This exact thing happened to me. I was loading up my truck to go hunting, dog (female) was out with me and making her rounds on my property, disappeared. Lady picked my dog up on at the corner of my property (one big city lot), called animal control, animal control picked my dog up at the...
HB 676 - Sponsored by House speaker Brandon Ler (R-Savage) will "facilitate the sale of isolated sections of State Trust land". Seems like the slippery slope of selling State Trust lands and this may lead to the selling of State Trust lands.
Billings Gazette Article 03/27/2025
Senator Daniel Emrich (R-Great Falls) has a bill pending (SB 381) in the State Senate that proposes to sell of 126,000 acres of State public lands for homesteading by people who have lived in Montana for 10 years. The Senate Committee on Natural Resources heard the Bill on Wednesday.
Billings...
Damn ... Glad to hear no one was injured.
IMO, your trailer was heavier than your truck. Especially, since you're pulling a "toy hauler" w/ UTV in the back. The combination of a quarter-ton truck pulling a heavy load, the rough road conditions in the area (a lot of dips between MT State line...
I wish Leopold and/or Swarovski (or anyone for that matter) made range finding binoculars that has the display in the left-eye piece. They all make them to display in the right-eye. I had an eye injury when I was younger … legally blind in the right-eye.
It's better to hang it and not have a bear tear into your camp; then to not hang it and the bear tear your camp apart. It will ruin your hunt.
Besides, bears that become habituated to human food end up dead ... do the bears a favor and don't tempt or encourage them to recognize humans/camps...
With Archery and Rifle season(s) coming; What tips for preparing for the upcoming seasons do you have for others?
Boot care/treatment.
With the hot weather ...
I will clean up my boots, remove the laces, apply leather treatment to the boot (generously), set boots outside on the south facing...
I doubt it, but anything is possible. Look at Hezbollah ... "invades" Israel kills and kidnaps X number of innocent people and Israel then "invades" Gaza and kills 100X people. The sophistication of Israel's weapons (actually the U.S.'s weapons) if much better than most of the world. Right...