The first successful launch was in Fergus County in 2019. “Think of it as a self-driving car, only you’re 200 feet in the air. “Apart from all the AI involved, there’s really nothing to it,” Axes says casually. Axes infused technology derived from county land surveys, OnX Maps, and a Chinese company that hacks Elon Musk’s satellites into a GPS device capable of determining landing location down to the nearest foot. The contraption is modeled after ancient Roman catapults, and while the design is much the same, the application is far more nuanced.
Axes, a graduate of the MSU architecture program, began designing the first Huckster the next day. “Not five minutes into the first battle scene, I knew what I needed to do,” he remembers. That night, Axes returned home in a fury and turned on Gladiator to decompress. “He was only 100 yards away, but he may as well have been on Turner’s.” Axes shakes his head, recalling his frustration. A narrow strip of private land separated his position on the trail from the public land beyond. “I had a huge bull standing broadside on Forest Service land, with no way to get to him,” Axes says. Axes, HFH owner and founder, came up with the idea of a human catapult while hunting elk in the Crazies.
Until now, that is.īozeman start-up Hucking for Hunters (HFH) may solve this problem once and for all, with its patented ballistic device, the Huckster. Historically, setting foot on them has been limited to the ranchers and wealthy landowners who own the surrounding acreage. Much has been written about the abundance of huntable land Montana has to offer, but little is known of the hundreds of public parcels sitting in isolation.
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