Why BBOS Exists

Michael has stood on every side of a Texas dove hunt. He's been the hunter looking for a place to shoot. He's been the guide running clients. And he's been the landowner fielding the calls. For two years he ran a hunting coordination business the way everyone in Texas runs one — off a personal cell phone, a handshake network, and whatever hours were left over.

The problem was never the demand — it was the cost of chasing it. Michael worked weeks at a time in the Permian Basin oilfields, and every September he walked away from high-paying, steady work to run dove season — trading a reliable paycheck for unpredictable turnouts and every headache that comes with them: marketing hunts, answering hunters, scheduling guides, and keeping the paperwork straight in whatever hours were left. He knows firsthand what it costs to make an outdoor venture work outside the demands of regular employment — and that the back office, not the hunting, is what breaks most of them.

So he built the back office. Bare Bone Outdoor Services streamlines operations for landowners, extends a guide's reach to the entire Texas hunting population, and gives hunters one centralized marketplace to find hunts near home or on the road. The waivers, payments, and documentation that the handshake network skips — until the day it can't — are built into every booking, a habit Michael carried straight from oilfield safety systems, where the paperwork exists because the stakes are real.

He brings an Animal Science degree with a rangeland management minor, TPWD youth program experience, and a working network of landowners, guides, and ranch operators across the Concho Valley, Permian Basin, and Hill Country. BBOS isn't a hunting app built from a city office — it's a working operation's playbook, turned into a platform.