Changing lives through the hunt
Guided outdoor experiences for veterans, first responders, and kids facing hard odds. In the field, the weight lifts.
Our Mission
Hunt to Heal gives back to the veterans and first responders who carried the weight for the rest of us, and gets chronically ill, disabled, and low-income kids into the field. The hunt is a hard teacher, and a fair one. Weather, terrain, fatigue, and let-downs. Do everything right and you can still come home empty. You reset and keep after it. You only truly fail if you quit.
“In the field, social barriers dissolve. In nature, healing begins.”
Who We Walk With
Different roads,
same fire
We meet people where they are, and the land does not ask where they came from.
Combat veterans
A central focus of our mission. Those carrying the weight of service, searching for purpose, relief, and brotherhood. The quiet of the hunt gives it back.
Wounded in action
Those wounded in combat zones, rebuilding confidence, purpose, and physical strength on their own terms.
First responders
Firefighters, medics, and officers who carry what they have seen. The field offers quiet, brotherhood, and room to set it down.
Resilient kids
Chronically ill, disabled, or low-income kids who rarely get a shot at the outdoors. We get them in the field, mentor them, and show them that circumstance does not decide what they can navigate.
How It Works
The path into the field
Apply
Tell us your story. Every application is read by a real person, no judgment, no gatekeeping.
Meet your mentor
We pair you with a mentor who has walked a hard road and come out the other side.
Into the field
A structured, guided experience. Discipline, patience, and quiet, the land does the rest.
Carry it forward
You leave with a community of shared purpose and a standing invitation to come back.
Rooted in Conservation
We protect what heals us
Healing happens in wild places, so we take care of them. Every experience is grounded in an ethic of stewardship: respect for the animal, the habitat, and the men who will come after.
We teach conservation as a way of life, because anyone who learns to protect the land learns something about protecting themselves.
Fair chase, always
We hunt ethically and within the law, honoring the animal and taking only what is needed.
Stewards of the land
Participants learn to care for the habitats that make healing possible, and leave them better than we found them.
Giving back
We teach every participant to leave the land better than they found it, so it keeps healing the men who come after them.
“A man who feels the weight lift outdoors carries less of it home.”
The Hunt to Heal creed
Support the Mission
Fund a man’s way back
Every dollar puts boots in the field. Give once or become a monthly partner.
Field Partner
$25/month
Keeps a young man geared up and fed for a season in the field.
- Boots-on-the-ground supply fund
- Quarterly impact letter
Base Camp
$100/month
Sponsors a participant through a full guided experience, start to finish.
- Everything in Field Partner
- Sponsor a named participant
- Invitation to the annual gathering
Expedition
$500/month
Funds an entire cohort, mentors, land access, gear, and travel.
- Everything in Base Camp
- Fund a full cohort hunt
- Recognition as a founding partner
Prefer to give your time? We’re always looking for mentors and volunteers.
Volunteer as a mentor