The Montana Experience

18 Recommended Restaurants From Belgrade to Big Sky

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Wether you have just arrived into southwest, MT for skiing, hiking, a one in a life time experience in Yellowstone, or…

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Winter Fly Fishing on the Madison

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Reasons We Love Montana Summers

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Rental Spotting Scopes for Yellowstone National Park

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Helinox Table One Hard Top Camping Table

At less than one kilogram, Table One Hard Top is the perfect portable table for work or leisure.

The hard top is comprised of rigid panels sewn into a single fabric piece that folds up for storage.

The 60 cm by 40 cm hard top is a great work surface for a laptop computer or tablet. Great for photographers – connect and download images from the camera without juggling the laptop on your knees.

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Helinox Chair One Camp Chair

Offering never-seen-before levels of strength, comfort and compactness, Chair One has revolutionized the camping chair market since its introduction in 2012. Now considered a true icon of lightweight design, Chair One continues to win the hearts of walkers, cyclists, sea kayakers, pilots, adventure motorcyclists and outdoor adventurers throughout Australia and New Zealand.

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Buying vs. Renting Bear Spray

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Bozeman to Big Sky Rental Cars

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SW Montana Ski/Snow Update 2/9/2019

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We turned around and headed back to check that field out to be completely sure. Once we were positive it was huntable, we didn’t want to spook all the birds in the field and thought we would save it for Sunday morning. We ended up throwing some duck decoys in some backwater of the Missouri River just across the road. We sat for around 3 hours with no luck, although the flocks of geese were coming back to roost just on the other side of the river, never giving us a close enough shot.

After seeing all the geese coming back to the river, we thought it would be a good time to jump on the field, hoping not as many birds were on it. We left the river and rushed to the other side of the road toting a mess of decoys a few hundred yards to the field to set up. We only spooked a handful of birds but knew they would be back that night to feed. We made our set of decoys and brushed in a 3 person blind using tumbleweed and a corner fence post and topped it off with whatever other kind of grass we could find.

It started out slow, but after half an hour waiting, they started to pour into the fields. It was one flock after the next, and sometimes we didn’t even have time to grab the downed birds in the field before the next flock of 6 or 7 put their landing gears on to settle in the field. At times, our young dog, Brooks, was hauling through the field chasing a wounded goose and doing the best he could to bring it back (geese are the same size as him at this point). After just 2 hours, we had a 3 man limit of 12 birds and a few boxes of shells were bone dry. We had to make a trip that night into Great Falls to grab more shells for the next day.

We got to the field well before sunrise the next morning and were ready to go before sun up. It was much slower in the morning only having one flock come in and downing 2. So there we sat for the next 6 hours living off donuts and elk jerky until the birds started to move again. Around 3:00 in the afternoon, the bigger groups started to split up making it easier to fool a handful of birds at a time. We ended up with 10 more for the day on the account of poor shooting. But all in all, it was a great weekend and the ol’ boom-stick got a great workout in!

A Definitive Ranking of Freeze Dried Backpacking Meals

We’ve all been there.  You’ve been backpacking for miles and after setting up camp, you take the ultimate gamble and take a bite out of your freeze-dried meal.  There are a wealth of pros to using those meals like saving the space and weight in your pack, not having to bring so many cooking supplies, and not having to cook anything. But it’s no secret that freeze-dried meals can wreak havoc on…

It has been one hard month of hunting the elusive wapiti in the mountains of Southwest Montana. The worst part is, I have nothing to show for it and my freezer is bone dry.

Opening weekend, I thought for sure we would get a bull elk down on the ground. The first evening walking around the mountains, we came across a few bulls and a cow grazing in a meadow. Unfortunately, it took us an hour to…