Modern Huntsman Volume Five has arrived and it’s beautiful! The theme for this volume is TRADITION! In my piece titled “Young Guns” I share some of my thoughts on the topic. You can claim a hardcopy of this book (which you will not regret) but if money is running on the tight side these days, please pop over to the Modern Huntsman website where

“Young Guns”

was published today. Thank you to everyone here who has supported Modern Huntsman over the past couple of years. This book is about creating conversation on the topics of hunting and conservation but you don’t need to be a conservationist or hunter to enjoy the stories being told within these pages. If you love to be outside, if you value public land, if you appreciate wildlife and wide open spaces, this book is for you.

Good morning friends!

I failed to mention the first volume of Modern Huntsman in this space when it hit the shelves last year but I’m making the time to mention Volume 2 which is fresh off the printing presses and available to order as I type this.  I contributed two written pieces to the first volume, a smattering of other images that were peppered throughout the book and was also the featured artist!  More importantly, my co-contributers offered up incredible insights, stories and imagery that put my work to shame.  Volume 1 is still available for order and is a beautiful, intelligent, wonderfully designed book you’ll keep in your personal library for years to come.

Modern Huntsman Volume 2 bears down on the topic of public lands both here in North America but also in a global sense.  I contributed a piece of prose that is, in essence, a gentle quartet that sings gratitude for my seasonal experiences on the public lands that I immerse myself in on a daily basis here in my wild Idaho.  Other contributions positively gleam with intelligence, scientific fact and general revelations that will give you hope for our wild places.  I hope you consider claiming a copy of the book for yourself or a friend or a loved one.  It’s for everyone everywhere, not just people who practice the craft of hunting (at the heart of which is conservation).

In the meanwhile, I am giving away five copies on my Instagram account.  Please swing by and drop your name in the hat!

Thank you to everyone who has supported this publication.  Your support ensures future volumes go to print, ensures the storytelling and educational information this magazine provides can continue and evolve and grow, and your support directly pays contributors for their photography and writing efforts which helps to defeat the hyper-romanticized myth of the starving artist!!!  Help feed us so we can feed your minds and souls.  Give and receive alongside us and be uplifted.  That’s art.  That’s storytelling.  That’s work well done.