Blog - Ivory & Antler Outfitters

January 22, 2020 by Earl Oesterling

Finding the right outfitter for your needs can be tricky, doing your homework will pay off in the long run!

January 16, 2020 by Earl Oesterling

2019 Year End Recap/2020 Outlook

January 15, 2020 by Earl Oesterling

It's official, Colorado will vote in November on initiative 107 - Forced Colorado Wolf Introduction.

July 5, 2019 by Earl Oesterling

The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project and their anti-hunting partners are working hard to get a very important initiative on the ballot here in Colorado. These initiatives will allow the public to vote on using taxpayer's money along with funds generated from the sale of hunting licensees to release close to 1000 wolves in Colorado. We need everyone's help to try to stop both these initiatives, see below for how you can help!

June 5, 2019 by Earl Oesterling

The 2019 Colorado Limited License Draw Results Posted On-Line between June 3 and June 7

June 4, 2019 by Earl Oesterling

Things are looking great for Summer/Fall in the wilds of Colorado  

May 31, 2019 by Earl Oesterling

Check out the final numbers for our 2019 Turkey Season!

May 28, 2019 by Earl Oesterling

Colorado Forced Wolf Introduction is underway!!!

January 15, 2019 by Earl Oesterling

Check out our new Trusted Partner SKRE Extreme Mountain Gear!!!! 

December 26, 2018 by Earl

Although we faced some big challenges on the ranch this year, we had one of our best years ever from the standpoint of opportunity Rate (90.0%). Early in the year we faced two major forest fires, one of which was burning less than 10 miles from our western leases, the air was smoked filled and nothing like trying to hunt with ash raining down and temperatures well above average, this made hunting conditions as tough as we have ever seen them, but that didn't stop the elk from their normal routine. We had to pick and choose our hunting locations all based on the wind direction, but there were elk going crazy all over our ranches, the smoke did not seem to bother them in any way!

Colorado's drought did have a negative effect on some of our early cow hunts, hot temps, lack of water, and finally the full moon phase all combined to slow the hunting way down for two of our groups, we still managed to harvest our fair share of cows, however a couple clients had a hard time finding the cow elk herds late in August. Thankfully, the snows showed up in early October and we had a lot of action in all the rifle season.

July 13, 2018 by Earl Oesterling

Great news, the Feds are considering dropping wolves from legal protections across the lower 48 states. Although, they have tried this before, it looks like they have a great chance on getting this to pass this time.

July 13, 2018 by Earl Oesterling

If you are not aware, CPW (Colorado Parks and Wildlife) made some significant changes to the limited licenses application process this year. In the past, anyone applying for a limited license in Colorado had to pay for the cost of the license when they applied, if unsuccessful those monies were refunded to the person’s credit card.

July 13, 2018 by Earl Oesterling

Summer is here, and it's hot and dry here in Colorado, I am sure you have all herd there are several wildfires burning across Colorado/Wyoming/Utah. The Beaver Creek Fire is the closest fire to our operation, and it is around 60 miles away from our main operations so there is no danger at this point of this fire effecting our operation in anyway. The good news is we have the remnants of Hurricane Bud starting to flow into Colorado and we will see between 1-2 inches of rain over the weekend, so much needed moisture is on the way!!!

July 13, 2018 by Earl Oesterling

Today's subject deals with preparing for your hunt, I want to give you all some tips on equipment, physically preparing for your hunt, and a couple other quick tips that will help you make the most of your trip out west this fall!

July 4, 2018 by Earl Oesterling

We had a very successful turkey season. Early season featured one of the most insane opening days I have every had guiding or hunt turkeys for myself.

March 22, 2018 by Earl Osterling

The Colorado big game application deadline is April 3rd, 2018. All application corrections must be submitted by April 3rd, 2018.

March 21, 2018 by Earl Osterling

If your hunting in the western united states, your hunt is closer than you think. We see clients every year that show up at the lodge and are not prepared for their hunt.

December 15, 2017 by Earl Oesterling

Happy Holidays!!! We hope everyone is looking forward to a safe and happy holiday season!! We are finally all closed for the season except for our Mountain Lion Clients, it was a great season and we hope our good fortune continues into March!

January 8, 2017 by Earl Oesterling

We hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July!!!! Time is moving right along; every year seems to get shorter and go by faster. The team has been extremely busy preparing for the season which opens in a little over a month. I know, it’s crazy, we will be guiding our first group in 4 weeks!!!

January 8, 2017 by Earl Oesterling

Colorado is under siege from several environmental groups looking to introduce over a thousand wolves throughout the state. They are pushing hard along the front range, especially in Denver and Boulder, but for now they are not making many inroads, that does not stop them from running very expensive advertising on all major media channels.