25 Hunting Bloggers You Should Follow on Twitter
The following list is a great group of hunting bloggers who are active on Twitter, and who I recommend being on your list of friends to follow. This is not a list of top hunting bloggers, but those who have established a presence on Twitter and are worth following. They have been chosen for providing value to the industry, engaging their audience, and establishing a loyal following. Their influence on Twitter is a good reason alone for any new or current ‘Tweeters’ out there to give them a ‘follow’. Will Jenkins from The Will To Hunt helped me gather background information on many of the people in this list.
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Mark Huelsing
@soleadventure
Mark is currently the author of the Sole Adventure blog and has 1,370 followers on Twitter. He is married and a father of two children. Not only is he an outdoor writer but a hunter of several wild game species. In his writing you will immediately witness his passion for the outdoors, through stories of success and failure. He is currently a member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association, a contributor to Bow America, and a freelance writer for various outlets.
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Dustin Jones
@IDBoneCollector
Dustin currently has 518 followers on Twitter and is the author of the Idaho Bone Collector blog. He grew up in Eastern Idaho where he currently resides with his family. He values his family above anything and is an avid hunter and outdoorsman who writes about his adventures, and what he has learned along the way.
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Will Jenkins
@TheWillToHunt
Will Jenkins has a large following on Twitter with 2,032. He is currently the author of The Will to Hunt blog, and Managing Editor of Virginia Huntography. Will resides in Virginia with his wife and two children. Whenever he gets a chance you will find him shooting one of his bows in the backyard, checking trail cameras or reading other blogs about hunting. Will also contributes to Bow America. Will is also the Founder of Harnesses for Hunters.
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Albert Quackenbush
@SoCalBowhunter
Al currently is the author of The SoCal Bowhunter and has 579 followers on Twitter. He was raised in Western New York State and has been a bowhunter for over 27 years. His dad taught him how to shoot a bow when he was 9 yrs old and loved spending time with him in the woods. Al moved to Southern California in 2006, got married, and had a daughter who watches hunting shows with him.
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Nick Viau
@Nick_Viau
Nick is found blogging at Life and Longbows and has 737 followers on Twitter. Nick’s roots are in Northern Michigan and he grew up amongst friends and family who were avid woodsmen and hunters but simply never caught the bug himself. Buying a recurve changed all that for him. His initial goal was to try archery as a mere stress reliever but soon discovered a hunting community rich with morality and tradition associated with it. He knew he wanted to be a part of it. After shooting a recurve for several months, he gave in to the temptations of the longbow and has been hunting with one ever since.
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Lisa Metheny
@LisaMetheny
Lisa is influential on Twitter with 1,544 followers and you can find her blogging on her website at Outdoor Inspirations. Lisa currently sits on the Board of the Professional Outdoor Media Association, and is an award-winning outdoor writer, photographer, seminar speaker and outdoor skills instructor. She has over 250 articles published; conducts seminars on a woman’s participation in the outdoors, archery and hunting topics and holds several instructor certifications. She regularly teaches hunters education and archery classes and has become an advocate for promoting traditional outdoor recreation to families all across the United States. She is also an avid and accomplished hunter with many big game species to her credit and is a member of POMA, SEOPA, NRA, RMEF, NWTF and DU.
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Randy Hynes
@365whitetail
Randy’s blog is at 365 Whitetail and has 465 Twitter followers to date. He grew up in the woods of North Michigan. Every November since before he could remember, his parents packed the truck, pulled him out of school and headed to go “up-north” to hunt Whitetail. He now hunts in Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Illinois, Wyoming, Idaho and Indiana. His family is steeped in the hunting tradition. Whether it be waterfowl or whitetail, they simply enjoy being in God’s great outdoors. Randy is also a father of three boys and enjoys passing on the family tradition.
