Recent content by Flynarrow
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‘25-‘26 Upland Bird Thread
I've hunted that area for many years before it burned- Flynarrow
- Post #147
- Forum: Feathers and Wings
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Quintessential Western Whitetail?
Montana Special Hunt: Grab a case of Bud, grab a couple of buddies, load up the pickup and drive the roads at dusk but carry a spotlight in case nobody gets anything earlier.- Flynarrow
- Post #13
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Fire Science and Wild Sheep
As comments here suggest, there is a variety of landscapes that respond differently to fire. Some elevations containing sage with cheat grass can respond with only cheatgrass, eliminating sage for long periods or longer. Here in western Montana we have far more mature forest acres now than in...- Flynarrow
- Post #9
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Tundra or Another F-150
Yup, a cam phaser at 55,000 in my F150 3.5....$4000.- Flynarrow
- Post #65
- Forum: Hunting Rigs - Truck Talk
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Public Lands Rule Recission
"The Public Lands Rule, finalized by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in April 2024, established conservation as a formal use of public lands, equal to other uses like mining, grazing, and recreation." Finally BLM (AKA Bureau of Livestock and Mining) would have to consider conservation as a... -
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Wild vs planted pheasants, wow....
You might ask how a beginning hunter is going to find and shoot a Phelon Pheasant. Likely no trained dog to find the bird. If the bird hides and is hesitant to fly, what are the odds the beginning hunter will find it? Perhaps offering a shot as it walks down a road looking for a feeding...- Flynarrow
- Post #40
- Forum: Feathers and Wings
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Wild vs planted pheasants, wow....
Unfortunately Montana is recently on the list of farmed pheasant releases due to the Legislature giving the prison system up to $1,000,000 per year of sportsmen dollars as a make work project to have prisoners farm pheasants. We term the program Phelon Pheasants. The cost per pheasant released...- Flynarrow
- Post #39
- Forum: Feathers and Wings
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‘25-‘26 Upland Bird Thread
Always appreciate photos of roosters at your dogs feet with the late afternoon light glistening off their iridescent colors, enhanced by the late afternoon light. I remember those days. However, the western montana surviving roosters at this point in the season aint hanging out for those...- Flynarrow
- Post #79
- Forum: Feathers and Wings
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‘25-‘26 Upland Bird Thread
Pheasant photos make the most photogenic of the upland birds, often accentuated by late afternoon light across their breasts. However in western Montana, those photo opportunities become rare as roosters surviving opening day often head for the biggest baddest cattail swamps. Today I could...- Flynarrow
- Post #76
- Forum: Feathers and Wings
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No King's Deer
I remind myself that every single day some politician, corporation, special interest group, industry or other entity is trying to steal the public's water, land or wildlife. Those attacks come in different forms, and IMO those efforts are intensifying. Re wildlife, special tags based on land...- Flynarrow
- Post #3
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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EHD dead deer
All around Ninepipes....usually near some sort of water like small potholes. Tribe and bios are aware of it and have posted some news of it. -
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EHD dead deer
As Region 6 has eliminated further sale of over the counter doe tags in response to the recent EHD die off of whitetail. Walking while pheasant hunting the last 3 days in the Mission valley of western Montana we are seeing multiple recent dead whitetail near water which we attribute to EHD as... -
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Hungarian Partridge
Unless something recently separated the covey I have found the covey regroups in a day or so and stays together and flushes at nearly the same time....far more than chukars. I'm guessing that it is a small covey that resulted from significant mortality of their chicks from eggs to adulthood.- Flynarrow
- Post #18
- Forum: Feathers and Wings
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coyote...menu
Having been around coyotes most of my life, I admire them as the ultimate opportunist. They use their skills without wasting a lot of energy to get its needs and survive. Long ago when milkmen put milk on doorsteps, urban coyotes learned to grab the milk off of doorsteps. Nothing but...- Flynarrow
- Post #17
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
