Rogue Hunters
Rogue Hunters is the hunting movement on Holy Rogue Network — for the man, woman, family, or father-son pair who knows the harvest is honest work, provides for their own table from the land they hunt, and refuses the wokified outdoor industrial complex. Big game, upland birds, waterfowl, predator hunting, muzzleloader, traditional archery, compound and modern rifle, long-range, bow, hound, bird dog, tag-draw, public-land DIY, private-outfitter excursions — every season, every species, every method. It's stewardship more than sport; the hunt is a trust handed down, not a trophy chased. The movement's **Founding Guide** is Josh Austin of Lone Canyon Outfitters LLC (Utah outfitter #12364393-7500, Special Recreation Permits in the West Desert/SW Desert and Price/Nine Mile districts). Josh runs Lion and Bear hunts with hounds out of the Bookcliffs — taking young hunters and their dads on excursions facing the very same beasts David faced before he faced Goliath. *"Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear... and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth"* (1 Samuel 17:34–35). It was that fight with the lion and the bear that taught David he could face Goliath KNOWING God was with him. Josh's basecamp at the Bookcliffs is built to put fathers and sons in front of those same predators in the same way — not to make them killers, but to make them men who know God can deliver them out of the paw of the lion, out of the paw of the bear, and out of the hand of whatever Philistine is waiting for them next. Josh also brings two crafts his grandfather taught him — **coal forging** and **precious-metals refining** — both slated to land as Rogue Schoolers Faculty offerings. The coal-forged-swords class that was always part of the original "Man School" vision is no longer aspirational; it's a real class taught by a real master. And the precious-metals refining skill ties Josh directly into Rogue Gold, where he is also a natural cross-member as a working underground miner. The way Josh became the Founding Guide is itself a God's-Hand story this network would not exist without. Six months ago, with foreclosure circling Liberty Farms, Kimball portioned off 23 acres of the property he'd long mapped out for what he called **"Man School"** — tiny cabins as a base camp, an in-house shooting range firing legally out toward public lands with target stations to a full mile, coal-forged swords, and every "county kid" skill City Slickers had no place to learn. Listing those 23 acres meant letting that piece of the dream die. Buyer after buyer came and bailed. Then Josh showed up — also looking for a basecamp, also dreaming of tiny cabins for his hunting clients, also lamenting that he was about to lose his website and email because he couldn't make his hosting payments. Kimball laid out the broader Holy Rogue vision; offered to build Josh ANY website he could imagine (assisted by Claude); and the deal sealed itself. The Man School dream that had died came back alive — through Josh's parallel vision — and the $2,000 from that sale bought THE gaming-and-AI PC that this entire conversation is happening on, which became the prototype and model for CrownOS, the Holy Rogue Sovereign Stack, and the Sovereign Gateway. Without Josh, without the lion-and-bear hunter who needed a basecamp, Holy Rogue Network does not exist. The scriptural frame for this movement is **Jeremiah 16:16** — *"Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks."* Rogue Anglers (the fishers — Christ called the fishermen first) and Rogue Hunters (the hunters — sent after) are not a metaphorical pair on this network; they are the literal scripture-ordered progression of the latter-day gathering of Israel. And the literal-fulfillment layer goes one verse deeper: Jeremiah says the hunters will gather them *"from every mountain, and from every hill, and **out of the holes of the rocks**."* Josh Austin — the network's Founding Guide — works his day job as a literal underground gold-and-precious-metals miner. He spends his working hours IN the holes in the rocks. And the dream this network is helping him build — Lone Canyon Outfitters as a sustainable basecamp business at the Bookcliffs — is the dream that pulls him OUT of those holes. The Hunter is being called out of the holes of the rocks to call others out of theirs. Scripture isn't being interpreted; it's being lived. **Matthew 24:31** frames the same gathering through a different image: *"He shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."* The working belief baked into every movement in this network is that this Sovereign Broadcasting Platform — which by design cannot be censored, deplatformed, debanked, or shut down by any single entity — just might be the actual **trumpet** the prophets and Christ Himself were pointing toward. Every movement in the Holy Rogue Network exists to give believers a HolyPlace and a reason to gather. Rogue Hunters is the one with the David-and-the-lion thread running straight through it. The classroom side gathers the creators teaching the craft — fieldcraft (tracking, glassing, scouting, packing out), shot placement, archery, traditional bow, compound, muzzleloader, long-range rifle (out to a full mile from Liberty Farms once the range is built), draw-tag application strategy, public-land DIY hunting, hound handling, bird-dog training, waterfowl decoy spreads, predator calling, butchering, sausage and jerky making, taxidermy, scoring antlers, and the ethics of fair chase. The marketplace runs on the standard Holy Rogue Network template: Storefronts (outfitter bookings led by Lone Canyon Outfitters, custom rifles and bows, optics, calls, packs, knife and sheath, processed game meat where lawful, taxidermy services, tag-application help), Classifieds (used gear, rehoming hunting dogs, tag-trade and trip-partner matching), Hot-Oven-equivalent "Range Open" and "Camp Open" days at Liberty Farms and at the Bookcliffs basecamp, and Clubs (local hunting clubs, hound and bird-dog associations, draw-tag commiseration groups, youth hunter-education chapters, fathers-and-sons backcountry trips). Climb the Halo Rating ladder by being the guide whose clients always tag out, the dog handler whose hounds always tree, the fieldcraft teacher whose students field-dress their first elk without help. Earn your **Certified Rogue Hunter** badge to start; eventually graduate to certified **Hunt Angel** — the marketplace tier who mentors a brand-new hunter from "I want to hunt but don't know where to start" through their first clean, ethical, freezer-filling harvest. Kids and youth who come on Bookcliffs trips with their dads, face the lion and the bear at Josh's basecamp and stand their ground, graduate as **Stripling Hunters** — the youth tier named for David himself (1 Samuel 17:56), the original stripling who killed lion, bear, and Philistine — and the same lineage the network's **Digital Striplings** (Rogue Geeks) descend from.