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Re: NE MONTANA Mule deer - week of Nov. 10-15 or 16-22?
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2013, 06:55:31 PM »
A few thoughts here.  The timing of the rut for deer is just like elk.  It does not vary by year and is not weather dependent.   The biggest buck I killed in Montana I shot on Veteran's Day during a stretch when day time highs were hitting mid to upper 80's every day.  The same day I killed mine, my wife nearly had a crack at one of the biggest deer I've ever laid eyes on.  He had his nose so far up a does hiney he didn't care we were around.  Unfortunately the does did.

A buddy of mine killed a great buck several years ago during the same time frame.  He had permission to hunt a very good private ranch.  EVERY buck we saw was with does, or looking for does.  It was also one of those magical days where there was a couple of inches of snow on the ground and sunny.  Spotting visibility was excellent.

You can have a four day blizzard the first week of November, and 80's two weeks later.  Or, vice versa.  It's all a crap shoot with the weather, but as pointed out above the one constant is that the hunting pressure will be there.  I personally have found the best hunting in Montana to be the first 10 days of November, when one factors in pressure, timing of the rut, etc.
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NE MONTANA Mule deer - week of Nov. 10-15 or 16-22?
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2013, 07:13:04 PM »
10-15 and its not even close
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Re: NE MONTANA Mule deer - week of Nov. 10-15 or 16-22?
« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2013, 07:23:54 PM »
1 more vote for 10-15th, that's when I am going  :tup:
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Re: NE MONTANA Mule deer - week of Nov. 10-15 or 16-22?
« Reply #18 on: June 29, 2013, 07:26:56 PM »
Also, the biggest whitetail I shot in MT I killed on November 1st.  I missed him the first time, why I held high I have no idea, but he didn't even look away from the doe he was chasing.  Too bad for him.  My buddy killed a 180" muley the same day, cruising the ridgetops.

Did I mention I like the first 10 days of November? 8)

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Re: NE MONTANA Mule deer - week of Nov. 10-15 or 16-22?
« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2013, 01:23:08 PM »
We hunted there last in 2011, Nov. 12-17. We saw everything from WT bucks chasing does to big muleys on the trail searching for does and bucks locked up on groups of does! I don't know how you could go wrong if you were there from the 10th to the 20th of November!
If we don't draw our antelope tags for 530 we will be buying deer combo tags for this hunt.

 


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