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Lisa Jane
@WritingHuntress
Lisa currently blogs at Hunt Like You’re Hungry and has 1,577 followers on Twitter. She grew up in Western New York and currently resides in North Carolina. Lisa graduated from Niagara University with a BA in English and a minor in Writing, summa cum laude. She is pursuing writing as a profession and has been published in an academic anthology on rhetoric for an article she co-wrote with one of her English professors. She is a Managing Editor at North Carolina Huntography.
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Michael Lee
@BackwoodsLife
Michael lives in Georgia and is the host of Backwoods Life TV. Michael’s Twitter influence spans 3,595 current followers and growing. Michael grew up hunting, fishing, and playing baseball and still talks about it through his writing. In college he started designing websites and has turned into a good business for him while mixing in outdoor TV, writing, and speaking.
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Tovar Cerulli
@tovarcerulli
Tovar has 1,168 followers on Twitter and is found on his site A Mindful Carnivore. Tovar is currently the author of The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance (Pegasus Books, February 2012). What is unique about him, is he spent over a decade as a vegetarian. He received his B.A. from Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research. In 2009, he was awarded a Graduate School Fellowship by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he studies communication. His M.A. thesis, “Meat and Meanings: Adult-Onset Hunters’ Cultural Discourses of the Hunt,” was completed in 2011. He is currently enrolled at UMass as a Ph.D. student and continues to focus his research on food, hunting, and human relationships with the natural world.
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Justin Morell
@FoggyMtnMeander
Justin currently has 782 followers on Twitter and can be found blogging at Foggy Mountain Meanderings. He currently resides in West Virginia where he hunts whitetail deer and eastern wild turkey… including fishing. Everything from tiny creek beds to rivers for trout, bass, and about anything that will bite, not to mention the occasional farm pond to kick back and relax with some friends. Justin has also established a new passion for foraging, and just recently picked, processed, and canned his first batch of blackberry jam. You can also read his reviews on gear and follow up on his recipes for cooking wild game or foraged goods. He just recently became Managing Editor for West Virgina Huntography.
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Rob Freyer
@BigBuckPW
Rob has over 830 followers on Twitter and is currently the Managing Editor for Maryland Huntography, Pro-Staff of Planet Whitetail, Field Staff of Apparition Scents, and a whitetail hunter and outdoorsman. He resides in Maryland with his wife and step-son, where he hunts non-stop. He sometimes is found hunting in urban areas to control deer population and is a 100% hardcore deer hunter.
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Rudy Hassall
@WindedBowhunter
Rudy can be found blogging at Winded Bowhunter and has 2,047 followers on Twitter. He writes about conservation, environmental issues, hunting updates, gear reviews, family, other related outdoor information and stories of his own personal adventures. He loves wildlife and has a passion for hunting the pure backcountry, and bowhunting the remote wildernesses of this great planet. He has tried to base his life and career around the things he loves the most: family, bowhunting the backcountry and traveling to Italy. Rudy grew up in Delaware and moved to Virginia when he was 14 and started bowhunting with a buddy from high school who introduced him to it. He killed his first deer with a PSE Polaris bow on opening day, the first time ever hunting.
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Chris Burget
@bullsandbeavers
Chris is from Sun Valley, Idaho and is the Founder of Bulls and Beavers, an online resource for outdoor sportsman, hunters, fisherman, and a social network to obtain news and meet others. He has an amazing 25,522 followers on Twitter.
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Tony Catalde
@beardedboar
Tony’s blog is called The Bearded Boar and he currently has 537 followers on Twitter. He resides North of Los Angeles, California and is all about bows, long guns, fly-fishing, spear-fishing, surfing, trail running and backpacking. He has 2 kids, a son “Chew” and a daughter “Checkers”. By day he is a Residential Construction Manager, and by 3:30pm he is a Western Athlete. Blacktail, Western Muley, Elk, Pig, Carp, Trout and more are always on the hit list in his home.
