Real Montana Charcoal

Company history

After attending taxidermy school,Randy started Critters-N-Stuff as a small taxidermy shop located in Darby Montana. Taxidermy was slow a first, so Randy took a job digging firelines around logging units in the Bitterroot, Lolo and Clearwater (Lochsa) forest. As he had two young children to raise so he had to quit this job  (the favorite of  his lifetime) because it kept him away from home to much. He started working as a Sub-Contractor cutting firewood for a local firewood service. After three years and  his years creeping up on him, he decided to quite firewood and start  another business  under the name of Critters-N-Stuff, doing easier work at his old mainstays construction and landscaping. For about 2 years he worked at his construction business and landscape company during the Summer months and back to doing Taxidermy in the Winter. This easier work was nice but now he really started to miss cutting firewood so he bought a couple 1 1/2 Ton trucks and a 1 ton and started cutting firewood in the mountains of western Montana. For five years Randy spent the Fall and Winter cutting firewood and when he had a day off in the Summer, as well as doing Taxidermy, chiefly during the Fall and Winter, construction and landscaping in the Summer. In the spring of 2008, while walking around in His back yard a thought came into his head, "I wonder how they make charcoal". So he decided to find out. After studying about it he decided to give it a try. He made a small earthen oven and cooked out a batch. It all burned up. Not one to give up easily he learned from his mistake and tried again, this time it went much better and through a whole lot of trial and error (more error than trial) he proceeded in perfecting his process. Now at age 42 Randy has gotten out of Taxidermy, Landscaping, Firewood and Contracting. Now, he solely concentrates on making the best charcoal on the market today.

Customer testimonials

UPNSMOKIN
We are a competition BBQ team named UPNSMOKIN, we have been doing BBQ competitions for the last few years and have used most of the major brands in lump charcoal and have had the same results with them all, good heat and OK burn times.
With Real Montana Charcoal we have found good heat, good burn times as well as incredible flavor.
I never realized that custom charcoal could make such a difference in our BBQ products, to be honest I never new there was such a thing as custom charcoal.
The first product we tried was the Maple. we used it at the Montana State BBQ championship and had great results,we tied for first place in ribs. The charcoal was easy to light and burned with what BBQr's call the perfect smoke!
A nice blue smoke.
This product produces great flavor and a great smoke ring without adding wood chips or chunks to the fire box.
We have tried apple,oak,maple,cherry and now even plum and have had the same results with all of them, AWESOME!
If you want to add that something special to your BBQ then Real Montana Charcoal is a must,we will be using it at all of our BBQ contests and events.

Thanks for a great product!
Brett and Candi
UPNSMOKIN CUSTOM SMOKED MEATS
Florence,Montana
 
The Naked Whiz's Charcoal review of our Maple.

BIO-CHAR
The average Real Montana Charcoal adsorption capacity was 70% higher than for the selection of lump charcoals.
Hugh McLaughlin PHD, PE