You Won’t Strike Out When Hunting With Central
Montana Outfitters
Take a Break And Hunt Pheasants And Partridges
 Editor’s
Note: I love to do any type of hunting. I’ve learned
many years ago that some of the biggest white-tailed
deer in the nation live in the Northwest. And, although
I love to hunt mule deer, I truly enjoy hunting big
whitetails.
The second and third days of my hunt were much like
my first. I‘d see several 8-point bucks with about
18 inches of inside spread of their main beams and other
smaller bucks each day. However, the big whitetail buck
I wanted to take always appeared out in the middle of
the field, 300-400 yards from any cover .
So, on the third and fourth days of my hunt, I decided
to short-cut my morning hunts and spend the middle of
those days hunting the plentiful Hungarian partridge
and pheasant. Dale Yonkin, the chief guide with Central
Montana Outfitters, owns a German wire-haired pointer
named Woodrow that he keeps in camp with him to take
clients bird hunting, if they tag out early. “Now,
John, don’t go out there and try to walk Dale
down,” Chad Schearer the owner of Central Montana
Outfitters told me. “We had some young fellows
who came out earlier this year and told me they really
wanted to get after their bird hunting. They wanted
to get it and go and didn’t want to have to wait
on a guide, as if to say that they thought Dale would
slow them d own.
However, by the time they’d spent a day stomping
the brush and flushing birds on our property, they asked
Dale if they could go a little slower next time.”
When I climbed in the truck with Yonkin, I explained
to him, “You’ve lived in these mountains
longer than I have, you’re younger than I am,
and you weigh less than I do. I know you can walk faster,
longer and further than I can. So, I prefer to take
 our
hunt slow – have a good time, flush some birds
and take some birds. But, we’re not going to try
to see how far and how fast we can go – if that’s
o.k. with you.” Yonkin smiled the smile of understanding
and said, “We’ll go at your pace –whatever
your pace is. We’ll find some birds and have a
good time.” And, true to his word, that was exactly
what our bird hunts were like. These hunts added exercise
and fun to the long hours of waiting for whitetails
to appear.
To learn more about CVA’s top-quality black-powder
guns, click on www.cva.com.
For more information on Central Montana Outfitters,
call or email Chad Schearer, www.centralmontanaoutfitters.com;
chad@centralmontanaoutfitters.com;
(406) 727-4478
Tomorrow: Change Terrain, and
Hunt Another Big White-Tailed Buck
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