Upland Game Bird Hunting

Upland game bird hunting in South-Central Montana is no longer a secret. The Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River valley all the way down into Wyoming, and the surrounding Pryor mountains foothills to the east, on the Crow Indian reservation, offer spectacular hunting opportunities for sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge, and ring-necked pheasant. When I was growing up in northwest Wyoming around Cody, you could almost always get access to bird hunting on most ranches, just by stopping in and asking permission from the landowners. But those days have long since disappeared. Today, most game-rich ranches in northern Wyoming and south-central