Episode 14

American Outdoor News - Founder Chris Avena

Published on: 13th June, 2024

I have been an outdoorsman for as long as I can remember going on camping trips with family. My uncle took me on my first hunting trip when I was 16 and the rest is history.

 I started a website called SeeMeHunt.com way back in the early 2000's. It was supposed to be a social network for hunters, but it never really caught on like I thought that it would.

But that was my introduction to the Outdoor Industry. I didn’t even know that it was an industry prior to that. SeeMeHunt was more of a hobby than a business though. It did afford me the opportunity to meet all of the right people in the outdoor industry. -I met plenty of outdoor personalities, manufacturers, and the like.

Then in 2018, I started American Outdoor News. Online magazine https://www.americanoutdoornews.com/choose-magazine/

publishing was all new to me. Admittedly, I was completely out of my element, but I worked my way through it and learned as I went along. American Outdoor News has grown substantially since its beginning, and I am very excited for what the future holds for us.

We were recently awarded the Pinnacle Award for Outstanding

Achievement for Digital Magazine by POMA &  was the first runner-up

for Best Hunting Podcast by AGLOW.

We recently presented our first annual Lifetime Achievement award during the Dallas Safari Club Convention to one of the outdoor world's most iconic hunters, Mr. Larry Weishuhn. This has been a look at great things to follow for 2024.


 

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Bruce's outdoor journey began in the hardwoods and streams of Rhode Island hunting squirrels, rabbits, ruffed grouse and fishing for brook trout and bass. He moved to Long Island and surfed fish for strippers and blues along the Atlantic coast.

It wasn't until he went to college in Wisconsin that he found his passion, Whitetail deer. 1966 was his first whitetail hunt and he has never looked back. His fly fishing and hunting adventures have taken him from Ungava Bay to Lake Illiamna, most of the Canadian Provinces and the whitetail states of the Midwest. His hunting articles can be found at Eastman's Hunting Journal, Hunting Life Media, GoHunt.com and GOABC. His intimate knowledge of big game hunting in the Rockies allowed him to be an Insider contributor for goHunt.com.
He has served on nationally known conservation boards, is a Life Member of RMBS, WSF, RMEF and NRA. He was elected to serve as a SE Regional member of the Colorado Sportsman's Roundtable.
He is recognized in the whitetail world as the very successful outdoor communicator and influencer as Host, Executive Director, and Co-Founder of the highly acclaim podcast, Whitetail Rendezvous Podcast. This podcast has exceeded over 500,000 downloads and interviewed over 650 guests. During the summer of 2019 Bruce created and published Deer Hunting Institute, Part 1. A hunting course to support the three R's; Recruitment, reactivation and retention.
Hutch On Hunting is his latest podcast that focuses on Big Game Hunting in Colorado. He will share his years of on the ground experience, the adventures of other guests and top hunters in the Rocky Mountains.