Dear Guest,
Hello my name is Steve Rahn, I am the owner & outfitter here at Silvertine. I would personally like to thank you for visiting my web-site! If you can spare a few minutes to read just this one page on my website, it will be worth your while if you are considering us for your next hunting adventure.

MISSION STATEMENT:
We are not your average hunt ranch, we are all about YOU our guests and providing YOU with exceptional trophy quality game and personalized service. I am a hands on outfitter, because I like the people, nature, animals, and hunting. All my hunts are fully guided by myself, or the few guides I have are like family, so you can be assured your in good hands. We have been in business conducting estate hunts for my guests since 1994, and I have made my career as a big game hunting guide and rancher since 1988, over 32 years.

Everything I do revolves around respect for the animals and nature. It's more than just filling a tag, it's camaraderie, sunrises, sunsets and everything in between, and that amazing feeling of being so close to a living animal. This ranch is build on the foundation of FAIR CHASE hunting principals. Some days the animals win, some days we do, and when it's our day, we owe it to the animal to make a good clean ethical kill. I feel very fortunate to offer my ranch to a small handful of hunters each year. Special moments happen each year on this ranch, and will be ingrained into your memory for a lifetime, actually more than special - it's dreams come true.

SERVICES:
I understand that customer satisfaction is the key to success. I take a minimal amount of hunters each year, just myself and one other guide, with around 2-6 hunters in camp at six at any one time. I try to give each hunter or group of hunter’s, exclusive use of the estates, with loads of ‘elbow room’.  

All my hunts are fully guided, unlike many other hunt ranches. We guide because we love to, and want you to have optimum safety and trophy selection. My main goal is to provide a quality hunt experience, with a top of the line big game trophies for each hunter. My secondary goal is to offer you a modern, comfortable, yet rustic log-cabin lodge and private cabins, with all the amenities and a relaxed “homey” atmosphere, located inside the hunting areas. I specialize in personal attention to each hunter, giving you, our guest, a great hunting experience and a feeling that you received more than your money’s worth.

​My preserve is the largest 100% forested licensed hunt preserve in Canada at just over 800 acres, with NO cross fences. Sure some guys advertise larger, but they are either stretching the truth or have large blocks of open farm ground. We can hunt every square inch of our preserve, an as you know, game find security in the bush, that's where they want to live!  The wide diversity of mature timber, brush, springs, rolling hills, lakes, and creeks provides a very challenging hunt, and a spectacular setting. The many wallows and dense, conifer timber give my bulls the distinction of having the darkest antler color available anywhere:  a rich chocolate brown with highly polished tips, or “Silver-tines” as my grandfather use to call them. You will experience lifelong enjoyment of the most spectacular elk mount in your trophy room.  Take notice of other hunt preserves kill pictures, they show photos of bleach white antlered bulls - I need not say anymore.

THE HUNTING GAME:
My Elk, Deer, Bison, and Exotics are free roaming on my Preserves. You will experience a REAL HUNT with a 100% GUARANTEED OPPORTUNITY! Plus, every trophy will be eligible for the SCI record books. 
We have closed herds, and breed all my own Elk, Whitetails, and Bison for my guests. Our ranch is located in a CWD free area of Canada, and my herd is disease free and 100% natural and organic, one of the safest herds in the nation.
These are real wild animals, with real instincts. Our breeding program has focused on breeding bucks and bulls with classic antler spread, classic tine length, and shape, not just massive crazy unnatural, unappealing amounts of  bone on their heads! 

My game spend their entire lives on my preserves - born, live, breed, and die here, so they are wild indeed. I have acquired some of the strongest genetic around, and I can fill any request you might have: from a slick typical, to the wildest, non-typical you have ever seen!  Also, I have bucks available annually up to 400"+ inches, and elk over 600"+ available, yes that's not a type-o!  With a gentic program like this, you will see why I specialize in producing only elite whitetails 200"+ and elk 400"+ , simply because I can't grow game any smaller anymore, that's why we don't, offer it.

You will experience a hunt "exactly" like nature intended. Herd elk bulls with harems of cows, satellite bulls jockeying for position during the seasonal changes, bachelor groups of bulls late in the winter months, all happening right before your very eyes. Whitetail bucks courting does, and challenging each other for dominance in the early morning November frost. Herds of rare European bison cows and calves moving threw the forest in front of you, or sit watching a bachelor group of old giant herd bulls feeding along the lake shore.

IN CONCLUSION:
Your experience will be a hunt, and not merely a shoot.  Silvertine provides the highest quality hunts for four species of Elk (Rocky Mountain, Roosevelt, Manitoban, and Russian White Elk), Whitetail Deer, American Bison and European Bison (Wisent). Also Silvertine has incredible Exotic Game during the Fall! Silvertine holds many World records and numerous top ten animals! Silvertines rifle hunters have a 100% kill-to-date record, and over a 1,600 SCI record book qualifying entries as of 2021. 

I continually updated my web-site as often as I can, and I believe you will find it dynamic and full of helpful information about what we offer.  It is loaded with great photos and videos of my guests and their trophies!  I encourage and welcome you to reach out and contact me anytime, please don't hesitate. 

