A TRADITION WE'VE KEPT QUIET. NOT ANYMORE.

Big Ideas,
Real Impact.

The Montana Vet Program Legacy Sportsman gives veterans and their children mentored hunting and fishing experiences that are built to sharpen human performance, boost physical fitness, and foster self sustainability and tough minded healing. Through:

  • disciplined outdoor training

  • conservation stewardship

  • skill based mentorship

participants push their limits, rebuild purpose, and forge unshakable resilience, strength, and confidence.

These programs teach practical skills and the values of preparedness, responsibility, and excellence, ensuring the traditions of hunting and fishing, and the warrior ethos they embody, are preserved and passed on to future generations.

Person holding a blood-stained knife while working on a patient, with a medical chart on the ground.

AAR · After Action Review

The debrief, in their own words.

THE LINEUP

Sportsman is growing beyond the annual elk hunt into a full slate of hunting opportunities for veterans and their children.

Dog carrying a bird in its mouth in a grassy field.

MONTANA UPLAND BIRD HUNT

Two hunters in camouflage clothing and orange vests are in an open terrain with dry bushes. One is standing and holding a rifle, while the other is kneeling, petting a deer's head, which lies on the ground.

MONTANA BIG GAME HUNT

Close-up of a person's feet with detailed, textured skin and claws, with feathers attached at the ankle, on a white surface.

COLORADO BIRD HUNT

Person standing barefoot on a rock by a lake, holding a fishing rod with a fish caught on the line, with a forest and cloudy sky in the background.

FISHING

Three people in orange safety vests standing and crouching on a grassy hillside with bushes and tall pine trees in the background on an overcast day.

WHY DO WE DO THIS?

You can tell a kid you're strong. It means more when they watch you do it. These hunts give veterans a chance to lead their own children the way they once led their unit, and give kids a memory with their veteran that no classroom or living room can replicate. For a Gold Star child like Wyatt, it's a chance to stand beside someone who carries the same weight his father did, and know he's not carrying it alone.

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LOOKING AHEAD

Sportsman has grown carefully and quietly for years. That's changing. Expect more hunts, a fishing program on the way, and a program built to match the same standard as everything else Montana Vet Program runs.