Who was the guide?

 

I am not sure, they just called it the CA ranch and said they hunt there often.

 

"ca ranch Montana" was it a ranch 'in' Montana or California??? What were they hunting?

 

They are hunting on a friend of will primos ' ranch, frank Anderson is his name if I remember correctly. I don't believe the ranch outfits hunts.

 

That episode,,,,, Anderson has his own family ranch and the other elk Montana ranch they hunt is owned by Ted turner and cost 14g's to hunt it.... That ranch is through outfitter Ron arnaud

 

I believe the CA ranch is the Climbing Arrow Ranch near Three Forks. Would not surprise me if they were on Turners Ranch south of Bozo.

 

I thought CA was for Charles Anderson Ranch. Frank,. one of his kids was/is .. running the CA Ranch North of me here in Bozeman. Look up Charles Anderson or Frank Anderson in the Bozeman Area Phone Book. They are in the white pages and they will probably talk to you if you have your check book in your hand. Good Luck

 

Correction "rob" arnaud

 

I had a brother in law that worked on the CA years ago. He was based in Manhatten which is in between bozeman and three forks. I guess I never heard who owns it now.

The ranch that Turner owns south of bozeman and over towards ennis is the Flying D. I had uncles cowboy there in the 50's and 60's. Great history on that ranch. I seen a show of them hunting buffalo on there with Jack brittingham.

 

Are they in the big belts or little belts.

 

Get your facts straight. If you're going to talk about my family's ranch, at least get the name right. Ridiculous. And we only take clients we've had for years, you probably shouldn't even try.

 

Well now, why don't you correct the inconsistencies for everyone then? Why would we want to hunt with anyone with your attitude anyways? We can think of some wonderful ranch names that use CA as initials....and we won't be kind.

 

https://vimeo.com/111167644

Attitude aside this was a good video. It definitely takes a chunk of of the rainbow to hunt this place though.

The person who posted could be anyone. It could also be her time of the month.

 

Amazing video...crappy attitude.

 

This ^^^^^. Great scene at 10min.

 

i guess 15-20k hunts are sensitive subjects.

 

Interesting thread.

 

You think?

 

Hahaha

 

One of the most fantastic places on earth and the most caring and professional family around...the Andersons. I love it there and have spent a fair amount of time watching elk on the CA. Hunting is by invite only because of the reasonable price.

 

Define "reasonable"

 

Interesting reading
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.co...access-to-significant-amounts/article_458366c0-53d7-11e3-a1c7-001a4bcf887a.html

 

interesting link...thx for posting

 

A helicopter into that public land would ruffle their feathers and they couldn't do a thing about it. Not cheap but doable if split three or four ways. Way cheaper than 15k apiece lol

 

This is a great idea, you could even use something like a Cub that doesn't need much runway and is very inexpensive to operate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPSElw8qEsI

 

Sounds like a job for the RMEF and MDF...oh wait they already do that. I'm sure they could adopt something similar to idahos access yes program as well. Last time I checked they had conserved an ungodly amount of land in mt, but it sounds like there is a lot more to be had.

 

I think the $500 to let the public hunt your 15k elk must be a joke. I'm guessing a "reasonable price" would depend on your salary.

 

That's a shame all the public land to hunt and can't afford to hunt it. Does that seem right???

 

There's plenty of affordable public land to hunt. People just like to complain about lack of access. I guarantee you that if they somehow opened up those landlocked parcels, after a few years no one would want to hunt there anyway because everybody and their brother would have already ruined it.

At least the private landowners can limit what kind of pressure gets on those places.

 

I remember watching a Fresh Tracks episode with Randy Newberg where he flew into one of these landlocked parcels in Montana. Had a good hunt too. I only said helicopter because if they said something about motorized vehicles on these parcels you could just hover and never touch the ground lol.

 

There's actually quite a few people in Central MT that access these places via plane or helo.

 

The wildlife does belong to the people of the united states not the landowners who's land they might happen to be on. It is the states department of wildlife that is to manage the animals. Not allowing access to the public that is land locked allows the landowners/outfitters to implement "antler management" thus making their pocketbooks fatter when someone shoots a 400" bull or 200"+ mule deer. Just like all the landowners/outfitters out east.

This is nothing new and it won't change. Money talks. You have 5-10 people per year that come out and pay $15-20,000 per bull elk you have money to pay off whatever politician it takes to keep your business lucrative.

If you have the means and access to a pilot and have very good maps with strict boundary outlines and a good gps unit you could do a fly-in drop camp right smack dab in the middle of it and they couldn't do anything about it as long as you stayed on the public land.

 

could you imagine the hunt you would have smack dab in the middle of those ranches!!