Early this spring I went with my son for a walk to look for antler sheds down on the river bottom. He found some sheds and I found my buck!
The Garden & Gun magazine website has a photo piece on a great pheasant hunt on the Bighorn River here in Montana we did this last October. I got to borrow my neighbor Gifford Cochran’s yellow lab to take with us and she was amazing. Good photographing, good hunting, best kind of company. When you can’t hunt… take a look and dream!
Thank you for all your support, and have happy holidays!
Here is the latest article from my good friend Eddy Nickens in the December issue of Sporting Classics 2010. Photo of my father Julius Smetana and five years old me.
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My family have harvested the garden — that’s the vegetables — and now it’s time to go after the meat. Eight pheasants from Eastern Montana are a good start but now we need the red meat to have the full-on, organic meals…
One of my favorite months is here! Elk are bugling in the mountains, aspen leaves are turning yellow. I just got back from fishing on the Bighorn River for three days with my friend Mike Fitzgerald of Frontier Travel. Casting dry flies to rising trout there was very exciting. I had a good friend hunt on my place and he harvested a very nice buck this morning. He used traditional archery with a recurve bow and wooden arrows. It was beautiful to photograph and it should make a nice photo story. Congratulations to Rich!
Everything is happening right now — good fishing, bowhunting, harvests, wildlife photography. If only I had two Septembers and three Octobers…
