by Alan Carter | Mar 26, 2018 | Hunting, Product Reviews
Last fall I had the opportunity to visit with Jim Hoffman of Hoffman Boots. I had seen an ad somewhere for his boots and decided to give him a call and find out what I could. What I thought would be a brief call turned into a great conversation about boots, Italy, his...
by Alan Carter | Feb 13, 2018 | Western Exposure
Not Every Hunt will be One to Call Home About When the grip of a long rocky mountain winter begins to fade, thoughts of spring in the mountains kindles the spirit. The winter is brutal snowy and cold here in the Bitterroot and I was aching to get up in the new...
by Alan Carter | Jan 30, 2018 | Western Exposure
One of the questions I am frequently asked is what should I hunt out west? Now I am an elk outfitter, so my natural response is elk, but it is what I rarely recommend to a newbie western hunter that wants to also introduce his children to western hunting. I recommend...
by Alan Carter | Jan 24, 2018 | Western Exposure
I grew up in the farm country of northern Illinois in the 70’s. To my family, the summer was a time of harvest, grapes, apples, you name it all went in the canner. I remember my mother spending countless hours over the stove canning vegetables and...
by Alan Carter | Jan 16, 2018 | Western Exposure
Recently I received the Under Armour Stealth Reaper Extreme Wool Jacket and pants to review and test in Montana’s harsh mountain conditions. To be fair, Under Armour (UA) designed this system primarily for tree stand hunting in 0-55 degree conditions, I decided...