Josh Smith started making knives at the age of 11. He became the youngest ever to pass the Journeyman Bladesmith test at age 15 and then earned the Master Bladesmith designation at age 19 – again, the youngest ever to do so. At 14, he started donating knives to RMEF, a conservation organization always “near and dear” to his heart, to raise funding for its mission. At one RMEF banquet, he made and traded a knife for a rifle he later used to take his first elk. Now, several decades later, Smith is co-founder of Montana Knife Company. Tag along with him as he goes full circle with RMEF on a New Mexico elk hunt to try to punch his elk tag.
Elk NetworkFULL CIRCLE – AN RMEF FILM
General , RMEF Films | November 4, 2024
RMEF FILM GIVEAWAY
With the premiere of FULL CIRCLE, We teamed up with our partners at Montana Knife Company to offer one grand prize winner the chance to take home over $2,000.00 worth of custom engraved MKC Culinary Knives.
HOW TO ENTER
Watch the film, subscribe to our YouTube channel and enter the form in the YouTube film description for a chance to win.
The giveaway runs from November 3, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. MDT and ends on November 10, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. MDT.
The grand prize winner will be randomly selected on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, and contacted via email and on our YouTube channel.
RMEF Films in total are produced by support from:
Mathews Archery|Browning Firearms|Bass Pro Shops & Cabela’s
STIHL USA|Buck Knives|Lacrosse|YETI|Eberlestock|Pendleton Whisky
BECOME A MEMBER TODAY
RMEF is the voice of elk and elk hunters. When you join, you become a member of a conservation movement – one that puts money on the ground to confront expanding development by conserving and protecting habitat for elk, mule deer, moose, pronghorn antelope, wild turkey, black bears, upland birds and other wildlife species. You also help RMEF open and improve public access for hunting, fishing and other recreational activities. And you further mission priorities of ensuring the future of hunting, expanding the scientific knowledge of elk and advocating for science-based resource management and conservation.
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