September in MONTANA! Wild Birds in Wild Places Part 3 (Finale) 

Thanks for watching man!

Thanks for watching!

Awesome - thanks for watching! Good luck this season 💪🏻

Really appreciate that Richie! Sending good vibes your way for a successful season!

@@UplanderLifestyle of coarse keep making awesome upland designs and I’ll keep buying! And Thank you!!

Thank you!

Thanks Will! I run the Garmin 550 Pro for training collar and the T5 mini collars for tracking paired with the Astro 430 gps handheld.

@@UplanderLifestyle excellent thanks for reply and doing the videos! Heading out to west myself next week and getting excited

Thanks Luis! My semi is a 12 gauge. Some cheaper brand shells use less powder, and it doesn't always give the gun enough kick to eject the shell and rack the next one. Keep trying different loads and see what works.

Thanks Scott, best of luck the rest of season!

It takes a bit for the younger dogs to get back on track, but for the mot part prairie grouse are similar to ruffs, they don't take pressure and they don't run like pheasants, so they're similar to ruffs just without trees.

Thanks for watching Todd! Montana is paradise.

Thanks for following along Jim! I run the Garmin Instinct watch paired to my GPS handheld and tracking collar.

They are American Brit’s

It’s a 20

It is a stoeger

Thank you! Good to hear from you, hope you’ve been having a good season. Good luck the rest of the year.

Thanks for watching Mark!

When you drive from Michigan to Montana to hunt public land that is funded from that states taxpayers don’t expect the residents of that state to step aside for you when they pay for that ground & watch that wildlife year round. If it’s that big of a concern then pay to hunt private property where you have control over who is hunting otherwise STFU.

@@roydriskill8342 to be fair, I’ve never asked anyone to “step aside for me”, or anyone for that matter. Also, did I say they were residents? They were non residents, actually. And to be fair again, public ground is public ground that is open to the whole country, regardless of how it’s funded, and it’s not just funded through tax payer money by individual states. In no way am I trying to takes anyones rights away to hunt a spot, but some common sense and courtesy goes a long ways in situations like this. I live and hunt in a destination state where people travel to hunt. But if I showed up to one of my spots one morning and a vehicle was parked there, regardless if it was a resident or non resident hunter I would move on to hunt the next spot… there is plenty of land to do that. A ruffed grouse isn’t MY ruffed grouse just because I live here.

@@UplanderLifestyle to be fair you sounded like a over privileged prick when you saw others come in to hunt public ground & still do when you say one of my spots. The majority of the cost IS funded by the states tax payers also. A small portion comes from the license you purchase to hunt there. If this were federal ground then it would be a equal amount paid by all, but you obviously have no idea how Montana or most any state fund State grounds. I’ve seen it before where a couple guys think they should have a place all to themselves, looked like a pretty expansive piece of ground to me & sounded like you believe because you were there first that day that you believe the 2 of you should have it all to yourself. Well that’s not how public ground works. You are correct in saying public ground is open to all no matter how it is funded, so you should also realize that just because you are using it doesn’t mean others can’t till you leave. I am lobbying in my state to change the the rules of state ground for use by the states residents only. Explain to me how you think state ground is funded if not mostly by the states residents tax dollars?

@@roydriskill8342 It sounds like your vendetta here is just against out of state hunters in general. Lobbying to make public lands not public to all sounds like a slippery slope - the opportunity for all is what makes our country so great. I may not pay taxes in other states, but I pay taxes in my own state for land to be managed where everyone else has the same opportunity to come here and use it like I am going to other states to hunt on publicly funded ground. It is a balancing act and in the end it all equals out, you may pay taxes but I am also paying taxes for you to have access to things as well. I don't have an issue of people hunting the same spot I am hunting, it just comes down to situational awareness. The spot I was at hunted small, it was just one draw surrounded by private, it really was not that big. Deer hunting would be one thing here, or if it was a large block of land where people could spread out and not run into each other, no problem. But at this spot in particular, if two separate groups are upland hunting they are going to run into each other in this spot. The terrain was very hilly, and I had no idea anyone else was there hunting, what if they would have crested a hill just as I shot, or vice versa? Also when dogs are involved you never know how one dog is going to react to another random dog it encounters, regardless of how well behaved your dog is - stuff happens, and if a dog fight happens now you're looking at a vet visit. Certainly all of these things are a risk you take when hunting public ground, but in my opinion they are completely avoidable by making the decision to go hunt somewhere else if someone is already at a spot you were thinking of hunting, that is my point in a nutshell. Common courtesy goes a long ways when hunting public ground vs the mind set of "well its public so lets hunt it regardless". There is so much land available its not worth the risk of everything and more I mentioned above. This isn't a case of me trying to hog a spot to myself, or hoard a large section of land as if it was my own, in my opinion it is just common sense when you are hunting publicly accessible land.

@@UplanderLifestyle first off there is no vendetta as you would put it, get that straight! Secondly you missed my entire point. Not every hunter can afford to take on the expense of traveling long distances to hunt like you. Therefore the use of public lands in their home state & quality of their hunt is limited by those who can taking advantage of those who pay for that ground without the choice to not pay for it. I have hunted in other states but hunt federal public ground. Also I would like to address your cresting a hill scenario, you should know your target & what is beyond before shooting a basic firearm safety rule. As for the dogs, on public ground aswell as in the public in general you need to be in control of your animal just like everyone else should be.