The pheasant opener is this Saturday so folks whose dogs are here for training are trickling in to begin the hunt.  In the last two days, 4 dog training clients with 6 additional ’sidekicks’ arrived to briefly pursue sharptails and huns prior to the pheasant opener.  They hunt on their own as I do not guide folks up here. 

I’m here to work on training dogs and would not take advantage of the land owners (block management) by guiding on their place.  I do have clients who are more friends than clients and will hunt my personal dogs with them just as anyone else would do with a friend.

After sorting through my clients hunting maps, I determined that two parties needed to visit the region 7 office in Miles City (Town of Lonesome Dove fame if you’ve seen the movie or read the book).  Twice this year clients have had to go to the region 7 office because the region … [Read more →]