Mark Baker, Bowyer/Owner

Mark Baker has been shooting recurves and longbows since the age of 7 years, and naturally took to hunting with them while in college. He killed his first deer his first year out with a recurve back in 1978 and instantly fell in love with bowhunting. Living in Montana, Mark has had the opportunity to pursue multiple species with stick and string there and elsewhere throughout his almost 30 years of bowhunting. He got into building his own wood bows in the late eighty’s, and is an accomplished self-bowyer, hunting almost exclusively with his homemade tackle.

Mark worked as a bowhunting guide for elk and deer in Montana for nearly a decade, has been a whitewater raft guide, fly-fishing guide, museum director, but has worked mostly in the construction trades his entire adult life.

Mark answered the call to give back to the sport of bowhunting by serving on the board of directors for the Montana Bowhunters Association for nearly ten years, the last four of which as two-term President. He has also served for two-terms as President of the Traditional Bowhunters of Montana, and has taught Bowhunter Education for the state of MT for 15 plus years. Mark is also a regular member of PBS, and enjoys entertaining bowhunters and others with his unique brand of bowhunting music and powerpoint presentation as well as having authored several articles for various publications.

But among Mark’s accomplishments, he is perhaps proudest of his two son’s having taken up his favorite pastime with him, and joining him as two of his favorite hunting companions.