Montana
2005 - 2012


Bitteroot Mountains

2012 Trip
2010 Trip
2007 Trip
2005 Trip

 

 

 

 

 

 


September 2012


Spanish Creek area


Spanish Creek area


On Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch


Bison on Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch


Bison on Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch


White tail deer on Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch


Ennis main street


Pronghorn antelope


Horses in the Elliots' neighboring pasture


A day at the Elliott range


Emily with her "new to her" Colt Woodsman .22


Dave with Rick's Glock 19 9mm


Rick with Dave's Kimber Stainless Gold Match II .45


Kimber results


Rick's results with Dave's Browing High Power 9mm


Rick with his Glock 19 9mm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
May 2010


May 24, 2010 - snow near Butte


Okay, we don't get it


Carol and Dave Elliott in their log home at Gallatin Gateway


The guest room at Elliott Lodge


The firing range at the Elliotts


Emily on the range


Emily with a .380 "belly gun" - note ejected round


Dave firing Rick's Glock 26 9mm, or as we call it, "combat tupperware"


Not a bad place to shoot....


Carol with her antique Colt Woodsman


Sunrise over the Elliott spread


Sunrise over the Bridger Mountains - from the Elliotts


Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch - across from the Elliotts


One of the homesteads on the Flying D


Mountain goats


Bison on the Flying D


Male bison on the Flying D...


...giving us the eye


Mama bear


...and junior


Mule deer watching the bears


Antelope


Where the antelope play...


Antelope


Sandhill crane


Killdeer


Killdeer trying to lure me away from the nest with the "I'm injured and an easy target" display


American kestrel


Kestrel "kiting" over prey


Loggerhead shrike


Western kingbird


Red tail hawk on the Flying D


Taking flight


Eastern kingbird


Common merganser on the Flying D


Magpie in flight


Western bluebird


Pheasant not happy with our presence


Caspian tern


Cinnamon teal


Tree swallows

 


Okay if you live near fishing and get it


You can't make this stuff up...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


June 2007


The Elliott spread


Horse and newborn mule


Dave as a blacksmith interpreter at the Museum of the Rockies


Dave on the range


Carol on the range

 

Emily on the range

 

Rick on the range


Local visitor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



March 2005

 


Home on the range


There was snow, but not enough to ski


Iron sights - "agency" stance


Sleigh ride dinner


Carol Elliott and Emily


Missouri River


On the road home