Traveled a nontypical route for me, US12 from Helena to I94...

Some bitch it is insanely dry! Roundup to Big Porcupine Cr west of Forsyth, no deer, no antelope and NO beef. Nary a tweety bird, nor prairie dog, nor bugs hitting the windshield. Last remaining puddles on the Roundup end had some quackers.

All brown 'cept a few feet on both sides of the highway.


Insane.

That's the report.

yea it sucks....

at least down here in Utah/Arizona we've been getting rain

desert stock ponds are full

more rain & soon snow coming next week...

this pic...desert stock pond F U L L

critters luv it !

Surely you saw road killed deer, or at least red spots thereof. Especially east of Roundtown where the highway parallels the river and they cross twice a day to get to the irrigated ground along the river. No?

I'm right off of 12 around White Sulphur and it's been bone dry since the last snow melted. I was pretty concerned about lighting strikes until the local cattle grazed everything to dirt. Even now, though, you hear crackling as you walk around when usually it's silent. Plenty of wildlife, though.

Hot damn! A jewish lawyer packing a suppressed AR on his walk! Wish all your ethnicity and all who share your occupation were as correct. We’d have a lot of problems whipped, methinks.

The section mentioned appeared new to me. If I had been through there trucking, it'd been in the dark. Generally, Id be north, GF to Miles City or south swinging through Townsend to BigB.

The survey started somewhere east of Roundup. No fresh death observed. Most desolate SOB highway stretch I ever seen somewhere not specifically called a desert. It may not have rained all year? Severe looking. No green weeds even.

Roadkills. A week ago, late Monday morning, the route was Helena to Ennis to Rexburg. No exaggeration, fifteenish fresh bodies. Carnage.
God's Country. Our shared God? Hold on, I'm not sure how that works. 😁 Love that sagebrush country.

When you go to Bozeman, there's a route over west through Sedan. My momma is from there, a once thriving suburb of Wilsal...

Was the foot wear was a damn giveaway?

Holy Schit! Remsen is Jewish? Hell I thought he was polish......

It's been extremely dry since June in the west. In N. Idaho it's more timber country and we had record temps with no rain and fires. Now it's rained and it's cool and you'd have a hard time starting a fire now. We have rain and snow coming.

It could be an elaborate hoax?

Well, he is a lawyer...😉

I resemble that remark.....





...the polish part.

Remsen, I've hunted your neighborhood.
Neat country but no luck, just haven't hit it right.

I live in Glendive it's been DRY since last July 2020.

I am up in Sydney/Fairview. Dry as a bone.

Boatammo, are going to the auction Saturday in glendive?

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God's Country. Our shared God? Hold on, I'm not sure how that works. 😁 Love that sagebrush country.

When you go to Bozeman, there's a route over west through Sedan. My momma is from there, a once thriving suburb of Wilsal...
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I know that area well. I take 86 to my property in spring and summer (I usually go up through Livingston on 89 when there's snow) and Sedan is, I believe, just on the other side of this very nasty 90 degree bend in the road that has a 70 mph sign that seems to be a way to separate out the tourists from the locals.

You and me both. It's like being part of a family where most of the others are criminals or worse, and they ruin your otherwise good name. And then they screw up the country to make matters worse.

Sydney?

😁

My buddy just left here to drive to Glendive to see his folks.

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.