Hunting

Here are some random photos of pheasant, grouse, duck, deer and elk hunting*:

Emily and Henry with Henry’s first bird!  October 2008.  More pheasant hunting pictures can be found here.

Pheasant hunting with Wally, Todd, Ahri, Emily, John and I.

Kyle, Bryan, Todd and I.

Todd, Emily and I.

Kellen, my Grandpa Walt, Uncle Albert, Mel and Dann.  Montana.

Hunting camp outside of Dillon.  More photos from a different elk hunting trip in Dillon can be seen here.

My dad and I.

Telling stories around the campfire.

Todd and his buddies pheasant hunting in South Dakota.

Emily duck hunting near Dillon, Montana.

Grouse hunting in Eastern Montana.

My grandfather Walt, great uncle Albert and I in Terry, Montana.

Emily’s first elk.

My dad and I putting the deer into the cooler.

Emily and I.

Henry.

Emily and I shooting traps.

Emily setting up her wall tent near Dillon.

Moose.

Trina and Emily with the bull elk that Trina shot.

Emily with her buck.

*My friends, family and I eat everything that we hunt. I enjoy being outside with Mother Nature just as much as I enjoy shooting something. I strongly believe in responsible and sustainable hunting practices.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with Montana here are a few tidbits of information: Montana is the fourth largest state in the U.S. behind Alaska, Texas and California. Montana ranks 44th in population, with less than 1 million inhabitants, and has the 3rd lowest population density in the United States. In other words, there is enough open space to safely hunt where I grew up.

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Here are some photos from my sister’s jobs at the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks:

Testing bighorn sheep outside of Alder, Montana.

Emily

Emily worked on a sampling team during the late season cow elk hunt in Gardiner and in the Madison Valley in 2008.  She took tissue samples from elk gut piles in order to test them for brucellosis and chronic wasting disease.

A herd of Elk in the Madison Flats on the run.