Flynn Ranch Vacations/Hunting

Flynn Ranch vacations are unique. Your hosts will be sons of the pioneers, fourth or fifth generation Montanans who will guide and instruct you on every aspect of operating, living on, and enjoying a 15,000 acre cattle ranch. The maximum number of guests booked is four per week. You will receive personalized instruction on everything from saddling and caring for your own horse to keeping your rod tip up when playing a trout in fast water.

Your quarters will be newly constructed bunkhouse with shared bathroom facility or teepees or under the stars while on one of the many cattle drives throughout the summer months.

There will be a lot of horseback riding. We do not accept novice riders and highly recommend previous riding experiences as this will not be a walk down a bridle path.

Our days begin early with a hearty breakfast and almost always include a picnic lunch somewhere near a mountain stream. Dinners are generally at the home ranch but oftentimes we have barbecues at one of the mountain cabins. Special menus are available on request.

You will take part in such activities such as calf branding (May), herding cattle, fixing barbed-wire fences, irrigating, hauling salt blocks and putting up hay. Plan to put in long hours, typically 7:00 am to 9:00 pm; however, there will always be time for fly fishing lessons, photographic opportunities, wildlife viewing and a myriad of other activities that occur during the course of a ranch day's work.

Occasionally during the summer months there will be slack days when guests will have time to take in activities off the ranch. Some of these activities include a canoe float on the Missouri River, gold panning on Confederate Gulch, day/overnight trips to either Glacier or Yellowstone National Park, excursions to the Museum of the Rockies, day trips to a ghost town (Virginia City), visits to other local museums as well as shopping trips to either Helena or Bozeman.

The Flynn Ranch has premium elk and mule deer hunts. The bow hunting commences the first week of September with high success rates of trophy bull elk. The rifle season starts the fourth Sunday of October. We provide either fully guided or semi-guided hunts for elk, mule deer, and white tail deer.

Hunts are conducted on foot or horseback on approximately 25,000 acres in the Big Belt Mountains east of Townsend. Lodging is in mountain cabins or back at the ranch.