When you hunting Montana?

[Pathfinder101]

.  I also take her out to a bed and breakfast or someplace fancy the weekend before hunting season.  I ain't gonna lie, I put it all out there for just a few months of let me do what I need to do.

Hmmmm.... that's good advice. 

[whacker1]

I should be there about every weekend from 23rd through the 14th for some extended weekends, which is all I am allowed based on the time management agreement I struck with the wife.

[Pathfinder101]

I just called last night and made reservations at a BMA for the 18th through the 21st of NOV.  They only let 2 people on it per week, and only Thursday through Sunday, so I was lucky to get an opening.  I am pretty jazzed right now.

[400out]

That sould be a good time maybe the rut will hit a couple day early 

[Pathfinder101]

That sould be a good time maybe the rut will hit a couple day early 

Should still be pretty good.  We saw plenty of rutting activity last year between the 12th and 20th, just no real big bucks.  ALmost every group of does had bucks hanging around them if you looked hard enough, and we saw lots of "lone cruisers" (bucks covering miles, at a trot, nose to the ground, not stopping, middle of the day).  I am hoping with the limited access to this ranch the bigguns won't have gone completely nocturnal waiting until they get so horny they just can't stand it anymore.  I just need one...

[wastickslinger]

OK, you guys have got to let me in on the secret... how the %#@ do you manage to be gone hunting in Montana over Thanksgiving and still stay married...?  (I assume some of you are married).  I would LOVE to hunt the last week of the season, but my wife would kill me in my sleep with a plastic fork if I missed T-Giving with the fam.
I hunted the week before Thanksgiving last year, and you guys are right, the rut wasn't in full swing yet.  We hunted the NE corner, and saw lots of bucks, and lots of 4x4s, but only one big one (and that was over a mile away, right before dark).  I would like to hunt later this year, but if I get divorced, I lose half my S%$#T, which will make it harder to hunt...

I think hunting has been around longer than Thanksgiving. I think you should pick the longest tradition to celebrate. HUNTING.

PS dont tell my wife I am hunting over thaksgiving. She thinks I am going to a conference for work. 

[MuleySniper]

OK, you guys have got to let me in on the secret... how the %#@ do you manage to be gone hunting in Montana over Thanksgiving and still stay married...?  (I assume some of you are married).  I would LOVE to hunt the last week of the season, but my wife would kill me in my sleep with a plastic fork if I missed T-Giving with the fam.
I hunted the week before Thanksgiving last year, and you guys are right, the rut wasn't in full swing yet.  We hunted the NE corner, and saw lots of bucks, and lots of 4x4s, but only one big one (and that was over a mile away, right before dark).  I would like to hunt later this year, but if I get divorced, I lose half my S%$#T, which will make it harder to hunt...

I think hunting has been around longer than Thanksgiving. I think you should pick the longest tradition to celebrate. HUNTING.

PS dont tell my wife I am hunting over thaksgiving. She thinks I am going to a conference for work. 

Gonna try to fill your snipe tag this year huh?

[Pathfinder101]

OK, you guys have got to let me in on the secret... how the %#@ do you manage to be gone hunting in Montana over Thanksgiving and still stay married...?  (I assume some of you are married).  I would LOVE to hunt the last week of the season, but my wife would kill me in my sleep with a plastic fork if I missed T-Giving with the fam.
I hunted the week before Thanksgiving last year, and you guys are right, the rut wasn't in full swing yet.  We hunted the NE corner, and saw lots of bucks, and lots of 4x4s, but only one big one (and that was over a mile away, right before dark).  I would like to hunt later this year, but if I get divorced, I lose half my S%$#T, which will make it harder to hunt...

I think hunting has been around longer than Thanksgiving. I think you should pick the longest tradition to celebrate. HUNTING.

PS dont tell my wife I am hunting over thaksgiving. She thinks I am going to a conference for work. 

OK, if any of that stuff actually works for you...then U-DA-MAN.  Good for you.  I would end up with my throat pinned to my pillow with a fork.

[NRA4LIFE]

Back in WI where I grew up, the deer seaon ALWAYS falls the week of Thnaksgiving.  Lots of missing male family members at the table there.  Wives just live with it.

I will be in MT Nov 11-20, hopefully not that long though.  No 'lope tags to fill so we're going later than usual.  Hope to knock down a monster this year.

[Pathfinder101]

So... you're solution is that I should have married a girl from Wisconsin...   Too late for me, but I will pass that information along to both my sons when they come-a-marryin'-age...