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Mark Kenyon
@WiredtoHunt
Mark currently has 4,834 followers on Twitter and blogs at Wired to Hunt. He graduated from Michigan State University with a business degree in Marketing and works doing online advertising and social media. Mark is also a member of the Bowhunting.com Pro Staff, Deer & Deer Hunting Web Pro Staff and a Quality Deer Management Association certified Deer Steward. Although his ultimate passion is the pursuit of whitetail, he is also an avid outdoorsman, loving everything from fishing and turkey hunting to backpacking and camping. Mark has chased his quarry across Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska and Pennsylvania.
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Tommy Ellis
@ghost1066
Tommy (also known as ‘Ghost’) currently blogs at Following Ghost and has 1,382 followers on Twitter. Tommy lives in Tennessee and is the Managing Editor for Tennessee Huntography. Not only is he an outdoorsman and writer, but a wildlife artist.
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Ryan Shoemaker
@BowhuntQuest
Ryan blogs at Bowhunt Quest and has 514 followers on Twitter. He is also part of the Huntography team, and is the Managing Editor for Ohio Huntography. Ryan has committed himself to motivation, determination, and drive. He owes his passion to his father who was once a very accomplished bowhunter and told him, “With bowhunting, it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.”
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Mike Hanback
@MikeHanback
Mike is currently the author of BIG DEER, and the host of BIG DEER TV on the Sportsman Channel. He was born and raised in Virginia and started hunting with his dad when he was only 5 years old. His first bow was a Bear recurve. His first job was Assistant Editor for the NRA’s American Hunter magazine, then moved up to Executive Editor and worked there for 10 years. For years he wrote for Outdoor Life and was the magazine’s Whitetail Deer Editor. In the Fall of 2011 he began filming BIG DEER TV, which will debut this Summer (2012), exclusively on the Sportsman Channel.
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Daniel E. Schmidt
@DanSchmidtDeer
Dan has 2,630 followers on Twitter and is Editor of Deer and Deer Hunting magazine, as well as a member of their TV show on Versus, and the Land of Whitetail TV show on Pursuit Channel. He is also the author of the book Whitetail Wisdom. In 2010, he was named as a Top 10 Fan Favorite Hunting Personality by Outdoors Magazine. You can also find him on his Whitetail Wisdom blog.
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Glynn
@A_Reel_Lady
With 1,781 followers on Twitter, you can find Glynn at her blog at A Reel Lady. She grew up in the rolling hills of Oklahoma on a small working cattle ranch and has spent a majority of her life on the back of a horse, or with a gun to her shoulder. She is happily married, and can find them together in a deer stand, or duck blind. She describes herself as “Wife, Hunter, Fisherwoman, Trapshooter, Dessert Lover, Hobby Cook…A Southern Belle who packs heat.”
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Tammy Sapp
@TammyDianeSapp
Tammy is a conservationist, hunter, angler, boater, shooter and Communications Director for Kalkomey Enterprises, Inc (a leader in outdoor safety education products), where she coordinates communications and business development efforts. She has 1,952 followers on Twitter and is currently Treasurer for the Professional Outdoor Media Association. Tammy currently lives in South Carolina and has worked as an outdoor writer, photographer and public relations professional throughout her 25-year career. She worked for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for more than a decade before accepting the challenge to grow the communications department for the National Wild Turkey Federation. As the NWTF’s vice president of communications, she supervised the production of six national magazines and played a leading role in launching three national television shows and several websites.
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Rudy Bachraty
@Huntography
Rudy currently has 2,136 followers on Twitter and is the owner of Huntography. He is a well known social media professional in the real estate industry, and was born and raised in New York. He later moved to Ft Collins with his wife and 3 kids to get away from the city life, after having read an article about Ft Collins being a top place to live. His passion is bowhunting, being outdoors, and his family.
