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The Wild Turkey Post

by Wayne Mumford May 7, 2012

Montana’s spring turkey season is on and my youngest boy got his first this morning, a nice young Tom. Wild turkey are doing very well just about everywhere in western Montana. They are literally all over the place but seem to congregate around agricultural land; farms, ranches where there is a good mix of woods [...]

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Montana snow pack, Feb. 22, 2012 | HookedNow Ezine| Hunters shoot down activist drone

by Wayne Mumford February 22, 2012

The storm front that came in today brought a lot of rain and wind to the valleys and foothills of western Montana. This evening the snowline looked to be about 5000 ft. The high country should see another good shot of heavy snow. And when I say heavy, think moist. Another layer on the already [...]

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Wolverines

by Wayne Mumford September 1, 2011

A little off topic but this film is an interesting look at the mythical little carnivore with a really big attitude. I’ve never actually seen one, I’ve run across their tracks in the fall in the Logan Pass area of Glacier National Park. I think he was hunting Ptarmigans. Tasty little birds. A creature of [...]

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There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth…

by Wayne Mumford February 16, 2011

So I’m getting a little off track here (doesn’t this guy fish?) but it’s winter, the weather and the legislature are putting me in a foul mood, so I feel I must lash out at something and I have no representative pinata’s to swing a stick at… Today Governor Schweitzer fired a shot over the [...]

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Wear that Life Jacket, Know the Water

by Wayne Mumford June 13, 2010

Search and Rescue recovered the body of an Ontario man on Thursday from Rock Creek after the man went missing from a capsized raft on Wednesday and apparently drowned. The man was fishing with a guide from Wise River. Apparently the boat capsized on a log jam or debris on a rough stretch of the [...]

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El Legarto

by Wayne Mumford January 8, 2010

Or Alligator, from the name the Spanish explorers gave to the American Alligator; like this one that was killed by a hunter recently in Florida. Somehow I feel more comfortable with a few grizzly bears running around the woods than I would going fishing where something this size was hanging out. And I damn sure [...]

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Whitetails in Montana

by Wayne Mumford November 23, 2009
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I’m really not much of a big game hunter and definitely not a horn or trophy hunter. My idea of hunting is much more culinary in nature, shoot the first legal size animal that comes along that’s in good shape and head home to more pressing (fishing type) matters. Pretty much opposite my approach to [...]

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Don’t Shoot me or don’t eat me?

by Wayne Mumford November 19, 2009
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Yesterday Montana’s controversial wolf hunt came to an end as the years quota’s for the various hunting units were met; two weeks before the official seasons end. I did however take the precautionary step of protecting my good friend with some blaze orange on the final day just in case. Nature has imbued my friend [...]

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