We hunted around Ringling, MT in 2017, it's just south of White Sulphur off highway 89. The Ringling Bar has some pretty good food and drinks. 2017 was our first year hunting Montana and we didn't get much scouting in as the gentleman that took us out guaranteed us we would run into some elk to shoot. There's lots of private around Ringling and the elk were hanging all over the private stuff, they sure know where to hide. Saw two bulls that were coming off private onto public, but the land owner (who was also an outfitter) was in the area and beat feet in his truck and scared the bulls back onto the private. None of us ever did get an elk that year, did good for whitetail though.
Planning on putting in for the big game combo for 2019, possibly going to be hunting near Bozeman. Going to be starting some e-scouting on OnX Maps in that area and looking at the public land around there. White Sulphur might be our second choice for 2019. We drove through that town multiple times in 2017 and saw some monster bulls in the back of trucks. PM if you want to chat more.
