Hunt Camps

WE ARE DEDICATED TO BUILDING A DIVERSE AND EDUCATED COMMUNITY COMMITTED TO CONSERVING WILD PLACES AND WILDLIFE.

If you’re a new hunter or looking to learn to hunt a new species, register for one of our upcoming Hunt Camps. Our camps provide a solid introduction to hunting; firearm safety, walking quietly in the woods, and understanding animal movements. As the opportunity arises we will dive into field dressing and meat care. Along the way we will have conversations about hunting ethics, tactics, and conservation.

Each camp is unique and will cater to different skill sets, experience, and physical ability. We are excited to share the hunting experience with you.

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UPCOMING CAMPS

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Mentor to Mentee ratio will not exceed 1:3
All hunting specific gear will be provided
Hands on hunting experience
Firearms safety training and shooting practice
Demonstrations of wild game cooking, meat care & processing techniques
Introduction to the concepts of conservation
A focus on developing self-sufficiency in the outdoors
Conversations on the ethics of hunting, real-world hunting experiences and challenges

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Inside the Hunt to Eat Camps. From learning to handle a firearm and shot placement to honoring the life of an animal, we will be by your side the whole way. This year, Hunt to Eat is offering educational hunting and fishing camps. Deer, wild turkey, salt water fishing, and small game are just a few of the learning opportunities we offer. At camps, you will learn the skills needed to have a successful hunt and insight into building your own set of environmental ethics to use afield. With a little bit of good luck, you will also learn how to butcher an animal, get it ready for the freezer, and how to cook it up at home.

While sharing some good stories and laughs, we will actively create ceremony to foster growth and contemplation along your hunting journey. We understand that hunting is a sacred act; taking a life in order to sustain your own is a potent experience. We will honor it as such. At the end of the trip, we hope to have awakened a piece of wildness within you. Thanks to amazing mentors who are willing to teach, and you, a willing and active participant, upon completion of a hunt camp, you will have taken a huge step forward in becoming a hunter. You will have taken responsibility and supported a food system that is ecological and sustainable. You will know a place and yourself a little better.

Do you have the patience, experience, and creativity to make hunting a welcoming place? Want to facilitate life-changing experiences? Apply to be a Hunt Camp Educator.

VETERAN PROGRAM

There are an estimated 18 million veterans across the United States. We at Hunt to Eat recognize the sacrifices these service-members and their families have made to protect our freedoms and way of life. We are also keenly aware of the importance of getting into the outdoors and the healing effects it has been proven to have. Despite the many programs out there to help connect veterans to the outdoors, there are still not enough. Starting this year, Hunt to Eat will be connecting veterans to the outdoors through veteran-led clinics and hunts. For more information, please contact us.

TESTIMONIALS

Supportive team of mentors

``The Hunt to Eat Camp provided me with the basics I needed to deepen my interests in hunting with their awesome and supportive team of mentors. I was able to hunt my first deer, dress it, and butcher the meat for my family. Best of all, we engaged in eating venison with great meals throughout the weekend and learned about the importance of hunting to conservation efforts and well-being. I plan to take what I learned and apply it to my own family's land. I am already excited for my next, I go on my next hunt: spring turkeys.``

Ashley Vaughns

Life-long friends

``Being able to share my grandfather's piece of property with the Hunt to Eat community by mentoring first-time hunters is invaluable to me. It allows me to pass my grandpa's story and legacy. I know he would love seeing the life-changing experiences people have there just as much as I do. Having a new hunter's story begin on this family property means the world to me, but they also become part of the ground's story at that point and leave a part of them there as well. It's a very cool dynamic that I enjoy experiencing with every new hunter! The conversations you are around a hunting camp, especially a new hunter's first camp, really allow deep connection to each other and I have come away with life-long friends.``

Terry Laursen

Knowledge and ambition to keep hunting

``The Hunt to Eat crew was a perfect fit to run a mentored hunt at our family farm. The event was highly organized, well planned, and safety was of the utmost importance. Success was measured not only with fresh venison in the cooler, but more importantly, with four new mentee hunters that left with knowledge and ambition to keep hunting and pursuing wild adventures. My family and I were greatly rewarded with the feeling of accomplishment for our contribution toward conservation.``

Mark Haslam

Distilling a perspective with another human

``There is a very specific color I've maintained as my favorite: the orange glow that settles on a field of red grass or the dark limbs of canyon oaks. That shade has captivated me for as long as I can remember. It's only visible for a moment on clear, cool mornings.

Standing shoulder to shoulder with someone and sharing sentiments such as this and distilling a perspective with another human, especially one the world tells me is so much different than me, are the reasons why I am drawn to sharing our world of hunting with those who do not know it yet.``

Michael Stepp