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The Big Horn valley is unlikely to have bears or lions. If you don't plan to get drunk at night and go on a ramapage, you won't need to be armed. Ask your guide.

What, Are you worried about being scalped?
It's a fishing trip for chrissakes.

Be more concerned about sun screen, and not leaving the Bolle's at the restaurant.

If you haven't figured out by now that it's a poor tourist town, populated by lifestyle choosers, you are missing what's what.

Leave the fire power home, and save yourself the grief.

Go and have Fun.

No one is after you.

I agree

But if by chance anyone asks you to call a coin flip, call heads.


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Don�t stoke the paranoid�s,Chighur.
It�s a tourist town.

They�re going to ride from the lodge to the boat launch by the dam, float down the Yellowstone nymphing for rainbows and browns, and they�re going to take out at the 3 mile landing, where all the guys will be waiting with their float boat trailers.

There are no bears you�re more likely to run into an unconscious homeless person then you are any sort of predatory mammal.

I can�t guarantee, that a tourist who is carrying/brandishing a SideArm, for whatever his personal reasons are, that that might not affect the quality of their trip., Or the tenor of their interactions with the guides and locals.

I had no idea what I had started here. Jeeze! It's the Bighorn, actually, not the Yellowstone and we're planning on wade fishing (although a float trip isn't out of the question). I'm so used-to having something along on my various expeditions in Wyoming and Montana that it seemed quite normal to do so. The Rez is a very different animal, no question.

Sorry Lloyd,
Worrying about concealed or open carry on an Indian reservation is a very very minor detail in my life. I wouldn�t let it ruin a destination fishing trip with my son. I wouldn�t let it complicate a destination fishing trip with my son. I�m sorry if I said Yellowstone instead of Big Horn I should�ve said Yellowtail dam.

Lloyd, if you read any of the trout magazines, the trip you�re planning to take is carefully explained in a whole bunch of them there�s an article or two every year doing exactly what you�re about to do.

Because there are cattle ranches all along the river there, there is fencing from the Highwater mark all along the river, to keep the cattle from breaking down the river banks. I think there�s some law in Montana that says Everybody is allowed to wade the river outside the fencing.
There are signs all about it along the river.
I stayed at the Cottonwood camp, did the float, hunted Huns on the neighboring farms, hooked up with the guy from the Cottonwood camp, and shot geese in some pasture around there somewhere, and then hunted ducks down on the islands at the 3 mile landing.
No firearms issues.

Everybody in the whole town was nice and friendly. But, the people that support the tourists were poor. There was no grocery store, and people placed their order for a delivery once or twice a week, where they all picked up their stuff by the laundromat.
The people jetting into the Orvis endorsed lodges and what not, weren�t. That�s just life in the outdoors on a big river ie lifestyle choice.
It was definitely worth it being a homeless outdoor guy, camping with all of the other transients down by the river.
You�re going to have a great trip, don�t make it needlessly complicated.

If you�ve looked at this trip in any of the magazines, you know that it�s all about the flow. It�s beautiful open country.

There are many reasons people come from all over the world to fish there.

So, if there are no bears, and there are no war parties of Indians looking for scalps, there's no reason to carry?

Yeah, right.

SRH

I�m not for one second thinking to over worry about the wildlife, but I wouldn�t be surprised at all to catch a glimpse of bear or mountain lion. The mountain lions definitely range down into the plains. Heck, a young grizzly was spotted just outside of Great Falls last summer. The critters will be around, but in an interesting way. Keep your eyes peeled for deer in the road, I�ve had the pleasure of hitting three MT white tails, but they�re probably like that here and there n CO.

The only thing I don�t quite understand is CZ�s consistent references to the riff raff that someone might run into. Anyway, absolutely enjoy the fishing.

Presuming, because I'm not sure after all that's been posted here, that Montana is not yet a gun free zone, and carry is permitted except for the reservation maybe, and the courthouse, I would not be deterred from carrying a firearm there if it is allowed by state law. I don't care about need. I'd just stay off the reservation and out of the courthouse..Geo