Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Report. East Montana, when they say dry, it's dry!

Boatammo, you are correct! Hope we get some rain Saturday, and we get the cooler weather they're predicting.

Haven't burned my garbage dump since the first week of June. Grasshoppers ate anything that the cows didn't get. So dry and dusty that my lab kicks up a dust cloud when I work him in the evening. Most of the deer and antelope fawns died over the summer when their mamas dried up. It's flat miserable over here on the Big Dry. We'll still get half the state of Washington over here to kill the few deer we have left though.

Im bird hunting now I E Montana Forgive me.grasshoppers have been good for huns

Chuckle...damn things better be good for something!

Ya caught me, Sidney Montana that is😆.

The beet harvest is underway, be careful to those traveling around this area.

I love that area.

I also love your big black forend.

Dry here in ND also. Friend is combining 13 bushel beans. Glad I quit farming. Edk

I cover a bit of dryland country. Seen plenty. Late dry summer is nothing unusual. This was more severe. It looked absolutely dead. Like nothing grew up this year. The bunchgrass looked awful. Mostly it wasn't at all an over grazed appearance.

Saw nearby a batch of cows and calves getting split up. Darn buggers looked small compared to what's normal. But, I don't know chit about ag.

Good Luck guys.

Remsen, did you put any rounds out that Turbo on your walk?

I did, way more than I expected to. I can't say I was terribly impressed with the T2 can compared to the Sandman Ti I had been using on the AR. With the Sandman it's about as loud as an unsuppressed 22 shooting standard velocity rounds. The T2 makes it just the right side of hearing safe, but only barely. The Sandman is just too long for my ARs, though, and the T2 works for this purpose. I have a Resonator in jail right now that might end up being the AR can if it can split the difference between the T2 and the Sandman for length and effectiveness.

Here, in southeastern BC, we have lakes which have dried up for the first time in over fifty years. The truth is, we have had three dry years in a row with low snow levels over the winter. GD

ribka - In this area the native upland birds didn't amount to much, despite literal clouds of hoppers. To the north, the huns and sharptail seem to have thrived. I think there was a better balance of hoppers to grains up there. No offense of the WA comment, it's more a point of fact than a complaint. There are just a LOT of WA folks that come out and spend time here in the fall and they typically like to shoot as many critters as the state will sell them licenses for.