mt deer

[MountainWalk]

have had a computer for a little over a month. been trying to get some pics up, slowly but surely.. guided this fellow from new brunswick.. unit 250 mt..

[boneaddict]

Experience of a lifetime for him I'm sure.  A bit different terrain.  Thanks for posting the pic.

[MountainWalk]

he wants me to go to new brunswick and moose hunt with him..but man,, going to canada seems like a helluva lotta hassle..

[boneaddict]

I've researched it a bit.  Its doable, but it is a hassle.  If you can get away with him guiding you then you are past the biggest battle.  It costs a fortune due to their mandatory guide rule.

[Muleyslyr]

Cool....nice lookin' buck.

[PacificNWhunter]

nice looking deer, that country looks like a thigh burner!

[MountainWalk]

oh but it is.. normally im not in very good shape when i get to mt... first two weeks are pretty tuff on me,, mostly just the air,, legs are always fine...after 4-5-6 10 day hunts, i usually lose about 20 lbs.. then when i get back here,, i damn near run everywhere i go..

[Red Dawg]

good looking buck. Looks like i would dig those mountains.

[Dman]

 Montana is grueling because of the altitude and at times, because of the cold. This year we hunted a ranch that my uncle has hunted a lot and the ridge we hunt is nearly 7,000 feet at the top, it was also very cold, one day we hunted it, the temp was minus five and one truck's brake cylinder froze. We stopped by the owner's house to say hello on the way back and they told us a sad story from two weeks earlier. They lease out deer and elk hunt's to other folk's to select part's of their property. A man from back east came out two week's earlier to hunt the same ridge as us and he was early '50's and in good shape. He hunted hard with friend's all day and they packed elk and deer off the hill that day. He got down the hill at the end of the day, got within a dozen steps of his truck and the just died of a heart attack right there. Needless to say the landowner was shook up about it and it was an eye opener for me as a first time Montana hunter, you HAVE to be in good shape to hunt there, but just as important, you have to climatize yourself to the altitude and temp gradually and/ or train for it hard before you go. I found myself gasping for air after a dragged and loaded a deer in the minus temps, afterwards driving to the processor I felt like someone punched me in the back on the lungs, I've never felt like that hunting Western Wa. for blacktail, even after hiking 8-10 miles.

[MountainWalk]

yeah dman, i know,, i GUIDE there...

why did you drag the damn thing? quarter that dude out!

[Dman]

 "guided this fellow from new brunswick" -I guessed correctly then 

 It would have taken longer to quarter it then to drag it at -5, with a windchill of -15.

[MountainWalk]

   if you say so

[bear]

  if you say so

Being a professional it probably take you what, all of 5 minutes to quarter a deer?

[MountainWalk]

not that fast.. but fast... he was talking about dragging deer down from a 7000ft ridge..dont know bout you, but dragging a deer 200 yards on flat ground seems a helluva lot tuffer to me than hauling out quarters,,,much less down a ridge lke that..just my 2

[bobcat]

I will never drag a deer again. Well, maybe if it's 50 yards and downhill, but dragging a deer out just SUCKS. If it's not too far I will at least cut it in half and carry half at a time, on my back, or if it's farther, then bone out the front half and leave the hind quarters on the bone.  A small deer I would even rather pick it up whole and pack it on my back than drag it. I'm sometimes amazed at how far some guys will drag a deer. They're way tougher than me. I figure I will have to quarter/bone it at some point, at least when I get home and prior to cutting and wrapping, so I may as well do it in the woods.

[ICEMAN]

Draggin out is near impossible where we hunt, unless straight downhill. If you have to sidehill, no way....too many windblown deadwood....

[Dman]

 "he was talking about dragging deer down from a 7000ft ridge.."

 Didn't say that at all, the guy died on one of the ridges we hunted, which was 7,000 feet. The Montana deer we harvested were small bodied. I dragged/ carried my 165lb buck 1/5 mile in perhaps 6-7 minutes, with cold hands in that weather to cut and make two 1/5 mile trips makes no sense, taking around 15-20 minutes. I think we're getting side tracked anyways, my point was in agreement with yours, the cold and the altitude can kill in Montana. How best to haul a deer was not my point at all. If you read through other post's I did bone out a large deer in Washington this year, I do it if it makes sense to do so given the situation.

[alecvg]

nice buck!

[MountainWalk]

dman,, forgive me, but im still a little newish   have not really looked thru everything yet. but i see your point. anyhow.

Thank you , all you nice fellows.

[boneaddict]

Don't fret Mountain...D-man is prone to exaggeration anyway.  You have to cut everything he says in half.  165 pound deer = 80 pounds, 7000 foot elevation=3500 feet.  15 below is actually 15 above.   

Just wanted to make sure you knew I hadn't forgotten you D-man.

[Dman]

 Bonehead 

[Muleyslyr]

LMAO!!