Search results
-
Good Neighbor: Elk Management in Montana
Really good film. Thanks for sharing it. I've said it before and I'll say it again. At the 8 minute mark, a landowner coming from a genuine place says this: "I think anything that’s gonna be a long term solution has gotta be incentive based. If you made it to where it is desirable for me to...- Nameless Range
- Post #4
- Forum: MONTANA
-
Dan Ashe: former USFWS director, “useful idiot” for the anti-hunting movement
Think of a bad management proposal, and there's a good chance CWD could be used to justify it. Not saying CWD isn't an issue, just that, from ending predator hunting to massively hammering already thin ungulate herds, it's used as a reason of persuasion. What the hell is "Trophy Hunting"? Where...- Nameless Range
- Post #5
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
-
Lionheart - A film by Blood Origins
My sons and I watched this last night. Really well done.- Nameless Range
- Post #5
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
-
Cats Aren't Trophies
Do they do polling on propositions? Being out of touch with Colorado, I wonder what the outlook is like at this current time.- Nameless Range
- Post #259
- Forum: COLORADO
-
Your Personal Wounding Rate- Archery Elk
I've loosed arrows 5 times on 5 elk - 2 bulls and 3 cows. One of the bulls was kissed on the brisket and blood was drawn but I lost its trail and it got away. That's 1 outta 5, so 20%. I think that is pretty representative of folks if not even a little lower based on the stories I hear.- Nameless Range
- Post #50
- Forum: Elk
-
Hunting by yourself
Randy has a great video on YouTube on the gutless method.- Nameless Range
- Post #10
- Forum: Women Hunters
-
Sad story from North Central Idaho
Dang. I don't know much about fuel trucks, but I do recall watching a safety video about the dangers of static and such when fuel is being transferred to or from trucks. Scary stuff. A few years ago I responded to the scene of a fuel tanker explosion on I-15 west of Boulder, MT. The driver did...- Nameless Range
- Post #5
- Forum: IDAHO
-
-
Montana's Impossible Housing Situation
Many LEO positions as well as teaching positions have sat empty a long dang time because those folks can't afford to live in the communities that need them. I’m very lucky in that I built my house 12 years ago for as much as people are purchasing lots in my area of the same size now. I have...- Nameless Range
- Post #83
- Forum: MONTANA
-
Blood Boiling
Poaching is pretty prevalent in the Elkhorns. I live a couple miles from Tizer Rd, and hope to see the guilty party's head on a pike at the I-15 exit in the near future.- Nameless Range
- Post #13
- Forum: Elk
-
Montana Grizz management
When I read the EIS, I feel as if I am reading a mature and well-fleshed out plan. The only real rebuttals I sympathize with are those of a general distrust of FWP to follow the plan. Whether it comes to wolves or grizz, the question I ask opponents of State Management is "What do you think is...- Nameless Range
- Post #5
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
-
Fun Discussion
I've harvested the neck and rib meat off of some animals I've killed, and others I haven't. When I read Montana's Wanton Waste Law, I could see an argument that because neck and rib meat is "suitable for food", one should extract it to remain lawful. If this person didn't pull the tenderloins...- Nameless Range
- Post #14
- Forum: Field care - Meat, Trophy, Taxidermy
-
US Forest Service reduced funding for 2025 implications
As someone who lives in a county that is nearly 2/3 USFS land and has for 35 years, who works with the USFS through a federal/state sanctioned working group, who chairs a county board that frequently works with the USFS, and puts fires out with them in our rural fire district, my repeated...- Nameless Range
- Post #38
- Forum: Public Land Issues
-
FWP being systematically dismantled
I can think of two roads within 10 miles of the house I grew up in that were public my entire childhood that are now private. One was considered a county Road, was on the county gas tax roll, and had a history of county maintenance. The other was a USFS road. The fight for those roads is...- Nameless Range
- Post #68
- Forum: MONTANA
-
FWP being systematically dismantled
On BLM it’s one thing, but you should never ask permission to access a road with unrecorded easement or public availability in question, as it can set a precedent and serve as evidence in the future when that road’s status is adjudicated.- Nameless Range
- Post #63
- Forum: MONTANA
-
Bulls for Billionaires - MT EQC Meeting today 1:30 PM
Resurrecting this thread to mention something in regard to the 454 program I heard the other day, which in my opinion is basically a 10% disaster in LE Districts. Most landowners whether they participate in Block Management or not, allow some public access. Could be friends, neighbors, kids. In...- Nameless Range
- Post #694
- Forum: MONTANA
-
FWP being systematically dismantled
I don't want to stray from the OP too much, but I don't think it's so simple. There was a time not too long ago when a D from Montana was very different than a D from the east coast. Jon Tester, who delisted wolves with a rider on a budget bill, is a good example of that dichotomy - but a...- Nameless Range
- Post #11
- Forum: MONTANA
-
FWP being systematically dismantled
This is something I can't shake. Gianforte, for his flaws, could be so much worse. Under him, we've still got big acquisitions and CEs, a much much improved elk plan, and at the very least, an attempt to appear diplomatic to the working stiff. It's worth noting that FWP just prevailed in a...- Nameless Range
- Post #4
- Forum: MONTANA