A warm welcome awaits you at Silvertine

Best Regards,
Steve Rahn
Ph/Fx: 306-304-8885
steve@silvertine.ca

FOR INFO ON OUR ELK HUNTS CLICK HERE

INFO ON ACCOMMODATIONS CLICK HERE

FOR INFO ON BISON HUNTS CLICK HERE

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Silvertines Big Game Hunting Guides

Steve Rahn

I was born and raised in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. Raised on a Cattle Ranch and growing up in a family full of big game hunters it gave me a deep appreciate and passion for the outdoors and love of animals. To this day I strive to continue a proud family ranching tradition dating back three generations. My Hunting passion started from a young age, I cannot remember that far back when the first time I expressed an interest to go hunting, but I do vaguely recall asking my father to take me along on his annual moose hunts, and him saying something about needing to be potty trained first?

Always having a deep passion for the outdoors, horses, and hunting, once I finished a short term in University (and was fully potty trained) I ventured to the Yukon, were I guided Big game hunters on Horseback Hunting trips for Stone and Dall sheep for over 15 years. During the off season I would work as a cowboy on large cattle ranches in BC and Alberta. I purchased a raw chunk of land in the Fort St. John area of BC around 1994, and  started raising and boarding horses and Bison! It was in 1994 that I started offering "ranch hunts" for Bison and started "THE BADLY SCATTERED BUFFALO COMPANY" that grew (still to this day) to be Canada's largest and only bison hunting ranch offering all species of bison and several color phases as well. I now joined the ranks of being self employed. I decided to buy into my first free range hunting/guiding business with a partner in 1999. That "partnership" lasted two years before dissolving and I moved on. It was right around this time that I sold my Fort St. John home and moved to Clinton and started my Ranch in 2001 and my second guiding business "Buckskin Outfitting" materialized. I continued guiding international hunters ranching and rearing horses and bison on a smaller scale, and decided to sell Buckskin Outfitting in 2006, as I had started "Silvertine Wildlife Co." around 2003, and incorporated my bison hunts into this company, and my hunt ranching venture was growing leaps and bounds. I could only successfully operate one business, so I sold my Free Ranch guiding concession. As of 2023 I have been guiding hunters for 35 years, and know, I am one of those fortunate outfitters that has never forgot why I got into this profession in the first place...because I love the outdoors, hunting, and sharing hunting experiences with others. Being personally involved in every hunters hunt is of utmost importance to me.

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​Odus Rahn (aka: Odi, or Odi-doe-dee, Odi-dog, or Bone Hunter) Born July 3, 2016

​You know you are a small personalized operation when the Outfitters dog is a member of the team. Well ask any Silvertine client and they will say "Heck Ya" Odus is as instrumental as Steve in the smooth operation of Silvertine. Odus has many talents, but the biggest one is his nose. Track an elk or looking for sheds, Odus has it mastered! He is a true Lab, and a team player, always willing to pitch in when their is skinning (or cooking) chores to be done. Odus also likes to have his own chair in the tree house and help watch for game, and he was on his first elk kill at 5 weeks of age, and now has amazed  hundreds of big game kills and growing. Odus loves his job and is one cool dude!

On the watch for game in the tree house.

Safari Style Hunting!

Odi's first kill at 5 weeks of age.

A warm welcome awaits you at Silvertine.

Still hunting, these logs are not getting any smaller.

Even top guides need a little rest once and awhile.

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Yeti (AKA: Spaghetti, Yeti-O) Born December 1, 2018

Yeti's talents as a tracker are not as refined as Mr. Odus, but he has several talents of his own. Yeti is our "Customer Service Specialist" because he is amazing company, and makes all my guests feel so welcome at the ranch. He will be the first one to meet you when you drive up to the lodge, and be the first one to meet you each mornings when you leave your cabin to start your day. When it comes to shed antler hunting, Yeti is the guy who's team you want to be on, he is always finding them, and willing to share. If your a dog lover, this little lovable boy is going to win your heart!

You going to come hunting with me?

Patiently waiting to go hunting

My two boys on the couch.

Top guide in the making, on his first elk hunt and kill with Mr. Davis.

A good spring day shed hunting with my buddy Odus.

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Aaron McGaughey

Aaron McGaughey has extensive knowledge and specializes in whitetail deer. Aaron has managed several Whitetail ranches for several decades. In 2008, Aaron began specializing in implementing scientific deer breeding programs on ranches to enhance genetics, and has developed several ranches like ours to grow deer to their fullest potential threw proper management. Aaron has been guiding whitetail hunts majority of his life. Aaron has over thirty years experience ageing and judging whitetail deer on the hoof. 
Over the years Aaron has become like a brother to me, and has been oart of Silvertine since it's early years and joined the team in 2004. Aaron is a passionate hunter himself, and has killed the SCI Word Record Roosevelt elk and European Mouflon with a crossbow, and the number 5 SCI world record Rocky Mountain elk with a bow. Aaron has also taken almost each class of whitetail and several exotics that classified for the SCI record book. 

Outside of the hunting season Aaron is a Police Officer and strong family man, and has a beautiful wife Shelly and three kid-o's, Hunter, Gracey, and Brady.

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