Yet another use for notebooks: keeping a hunting journal!

It is surprising how easy it is to find hunters who keep journals to document their days afield. The formats are diverse — pocket-sized spiral-bound notebooks, hard-covered lined journals, even folders or binders with room for maps, regulation books, photos and old hunting licenses.

“I use a 5-inch by 7-inch spiral notebook with a hard cover my wife bought for me before I went to Alaska in 2008,” said Jared Lampton, a Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks fisheries technician in Libby. “I taped a picture of her helping me pack out a mule deer on the inside cover.”

Some hunters say they keep a journal because it is satisfying to know, for example, where they hunted opening day of the general big game season in 1989. Others record what they observed during the hunt….

Read more at Hunters go out, armed with pens, to document adventures | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune.

I love finding stories like this, but I’m always disappointed when they don’t have photos! I want to see some of those hunting journals!