Montana Deer

[Magnum_Willys]

Think the hard winter impacted over there much

[CaNINE]

Think the hard winter impacted over there much

Not in the SE where we hunt, at least not yet, but there is still plenty of winter left to go. 

[ElkTipper]

Lived on Glasgow AFB back in 1976.  My Dad was in the Air Force.  We hunted Bear Creek Arm of the reservoir and jumped one of the biggest bucks I have ever seen in my life.  He had been hit several times over his life by bullets that were apparent in visible scaring, could have been rut fights but looked like shots by placement.  He held so tight in the coulee and buck brush that when I crawled through on my hands and knees he had no where to go but out the other side.  It ran straight away from us zig zagging through the buck brush straight up the coulee.  When I finally made it out the other side to see him I thought it was an elk.  He had an atypical rack with branches going everywhere, huge rack and I mean huge.  I saw one other deer that someone shot from the same area and was hanging in a garage on the Air Base.  Its knee joints were strapped to the ceiling joists and its jaw/throat were laying flat on the concrete floor.  Expansive full rut neck!

We had such a great time hunting and fishing Montana.  We could shoot two deer and an antelope every year.  We would limit out on sharptail and sage hen within 25 miles of the Air Base.  We fished Porcupine creek which surrounded the base for northern pike when we were not hunting.  My high school buddies and I were always busy especially when the ducks (northerns) started flying south out of Canada.  We had ducks landing in our decoys as we were pulling them out of the water.  Never went home without a limit.  Don't hunt the Missouri Breaks unless you yourself are a mule because that is some treacherous territory.  Hunted it once with my friends and swore I would never do that again.  Not sure what its like over there in Montana now but such fond memories still prevail.  Good times!

Good Luck!

[Skyvalhunter]

Why don't you go back and hunt it?

[180-GRAIN]

In for deer and elk but wont go unless I draw a permit.

[paultanninen]

Hunting muleys. Get to high elevations.

[jstamp]

It was a pretty brutal winter over there, with feet of snow lasting into late March and april. 2nd worst winter in terms of snowfall in the fort peck area with around 88 inches. Gonna be a decent winter kill. A boat is a good thing to have, I'd hunt the south Shore of the lake. Roads will suck if it rains, and the wind will be blowing, but bucks get killed from boats. Hell creek and devils creek have launches out of jordan. Don't expect to see lots of "big bucks" most of those disappeared 20 years ago.