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Home / Wingmen / Non-Traditional Dog Training with Todd Helms | Wingmen Podcast #138
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In this episode of the Wingmen Podcast host Todd Helms gets honest about what the life of a hunting dog, that’s also a pet, looks like this time of year.
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Home / Wingmen / Socializing Your Hunting Dog
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Everyone knows that socializing a puppy is vital to their well rounded development.
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4 weeks ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms
It’s about balance! The life of most hunting dogs is one that involves much more “off-season” living than hunting days. As much as we all would like to hunt more, our dogs included, the reality is that very few hunters get more than 15-20 days in the field each year. That means our “hunting dogs” spend more time as pets than hardcore hunting machines.
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms
Home / Free Content / Helicopter-Hunting Still Legal In Montana Free Content, General, Montana, Public Lands 5 Views “Hunters flying in to a landlocked spot will have to wait 24 hours before they can legally hunt under the new bill.” Using a helicopter to access landlocked parcels of public land is becoming more popular in places like Montana, much to the chagrin of folks without the inclination or money to utilize the method of transportation. Nevermind that folks wanting to access the...
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms
$2.5 Million will be going into Montana’s public access account in order to open up more Block Management ground for hunting access. Good news right? Well, yes and no…Montana, like the rest of us, can’t just print money so that $2.5 Million has to come from someplace and that someplace will be an increase in cost to the base hunting license for non-resident hunters. Right now the non-resident base hunting license cost is $15, but HB 145, signed into law by Gov.
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms
Nice work to everyone who took the time to send your elected representatives a message, email or made a call to express your opposition to the proposed sale of 1.5 million acres of your public land in Nevada and Utah. That’s how “government of the people, by the people, for the people…,” is supposed to work and it appears that it has indeed done just that. I would also encourage you to send a thank you for listening message as well.
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms
Home / California / California Wolves Don’t Fear Humans California, Free Content, General, Predator, Wolves 400 Views Modoc, Plumas, Sierra and Shasta county officials have recently declared that the wolves they’ve been forced to live in close proximity to are a threat to the well being of the people. In other words, those folks are afraid that the wolves, who have a penchant for killing livestock in and around homes and ranches, have grown complacent toward humans thanks to California laws...
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms
“Get to tha choppa!” If this headline had appeared on April 1st instead of May 4th nobody would have taken it seriously. That’s just how outlandish an act three Montana National Guardsmen pulled off last week outside of Big Timber, Montana. The three men in question, landed a Blackhawk helicopter on private land, jumped out and scooped up brown elk sheds worth thousands of dollars.
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms
The time to delist grizzly bears and turn over management to the States they inhabit has been staring us in the face for a long time now. However, constant roadblocks and moving goalposts have kept delisting from becoming a reality. Fingers crossed, a delisting can move forward now; better late than never! For those of us who live with grizzly bears and have had Federal management shoved down our throats the prospect of a delisting is welcome news.
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms
If you love hunting elk and deer then you should be hunting black bears, period. I could obviously leave this blog right there but there’s more to it. As big game hunters we need to do our part in managing predators and recent studies have shown that harvesting black bears, in the spring in particular, can have a profound impact on calf and fawn recruitment.