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Emily
@FromtheDraw
Emily is from Colorado and blogs at From the Draw. She has 814 followers on Twitter and enjoys telling stories of her time spent in the woods. She says she is “Just a gal in CO who loves life… a good hunt, strong coffee, mountain sunsets, freshly painted toenails.” She enjoys hunting, fishing, and being in the outdoors with her husband.
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Bill Howard
@bhowardoutdoors
Bill has 352 followers on Twitter and is an instructor for the hunter education (IHEA) and bowhunter education (IBEP) programs in North Carolina. Bill is a lifetime member of the North Carolina Bowhunter’s Association (NCBA), chairman of the Bowhunter Certification Referral Service (BCRS) program, District 3 Wildlife Representative for the NCBA, and associate member of Pope and Young. He is also an official measurer for both the NCBA and Pope and Young. He publishes BowAmerica, a monthly e-magazine for bowhunters.
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This is a GREAT group of passionate hunters and writers. I’m honored to be included.
Tammy, you definitely deserve to be on the list. There were so many people it was hard to include everyone. I know I missed a bunch of great people.
Thanks Steve! I’m honored to be on the list. Bunch of great writers/bloggers and well, just great people on here!
Thanks for including me, Steve. I am pretty humbled to be listed among so many amazing folks.
Bill and Mark, it was humbling to actually build the list of great people and realize I am here among you all. So it is an honor for me as well.
Awesome list! All of my fans are here, plus picked up a few new folks
Thanks for compiling this!
Thanks for the mention!
Thanks for including me on this great list of folks. I am humbled!
Keep up the great work.
This is a great group! Good idea to put it all together!
I love that this is a list not only of great bloggers but also an amazing, supportive group of friends.
Thank you for the mention! I’m not worthy!!
LJ
Hey thanks everyone for stopping in. Definitely a good group of people here.
What a great group of folks, and many friends. Congrats everyone.
I am very humbled to be included on your list, Steve. I very much enjoy reading the Tweets and blogs by the others on this list.
Ahem…. helloooooo, I’m in the room….
LOL kidding – great list, Steve – will add the ones I’m not already following
Great List of some of the Top Bloggers out there!!!
I am very humbled to have been mentioned on this list. There are some top notch people on this list. Thanks again for including me.
I’m honored to be on this list with such great people! Some seriously awesome and inspirational people to follow on twitter and on their blogs!
Desert Rat, I don’t see you much on Twitter but you are in an upcoming article of mine I am working on
Dustin and Glynn, thanks for stopping in and checking out the list. Keep up the good work guys.
Dan and LLD you too.
Steve – you’re 100% correct. Twitter is probably the weakest of all my social media venues lol
Looks like a wonderful bunch, but here’s a serious question: with all these excellent blogs and the pace at which they are posted, how is anyone supposed to view them all? Plus all the YouTube videos, TV news shows, old fashioned magazines and newspapers… Seriously, I’m suffering info overload and surely I’m not alone. The internet/web is like being the editor for every outdoor magazine in the world and reading every submission. Who has time to sort the wheat from the chaff?
Yeah it certainly is information overload. Tough to keep up. There are some tools that help me out a lot. I mentioned one of the ideas in an article I just wrote which is linked right below here. I can maybe even write out a new article on some ways to save time. But most of these blogs you can subscribe to in an rss feed reader. Instead of navigating to all the blogs and checking on them, all I do is check my feed reader and if anyone updates their blog it comes to me in my reader. check out the article I did here:
http://outdoorbloggers.org/ask-friends-and-fellow-bloggers-to-subscribe-to-your-rss-feed/
Thanks for this. Now i could have great people to follow. Thanks so much!
There certainly are a lot of Great Blogs Out There. Some of them are members at http://www.SeeMeHunt.com, the interactive social network for hunters. I have already connected some of their RSS feeds to my site. I would be happy to connect all of their feeds to my site. All they have to do is join SeeMeHunt & shoot me an email.
I look forward to seeing you there
I now have some people to follow on twitter! Cool stuff.