Good Luck Hook!

Hook is heading out West to shoot a few range maggots! Bring home some meat for sausage! Have a safe trip! James, Dustin, and I will take good care of your place while you are gone…LOL!
Tuck

Gonna do a little pronghorn hunting, heh. Get some pics, it’ll remind me of home!!

Thanks, and i’ll bring home some pics. to post, even though its not a hunting site.
You know i’m looking forward to this, i’m going with my Dad and cousins one of which lives in Montana so its going to be fun if nothing else.
Tuck, you guys know the place as well as I do, all I ask is you take as good a care of it as I do.LOL
You have to know the place to get the joke.
Leave a few fish for when I get back.

Be nice to John, Good Luck.

My trip to Montana Antelope hunting was a blast. What I got out of the trip was nothing short of spectacular! I did not shoot one myself but a few of our group did score bucks. There were plenty of opportunities to shoot baldies but we were looking for horns.

I had never drove much west of the Minnesota-North Dakota border myself so the scenery in western North Dakota and eastern Montana was something I’d never seen before. I can say it was country you would have to love, as it was obvious that it would not be for everyone. This is a hard barren country that must be tough to navigate when wet, and unforgiving when your in the dead of winter.

We drove through the Painted Canyons of North Dakota as well as traveling by truck and foot through many beautiful hills and buttes in Montana. It will quickly make you understand why they sometimes refer to it as “Big Sky” country as it’s a long ways between points of civilization.

There were many Mule Deer and Sage Grouse encounters and my cousin John even saw a Jack Rabbit, fortunately the rattlesnakes were nowhere to be seen.

I went out there with my Dad and cousin John, where we met up with another of my cousins Chuck, John’s older brother, and 4 of his buddies, John, Kip, Pete and Joe Mama, who all live a ways north of Yellowstone in western Montana.

The Ranch we stayed on consisted of about 90 sections (90 sq. miles) and our hosts Tom and Nancy Horn, were very nice people, we even talked them into coming out for a fish fry Thursday evening (the Minnesota connections night to cook).

We had great weather, no rain or snow to speak of and everyone went home safe.

I really enjoyed this chance to get away for a break, as this was my only real vacation of the year.

Every evening for us was like you see in the attached picture.

Beautiful country hook!!
I have yet to make it out “west” but someday I got to experience it.

Glad you had a good trip.
Any big bucks?

Glad you enjoyed the vacation. I really like it here in Mn, the trees are beautiful, no wind and great fishing. One thing I miss is the open country though. It’s amazing how different the landscape just a few hundred miles away.

I about fell off my chair when you mentioned the jack rabbit. We used to have so many of them, they actually paid about $2.00 a piece for them. Remind me to tell you some rabbit hunting stories if we ever get to meet.

I’ll be up fishing with James this Friday so maybe we’ll see ya on the water. Thanks for the great picture!!!

We may cross pathes this friday, i’ll be up in the evening, might see James before he goes out.

Hooks,
Where were you staying in Montana? I have some roots that go back there and was out there this past summer. I was out by Big Fork. Every time I go out there I am a little more impressed with the scenery. What a gorgeous area with unbelievable amount of wildlife.

We were on a ranch by Jordan, 60 miles or so north of Mile City.