About to embark on an Epic Trip....updated with stories and pics

[outfishu2]

Safe travels. Epic trip indeed


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[elkboy]

Good luck!  Fill some tags!!!

Pictures and a writeup due upon your return...   

[Pathfinder101]

Good luck and drive safe.  Can't wait to see what the results are...

[rudedawg1085]

Good luck! ill be right behind ya. Leaving mid next week for Montana. What region you hitting? we will be all over region 7

[OutHouse]

Man, seeing all these Montana threads makes me think I need to give that a shot if I ever have time. Best of luck!

[ShaneTyTrey]

Well, made it back, had a blast.  We left the Tri-Cities on Saturday 11/6 and drove to Bozeman, where we spent the night.  Sunday, we got up, had breakfast and drove another 4 hours to our destination near the Wyoming/Montana border, checked the zero on the guns, made a couple slight adjustments, grabbed an early dinner and made plans for the following morning hunt.  The first day had us looking over many different bucks, but nothing to get real fired up about, especially on the first day.  On the 2nd morning, we tried a new area and were looking over quite a few bucks, I actually misjudged this buck, due the antler structure and thought he was considerably bigger than he was, I was able to make a perfect shot from 220 yards with him slightly quartering away and he didn't go 10 yards before expiring.  Not a great buck, but still a solid 4x5 to start the trip off.

[ShaneTyTrey]

The plan was to give Montana 3 solid days looking for a nice Muley buck but wouldn't hesitate on a whitetail if the right opportunity presented itself.  Day 3 was terribly windy and didn't see a whole lot of action.  The morning of Day 4 had us back in the same area looking for Mule Deer, we found a couple marginal 4x4's but nothing that was really impressive, finally, I spotted a good buck at about 700 yards, but as quickly as he was there, he followed the hot doe he was on an disappeared into the Sage.  That evening we changed to another spot that has produced solid whitetails and muley bucks in the past, saw a couple solid 4x4 whitetails just before dark but with a strong wind in the wrong direction just had to watch and hope things would change for the next morning.  As luck would have it, it got really cold that night and daylight saw the temps at 19.  There was no wind and the conditions were perfect.  Right after first light we spotted a nice 5x5 hot on a doe, on property we couldn't hunt.  Over the next 2 hours, we continued to watch hoping he may move and head our way, even passing a very nice 4x4 in the process.  Finally about 8:45 am, the buck started moving our direction and within minutes, his doe was nearing the property boundary.  A couple minutes later they crossed over as we tried to get in position for a shot.  As he inched close to an opening in the trees, he stopped to thrash his rack on a tree, we quickly ranged him at 376 yards, I shot just over his back, luckily he didn't move, I made a tiny adjustment and the next shot anchored him.  He is a very nice buck and super similar to the one I shot in the same vicinity a couple years ago.

[ShaneTyTrey]

We spent the next two days driving to Colorado.  The area we were hunting really suffered this year, between drought, high temps and a full moon, the hunting was very difficult and we weren't see really any upper end bucks.  The first day found temperatures in the mid 60's with sun.  We were really only seeing deer for about an hour in the morning and 60-90 minutes at night. On the 3rd morning I was able to take this old, heavy 3x3 (had a kicker too that just recently broke off, it was still fresh on the bottom) from 120 yards.  Cool buck, may have to shoulder mount him, can barely get my hands around the bases.

[ganghis]

Sounds like a hell of a trip!  Congrats on three tags filled on some nice bucks.  How many miles did y'all cover?

[huntnfmly]

Awesome very cool congrats thanks for sharing

[carpsniperg2]

Great stuff man!!! Congrats on some great critters on your trip!

[Jpmiller]

That Muley is cool, what a great trip!

[jowings22]

Epic seems about right! Congrats

[Birdguy]

Fantastic couple weeks for sure. Congrats on some great deer!