What We'll Cover
Day 1: Classroom and Range Day
- Rifles and optics
- Understanding bullets selection
- Kinetic energy and trajectory
- Compiling DOPE
- Shooting positions
- Field rests
- Dry fire
- Wind holds
- Game animal Anatomy
- Archery Fundamentals
- Range session
Day 2: Into the Field
- Loading the pack
- Necessary equipment
- Choosing a campsite
- Shelter options
- Paracord knots and hitches
- Glassing tools
- Glassing techniques Utilizing OnX
Day 3.1: Mock Hunt
- Morning Glassing
- Planning a stalk
- Estimating distance
- Utilizing Range Finders
Day 3.2 : Evening Mock Hunt
- Time management
- Stalk Progression
- Wind and Thermals
- Animal bedding behaviors
- Animal movement behaviors
- Ethics
- Evening Glassing
- Night time Navigation techniques
Day 4.1: The Return
- Morning Glass session
- Calling Elk
- Tracking and Blood Trailing
- Breaking down camp
- Forest regulations
Day 4.2: Back to Lodge
- Skin and cape Goat/Sheep
- Quartering process
- Deboning process
- Proof of sex
- Common game violations
- Barbecue
This trip includes time in the field but does not include hunting – For seminars that include a hunt check these out.
Course Location:
1 hour from Riverton, WY airport
1 hour and 45 minutes from Jackson Hole, WY airport
Basic accommodations provided. Clients can stay the night before the course starts and the night after it ends.
July 20th-23th, 2025 $2,900 per client – During these dates both Cliff and Cade will be teaching.
August 2nd-5th, 2025 $2,900 per client – During these dates both Cliff and Cade will be teaching.
Classes include 5-hours of online seminar/prep. These calls will be recorded and available for replay.
These are small classes, so availability is highly limited.
Prerequisites
- All participants must be capable of hiking 3-4 miles at elevation, with a backpack. We view hunting as an active activity and each day of the seminar will contain physical activity.
- Students must have their own backpack hunting gear – sleeping bag, clothing, shelter/tarp/tent, backpack, sleeping pad, headlamp, etc… A gear list will be provided.
- Gun Werks rifles and ammo will be provided for hunters needing to borrow a rifle.