out all the stops. Lodging is in a 5 bedroom 2-storey lodge with hot showers and good meals served family style.

His antelope can be hunted with either gun or bow (some ranches are archery-only). Size ranges from 13-15 inches, with some opportunities at trophies up to 16 inches.

He hunts Area 17, 23, 24, and 26 all of which can be drawn with zero to one preference points (Special License), apply by May 31, but booking now is essential for the best dates.

If you have dreamed of putting a big bull moose on the wall but Alaska or the Yukon is just not in the budget, you need to take a hard look at northern Manitoba. Simply put, this area produces some big bulls at about 1/3 the price of those other destinations!

This family-owned and operated outfitting business enjoys a high percentage of repeat clients. Their fly-in moose hunts are based out of cabin or tent camps on various remote lakes in northern Manitoba, which makes resident hunting pressure almost non-existent. You will be the only hunters on the lake, and hunting is via small motorized boats, with lots of calling and listening for lovesick bulls at strategic locations.

A long-time west coast secret, the incredible fishery that is Mexico’s Magdalena Bay is attracting ever increasing international attention. They offer all-inclusive trips so you have nothing to worry about except enjoying your vacation. The lodge is well maintained, has a swimming pool, hot tub, huge garage, workshop, tackle room, outside dining area, and more.

The striped marlin fishery at Magdalena Bay is the best there is! When you see the bait show with striped marlin, sea lions, dorado, tuna and whales, it like a National Geographic movie, incredible fishery! It is undeniably and indisputably the best striped marlin fishing grounds with all records of most marlin caught in a day. It’s not uncommon for charters to boat well over 100 marlin in a day. And the inshore fishery offers a variety of habitats and species. Clients often encounter 10 or more species in a single day catching sierra, corvina, halibut, roosterfish, pargo, Golden Trevalle, grouper, pompano, trigger fish, bay bass, snook, jack crevalle, and much more. The local mangroves and the island offer a habitat and fishery that is absolutely phenomenal for light tackle and fly fishing.