onpoint
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My brown girl and I completed the 2017 Montana hunting season today, the same way we started it on 9/1/17 - hunting public lands.
My, wife, my dogs, and I were lucky enough to hunt 4 continuous months for Blue and Ruff Grouse in Sept. and Oct. across vast tracts of United States Forest Service ground. In October, we chased antelope on Bureau of Land Management and turkeys on USFS. We also hunted roosters, Hungarian partridge, and sharptails on various pieces of Montana State, BLM, and Bureau of Reclamation parcels. Elk were chased on USFS and Montana State land - an unlucky bull that wandered onto a small piece of state land filled our freezer.
We looked over a lot of mule deer on BLM and Whitetails on state property. And for the last month, my dogs and I logged a lotta' miles on all types of public land all around this big state.
Today, my older girl made one of her trademark photo op retrieves on a small piece of MT FWP ground. The rooster and one sharptail in the bag.
Tonight, with the dogs at our feet, my wife and I had a nice dinner of Public Land batter fried huns, steamed lemon pepper carrots, and asiago garlic pasta.
Of course I hunted some private ground - but without Public Lands, 90% of the aforementioned activities would be non existent - for this hunter.
Public Lands and how fortunate we are to have them in our lives as the average Joe outdoorsmen/women - nothing more needs to be said.
My, wife, my dogs, and I were lucky enough to hunt 4 continuous months for Blue and Ruff Grouse in Sept. and Oct. across vast tracts of United States Forest Service ground. In October, we chased antelope on Bureau of Land Management and turkeys on USFS. We also hunted roosters, Hungarian partridge, and sharptails on various pieces of Montana State, BLM, and Bureau of Reclamation parcels. Elk were chased on USFS and Montana State land - an unlucky bull that wandered onto a small piece of state land filled our freezer.
We looked over a lot of mule deer on BLM and Whitetails on state property. And for the last month, my dogs and I logged a lotta' miles on all types of public land all around this big state.
Today, my older girl made one of her trademark photo op retrieves on a small piece of MT FWP ground. The rooster and one sharptail in the bag.
Tonight, with the dogs at our feet, my wife and I had a nice dinner of Public Land batter fried huns, steamed lemon pepper carrots, and asiago garlic pasta.
Of course I hunted some private ground - but without Public Lands, 90% of the aforementioned activities would be non existent - for this hunter.
Public Lands and how fortunate we are to have them in our lives as the average Joe outdoorsmen/women - nothing more needs to be said.
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