Donnelle Johnson owner HuntData

I'm pretty passionate about encouraging women and children, Donnelle Johnson owner HuntData, that they can go into the great outdoors and encounter all that has been created for us, and there's a lot of ways to get equipped so that you can have the right tools and make sure you do that correctly.

But it can start with just a camera or whatever your favorite hobby is it doesn't have to be hunting. But for me, it started with photography and it turned into hunting and I loved playing a lot of different sports growing up so it was just another adventure for me to get involved in the outdoors and it helps me stay in shape and all of the above and encounter some great beauty that awaits us outdoors. Donnelle Johnson owner HuntData

passionate about encouraging women and children that they can go into the great outdoors

I can recommend two social media pages. One's a social media page it's called Step Up Step Out, and actually, Lisa and I are a part of that. Lisa's one my partners here in our hunting business but we actually mentored two groups of young ladies last on turkey hunts. Donnelle Johnson owner HuntData

We also mentored two different groups we took a bunch of women on a pheasant hunt. So that particular page is called Step Up Step Out and that is here in Colorado but also, like here in Colorado Parks and Wildlife has a program for the youths and if they will go through that program get on their website and Google the youth portion of that, my daughter was a part of this five years ago where they had mentors set up there at Parks and Wildlife that you'll apply for that process...and my husband and I actually do hunt but we went ahead and had our daughter go through the program because they have access to a lot of private ranches and so it actually increases the odds of the kids having a successful hunt, so.

Donnelle Johnson is a hunter, Donnelle Johnson owner HuntData, fisherwoman, CPA, and a musician. She grew up in Oklahoma fishing with her Dad and vacationing in Colorado. She also lived in Texas and Alaska where she developed a love for salmon fishing, outdoor photography, and the mountains. Donnelle Johnson owner HuntData

Donnelle Johnson owner HuntData, fisherwoman, CPA, and a musician

There is a way to hunt smarter and I'll just use my own story. I started in 95, we started a business called HuntData. We started collecting the statistics and preference points and a lot of people, I've done hunting shows for over 25 years and guys'll laugh at me and say, "I don't need a computer or I don't need statistics." However, they do indicate where you're more successful areas are and so my story was the first three years that I started, I started hunting in 95 and my first three years we went to the place where my husband, his boss had taken him. Because like we were talking about earlier, how do you get started?

Well sometimes if you know somebody that is a good way to get started but he kept taking us to the same unit and I had a bull tag and I kept seeing these same 12 elk and the way I knew is one had a radio collar on her. So I was seeing the same 12 elk and I hunted hard for two weeks. When I do something I give it everything I have. And so I just decided to use our own program where I took up and in the meantime, I started applying for points in the draw in April. And I always encourage people to do that as well. Some people say, "Well, I don't need points right now" and usually, you don't want the points until you want the points if that makes sense. Let's say five years from now you say, "Oh, I'd like to do a limited hunt" but you haven't been applying so you have nothing.

There is a way to hunt smarter and I'll just use my own story

But if you've been applying every year in April whether you want to use them or not, you're just putting money in the bank so to speak,...