Best post yet, this will increase bear hunters and the love of the sport. I believe with the harvest information from Idaho that Montana will end up vary even if this bill goes through. The two harvest rates from Idaho between 2018 and 2020 we’re very even between spot & stalk and using hounds...
Here is Idaho’s harvest rate from 2018-2020 harvest rate. Hound being the lowest. So everything in this bill is mirrored from Idaho, I worked with Idaho’s Predator management biologist on Preparing the bill. Here in the harvest chart Montana would be using the numbers off the Hounds and spot &...
Get up 0dark30, go to my hound yard, pick out team 6-8 hound (two lead dogs), put all the tracking collars on them, tell the hounds to load up, hit the road, meet up with friends & family & make a plan. Then get to where want to I want to start the hunt, then put 2 strike dogs and two younger...
Thank you, I appreciate the kind words.
Terry
HB 468 is a well written bill, for me it’s about opportunity for my 16-year-old son and the younger generation of hunters in houndsmen to enjoy bear hunting with Hounds. For me it’s about the Chase in training the dogs, 99% of the time the animal...
Yes it was a huge surprise, hairy for minute. Called the dogs off. Yes I am a houndsmen, I am the person who started HB 468 with great pride. Passed the house FWP committee yesterday 12 - 6.
When he said dead hounds, a houndsman perceives that being shoot by other hunters , maybe I wrong. That usually the notion. I would hope not, very few hounds are ever killed pursuing big game. Grizzlies would bay up, trust me it is not fun I have been there up cat hunting a caught a grizzly.
I don't support SB bill 143. I look at this bill in a hypothetical way. My best friend and hunting buddy is my youngest son. Some day after college Dylan will go out into the job world that will either keep him here in Montana or move him out of state. There are the come home to hunt tags, they...
I was telling everyone in my early post about my views from and my office, these are from my office. This is Dregger Ridge, this is what is in the pictures and FWP is in the middle of trying to secure a conservation easement around the Lost Trail US fish & wildlife refuge. The pictures of the...
I look out my window of my house and my office at work, the mountains I look at are Weyerhauser. The amount of people that could be impacted are tremendous. The one common thing I think about is that Southern Pines sold to the wilks brothers, period. I hope and pray we can come up with a...
more on region 1, here you go
Peck: Weyerhaeuser land sale a ‘disaster’ for county
By DERRICK PERKINS
The Western News
A “disaster,” is how Lincoln County Commissioner Mark Peck described the potential sale of 630,000 acres of timberland in northwest Montana.
Weyerhaeuser Company...