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It may have been Tamid, I read about it in the Great Falls newspaper at a diner. There's generally good pheasant numbers around Choteau, and it's a pretty good area for waterfowl. A couple of summers back, a young grizzly was poking around the edge of Great Falls, heck two weeks ago I saw a few ewe bighorns down on the plains a bit east of Choteau. Sometimes, I think critters can be widely out of place, and can hide in seemingly sparse areas, let alone in thick cover where they are supposed to be.

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I am nearing the end of Stephen Ambrose’s book on Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of Discovery. It seems it didn’t take very long for their dismissive opinion of the “White Bear” (the plains’ grizzly) to be tempered by first hand encounter.

From…
“The men as well as ourselves are anxious to meet with some of these bear,”

To the admission that they were a…
“…much more furious and formidable anamal…” than the black bears they were used to in the east.

To finally…
“…these bear being so hard to die reather intimedates us all; I must confess that I do not like the gentlemen and had reather fight two Indians than one bear.”

(The Corps carried U.S. Model 1803 .54 caliber flintlocks with 33” barrels.)


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Originally Posted by FallCreekFan
I am nearing the end of Stephen Ambrose’s book on Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of Discovery. It seems it didn’t take very long for their dismissive opinion of the “White Bear” (the plains’ grizzly) to be tempered by first hand encounter.

From…
“The men as well as ourselves are anxious to meet with some of these bear,”

To the admission that they were a…
“…much more furious and formidable anamal…” than the black bears they were used to in the east.

To finally…
“…these bear being so hard to die reather intimedates us all; I must confess that I do not like the gentlemen and had reather fight two Indians than one bear.”

(The Corps carried U.S. Model 1803 .54 caliber flintlocks with 33” barrels.)

Fantastic book.


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The article detailed the main reason why PWHs do NOT want anyone in their party carrying a firearm with a sling or strap.. Wise policy indeed.


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