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Stop by if you are in the neighborhood Jerry, my number is in the book. Livingston is 50 miles due north of Yellowstone Park.
Best,
Steve

If you like rifles as well as shotguns, stop in Big Timber and visit C. Sharps Arms and Shiloh; they're right across the street from one another. Call ahead and they'll give you a tour. (Leave your wallet with a trusted third party.....). Take just enough $ to pick up some fancy bits of walnut from their scrap pile!

If you go to the Custer Battlefield, take the time to see the Benteen and Reno sites as well. People tend to forget about the soldiers that fought and won that day (in that situation, I'd say surviving was winning enough!). And remember you have to think of the land as it was then, not the cleaned up landscape that's there now. Fighting in dense brush is even less fun when you have an enemy who just LIVES for "up close and personal"!

If you're driving up the Lamar through Yellowstone, it's only a couple miles' of hike up to one of the meadows of Slough Creek, which by this time should be just about right for some nice dry fly work. Once you get up into those meadows, it's all native cutthroats, C&R. (It is mostly uphill, but the trail is well defined.)

Last time I was out there, I landed one that went an honest 18 inches (measured against my net) and probably closer to 20.

Do make noise for the bears.

Thanks Everyone!

Jerry

I am not from Montana but if you are in Bozeman you will find Westley Richards and Hill Rod and Gun in that town.

Mike

If you haven't left yet, you might consider waiting a couple of weeks.

All of our rivers are above flood stage, many of the back roads are impassable and the gnats, ticks and skeeters are terrible. Glacier's Hwy to the Sun road was not opened as of yesterday because of still lingering snow. The snow pac in the state is/was 200 to 700 percent above normal this year.

When you come do yourself a favor and travel the back roads to all the little cow towns, logging and farming centers. They have as much and in their own way, more to offer than the tourist spots and their liesurely pace of life would be salve to someone who needs to "get away from it all".

Go north out of Livingston or Big Timber and catch the High Line, travel east to Scoby, then south to Sidney and then west to Lewistown.

If you have time, cross the mountains to Townsend and north the Helena. West to Seeley, west to Kelspell and south to Missoula. The Interstate will take you home from there, through Washington and down the coast.

Have a nice time and come back soon.

Thanks BC,

Planning on going after the 18th of this month.

Jerry

If you need or want any help that I can give, just ask. If you do pass close to Sidney, stop at the kennels and I will buy lunch.

Thanks BC. What kind of dogs do you raise?

Jerry

Jerry, we have a commercial kennel, training mostly retrievers.

Labs rule in this country, with a few Wirehairs and GSP and the occasional spaniel.

I keep Setters, a Wirehair and Labs in my personal line up, eight in all, though I probably need to start another pup this month as a back up for a seven year old.

Take a look at our web page and you can see what and who we are.

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