My name is Brad Holzer. I was born in Billings MT in 1970. My parents moved here, to Glendive, when I was three and I’ve been here ever since. Since grade school I’ve been into hunting. It all started when I got to go deer hunting with my dad and his friends. Then I got my first BB gun which I’d take into the hills to shoot lizards, snakes, and cottontails.

When I was 19 My dad got a different job running a bank in SW Montana. I stayed here and got a job in the oilfield. My hunting interest at the time was taken over by the new job, a lot of fishing, and later, starting a family.

The hunting interest rekindled in late 1999 when one of my co-workers and a very avid hunter, kept talking about how coyote calling was his favorite type of hunting. I got a 220 Swift for Christmas that year, and in January, that same co-worker took me out to do some calling for the first time ever. 7 or 8 minutes into out first stand a coyote came in, stopped at 100 yards to look our way, and two seconds later my factory bullet went through its spine. Dave was doing the calling and didn’t even see it come in. I learned a lot from that first stand, and haven’t looked back since. My newest endeavor worth mentioning is bobcat trapping which started last year. With less than zero knowledge about trapping, I spent all of last spring and summer buying traps and scouting my acquired trapping country. I managed three cats during our shortened 5 week season, and plan to double it next year.

In 2002 I started making my own calls with the help of Rich Cronk and Sly Dog as two of my most influential and looked up to individuals. I’ve accomplished every goal I’ve set for myself pertaining to call making, and the satisfaction of getting a great working call to a call user or collector will keep me making calls for many years to come.

Aside from call making and coyote calling, my time off is mostly spent with my family. I’ve just recently taught both of my daughters to ride their bikes on two wheels. Those are the type of moments that only come once, and why I spend as much time as I can with them while they’re young.

Brad Holzer