News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 31, 2018Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Ryan Callaghan of First Lite, fly fishing guide/businesswoman Hilary Hutcheson and trial attorney Tom McGraw join leadership of rapidly growing sportsmen’s group MISSOULA, Mont. – Leaders in the hunting and angling community and enthusiastic public lands users have joined the national board of directors of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers: Ryan Callaghan, First Lite director of public ...

Click... “you’ve gotta be kidding me!?”, Adam whispered from behind his binoculars, trying to contain his laughter. “Shut up!” I recanted, as I chambered the round that I had forgotten before the first trigger pull. Being raised in Minnesota, and having private land available to my family, we rarely used public land. Public land hunting conjured up images of pulling up your binoculars and being met in your gaze by the barrel of a rifle as someone looked at you through their scope. It ...

"We have people challenge us, saying we're elitists and green decoys, saying we're fakers and fronts for something. I say come to our Rendezvous. Throw a nickel in the air. If it doesn't land on a badass with a story that will humble you, I'd be shocked."--Ryan Busse >> Join us at this year's BHA Rendezvous, April 12-14th, in Boise, Idaho!  Hal Herring sits down with Ryan Busse, BHA National Board Chair. Busse lives in Kalispell, Montana and he's an avid fisherman, bird dog lover, and elk ...

Minnesota Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Appoint Two New Board Members The Minnesota chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently appointed two new board members. Jamie Carlson and Dan Born are both veterans and accomplished hunters/outdoorsmen. Their appointments come at a time of rapid growth for the Minnesota chapter, which saw its membership increase by over 150% in 2017. And a January 4, 2018, chapter Pint Night at Unmapped Brewing in Minnetonka set an attendance record for ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently appointed Russell Bassett, a U.S. Army veteran, to serve as the chapter’s Front Range Sponsor/Events Coordinator. Russ was born in the Panama Canal Zone when it was a U.S. territory, raised in Missouri and Nebraska, shipped all over the country and world by the U.S. Army (including a tour in Iraq, following in the footsteps of his father, who served in Korea), then spent ten years in Oregon before moving to Colorado during ...