Hi Alice; My Father and Grandfather were hunting for subsistance (granted they were in Minnesota, not Montana) as late as the 1940's. Maybe they just liked hunting :)

I guess the fact that hunting was "forbidden" by 21st century law and not an option for the participants at all was kind of a sticking point with me.

It's probably just nit picking on my part, but there was widespread hunting in the 1880's.