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Article: Montana mix. (hunting deer and pheasants; includes information about wood-carving shop in Manhattan, Montana) (Windows In Time)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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TIME ENOUGH TO REST WHEN IT'S WINTER. While autumn lasts, you want to hunt all day. You could chase birds, for example, in between morning and evening hunts for big game. A Montana pheasant bottom always seems to have deer tracks somewhere in soft ground near the water, and the bucks could be bedded down nearby in tall grass planted under the Conservation Reserve Program. Then again, they might have retreated to the foothills before dawn. That's why it's called hunting.
Methods for fur and feather could hardly be more different, but they do good for you, both of them. The deer time is quiet--a suppressed shiver before sunup, a magpie scolding in the crystal ...