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Nick Sweeny brings it home with Horn Star and the Great Outdoors

Well, about a year ago, me and one of my brothers and a buddy of mine, we had posted some photos on Facebook and some other social media sites. I’d never been really bullied or anything like that on social media for anything I’ve ever done. But it’s becoming more and more popular that the anti-hunters, the PETA people, and stuff like that, they really are starting to hound down on trophy hunters, recreational hunters, the outdoorsmen in general. Nick Sweeny brings it home with Horn Star and the Great Outdoors

I had a string of animals that I had posted and got a lot of negative feedback. So we wanted to create a place where hunting and fishermen can go, and it’s exclusively hunting and fishing. That way, you don’t have to sift through all the other stuff that you might not like on Facebook, or stuff that’s irrelevant to what you’re searching for. But if you’re an avid outdoorsman, hunter, fisherman, you go on Horn Star, and that’s what you’re going to get. Everything is outdoor, hunting, fishing related.

You’re not going to get the ridicule and stuff like that. It doesn’t matter if it’s a trophy, if it’s just a cow elk or a doe deer. You can pose with your photo, because it’s all about the memories, to me, and sharing that with everybody else. No hunt is ever the same. I refuse to believe that. I’ve been on thousands of hunts, and I take something away from every hunt I go on. And I believe every other hunter does the same. Nick Sweeny brings it home with Horn Star and the Great Outdoors

So we’ve created a place where you can go, and you can share those stories

So we’ve created a place where you can go, and you can share those stories, and you can get feedback, and you can get praise, and stuff like that from other avid hunters and fishermen. You know, I hunt mainly in Wyoming, but I love watching people from Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas, the Midwest, and the species that they get to hunt. The people from Alaska, Canada, and the species they get to hunt. I love that stuff, and I love being able to look at that stuff.

The problem is is on Instagram, Facebook, and stuff like that, I mean, I have to scroll through hundreds of pages before…unless it’s in the heart of hunting season, hundreds of pages before I get to see the actual stuff that I want to see. So that’s where Horn Star became founded. And we’re big time shed hunters, so that’s kind of where the name came from with Horn Star. Nick Sweeny brings it home with Horn Star and the Great Outdoors

Bruce: Thanks for that. And shed season, you’re in the Big Horn, so I don’t know how much snow is up top. But are you out in the plains, now, shed hunting?

Nick: You know, this year is a lot different than any other year for northern Wyoming. In the 34 years that I’ve lived here, this is the least amount of snow I’ve ever seen. So shed hunting for elk just began. We’re just starting to get out there this last week. Usually around St. Patrick’s Day is my target date for when everything starts dropping, but to each his own. Everybody has their own days. That’s just my preference.

the Horn Star website, it’s hornstar.net.

As far as the Horn Star website, it’s hornstar.net. You can get on there. You can sign up your free account. I have my own profile on there. You can contact me on my personal profile, or you can contact the Horn Star profile, which is managed by one of my partners. If you want to look us up on Facebook, we have a Facebook page as well. It’s Horn Star LLC.

There are a few other Horn Star spin offs, and there’s a TV show, and stuff like that. But our logo is an orange logo. We’re the only one out there. You can’t miss it. Instagram, it’s hornstar_llc. And you can also find us on Twitter, one word, Hornstar LLC.

So hunting, the tradition of it, it started from day one.

So hunting, the tradition of it, it started from day one. And I got involved with it when I was about five years old. And it’s just been something where I have just…it’s pretty much taken over my life. As far as September, October, November, I mean, I am all hunting. Even at work, I take off the whole month of September to be able to go archery hunting. And it’s something that stuck with me and my older brother, who lives in Wyoming as well. We live for it. It’s turned into a hobby, a passion, a lifestyle for us.

I’m starting to see a lot fewer mule deer and a lot more whitetail.

You know, I started noticing the increase, me personally, probably around 2005, 2006. I’m starting to see a lot fewer mule deer and a lot more whitetail. And the quality gets better every year. It’s becoming where…we used to drive down our backroads and stuff, and you had to worry about hitting a deer that’s hopping along, because mule deer hop a lot more than they run. Now, you’re dodging whitetails that are running 20, 30 miles an hour across the road. And there have been more and more every year.

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