Author Topic: Montana Deer (Read 54169 times)

Stein · « **Reply #105 on:** November 11, 2021, 06:25:38 PM »

That's funny, I always see a few trucks from Wisconsin where I hunt. Not sure why from there, but there are usually one or two from WA, a couple from WI and then random.

dvolmer · « **Reply #106 on:** November 11, 2021, 06:38:24 PM »

Just got home tonight. Are party shot 5 whitetail bucks and 6 mule deer bucks. Shot 4 whitetail does too. I’ll try to post some pictures when I get settled back in to normal life. Lots of meat to take care of tomorrow.

Landerfish · « **Reply #107 on:** November 11, 2021, 08:08:12 PM »

Heading over sat morning. It usually just gets better by the day until the end. I'll be hunting out of Baker

wooltie · « **Reply #108 on:** November 12, 2021, 12:05:06 PM »

So this is our third trip.

Here's what I've gathered:

People who say they see 10-20 shooter 4 point bucks per day are likely glassing from their truck and covering a lot of ground.

If you park and hike into an area, I do not doubt you'll see deer. And maybe you'll see several bucks. That happened to us on a few occasions where we were in an area that just had a lot of deer...like 30-40 does and 5-10 bucks.

Just understand that everyone I've talked to who sees these high #s of bucks every day e.g. 15+ tells me the glass from the truck, cover lots of ground, drive 50-200 miles a day, and get out of the truck once they spot a buck they want to purse. I've asked them how they're seeing so many bucks because we'd walk into a spot and only see a few.

On our first trip, we hunted bma land the first day - we parked and walked in. We saw few deer, ended up shooting the second buck we saw (3x4) and called it a day for that spot.

Just saying adjust your expectations. Also depends on area you're hunting too I bet.

jstone · « **Reply #109 on:** November 13, 2021, 09:04:52 AM »

Is the CWD killing the deer off?

NRA4LIFE · « **Reply #110 on:** November 13, 2021, 09:28:50 AM »

CWD was just found in a muley buck in Baker.

spoonman · « **Reply #111 on:** November 13, 2021, 06:17:02 PM »

Day 1 for us here in the breaks and zero deer spotted. Wind was something else,30 + with gust to 60.

Craig · « **Reply #112 on:** November 13, 2021, 06:22:40 PM »

Wind was super crazy today. Found a great bull for my son. Now he just needs to cooperate with us. Couldn’t get to the area because the wind. Wasn’t worth busting them out of the area. One more day to hunt. Then head home for a week then come back for round two. Can’t figure out how to post pictures of the bull.

Limhangerslayer · « **Reply #113 on:** November 13, 2021, 06:48:38 PM »

Day one for us was 22 bucks, no shooters. Biggest was 23-24. Very windy, but bucks were rutting pretty good. Whitetail and muley both.

spoonman · « **Reply #114 on:** November 13, 2021, 06:51:17 PM »

Quote from: Limhangerslayer on November 13, 2021, 06:48:38 PM

Day one for us was 22 bucks, no shooters. Biggest was 23-24. Very windy, but bucks were rutting pretty good. Whitetail and muley both.

Where you at? I’ll take one of those small guys out of the heard for ya! 😛

JakeLand · « **Reply #115 on:** November 13, 2021, 08:54:39 PM »

Same here in the NE lots of small 3x and forkies kinda been weird weather snow, rain sun and lots of wind

dvolmer · « **Reply #116 on:** November 14, 2021, 11:36:08 AM »

Some of our Montana bucks. Tough year. Hard to really explain. Weather different than normal. Warmer. Saw less deer and the ones we did see where flighty. We were lucky and did better than I though we would after first impression.