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Blog--Our Two Cents from Twin Creek
Prairie Dog Madness
Twin Creek Ranch hosted two very special groups of prairie dog
hunters during the last week of June. Our first group for the
year was sponsored by Smith and Wesson with Robbie Robbins in
attendance. During the two days of shooting this great group
of guys put plenty of rounds down range at prairie varmints with
their Thompson Center tricked out guns.
Our second group was sponsored by Browning, Winchester and
Bushnell Optics and included some heavy hitters in the outdoor
writing world. These included Wayne Van Zwoll, John Haviland
and Ron Spoomer. These guys can more than write about it they
can shoot. The longes recorded hit was well over 600 yards
documented wit hthe new Bushnell range finding bino. If you are
needing a pair of laser range finding binos give these a serious
look. They really impressed all of us. Good shooting, lots of
targets from 100-700 yards What a place!
Spring Birds
A healthy population of all of Hungarian Partridge, Sharp tailed
Grouse and Pheasants is what makes Twin Creek great and we are
committed to seeing our feathered friends through the winter.
Wild game birds can easily sustain during the worst weather if
three key components are close at hand. Cover, available feed
and grit to help digest the feed. Here we leave miles after
miles of native grasslands intact. We even plant and irrigate
areas to produce extremely thick snow resilient cover for wither
survival. This winter holding cover is strategically planted
next to feeding and grain fields. This makes it easy for the
birds to "hole up" when ole man winter shakes his fist at the
ranch.
 As
we harvest grain, alfalfa and barley there is always a few rows
on the outside of each field to cover for the birds winter feed. Another
problem with hard crusted snow and ice on the fields and roads
is that pheasants cannot get to the grit they need to process
the food they are getting. Each
week we have taken a scraping blade and worked up the edges of
the local roads to expose the small rocks that serve as grit for
pheasants and other game birds. It
is amazing, one hour after running the scraper down the road the
roadside is lined with birds picking up the much needed gravel.
Although these steps may sound labor and machinery extensive as
well as financially costly with the price of diesel at over
$3.50 we have a profound commitment to provide the healthiest
completely wild bird population in the west.
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Montana Roosters Sporting Dog Adventures
Shooting Sportsman Magazine May/June 2013