Author Topic: Montana Hunt 2010. Good time, Good memories, UDATED, MORE PICS, STORIES (Read 14931 times)

RightPlace-RightTime · « **Reply #45 on:** December 03, 2010, 02:54:44 PM »

Thanks on all the props of our trip. Its fun to share.

Hornseeker · « **Reply #46 on:** December 03, 2010, 03:04:07 PM »

Looks like you guys had a great trip again!! Congrats...

But....dude..... of ALL the years to not go after the elk....this was NOT the one..... The mountains were snowed out and the biggest bulls in the state were down low...allowing us to finally get on them!!!! I wont jack this thread...check out my thread in the elk forum...

BUT...a great hunt, again, congrats! I may have to ask YOU for deer hunting help!!!!

RightPlace-RightTime · « **Reply #47 on:** December 03, 2010, 03:22:58 PM »

Anytime, :-) I know. I wish i could have made the elk happen. Im doing the bow thing now so i will have more opportunity. Thanks again. I will check it out.

beave · « **Reply #48 on:** December 03, 2010, 05:51:17 PM »

Looks like you guys had a great time.Congrats on the Deer.

GWA Hunter · « **Reply #49 on:** December 03, 2010, 06:23:55 PM »

Great pics and nice bucks. Looks like you guys had a good time.

jjdavis2222 · « **Reply #50 on:** December 03, 2010, 11:21:03 PM »

It was a great hunting trip! Sad that its all over!! Funny how you look forward for something for so long and and its over in an eye blink! I have to download my pics on to the puter and I will post my bro's buck (which was the biggest of the group) and story and my dads and mine tomorrow! cant wait to do it again!!

jjdavis2222 · « **Reply #51 on:** December 04, 2010, 03:31:57 PM »

So we left Des Moines at 1:45pm on Wednesday and arrived in camp at 6:30am Thursday. Set up camp and got everything orginized. Headed out for a evening hunt around 1:30 and and my brother shots one. So after a 15 hour drive and a hour and half hunt his 8 day hunt is over! Hadnt even slept yet. Anyways he saw this buck from 600 yards away and stalked to with in 130 yards. He sat there and watched it for quite some time. He wasnt going to shot it, didnt think it was big enough and it was still the first day. He even took out his camera and took a picture of it. Then it moved its head a certain way and he thought that is was alot bigger then he thought. So two shots later his hunt is over. It ended up being the largest buck taken for the week. 25" 4x4.

Me and him packing it out the next morning.

gaddy · « **Reply #52 on:** December 04, 2010, 03:37:15 PM »

now thats a nice buck & way to start the game. if you got to get benched early thats the way to go out

Pathfinder101 · « **Reply #53 on:** December 06, 2010, 03:56:54 PM »

Can't do the new pictures at work. I'll check tonight when I get home.

jjdavis2222 · « **Reply #54 on:** December 06, 2010, 06:39:47 PM »

Finally got the pics of my and my dads bucks upload.

After my brother got his the first evening hunt I was thinking this is going to be a good hunt. Well I passed on shots at two average 4 points the first day and then pass on a good 3 point a couple days later. Then on the Wednesday of the hunt I missed a good 4 point.

But I have a pretty good excuse. It was super cold with temps in the single digits that morning and light snow. Well to make a long story short.. I pulled the trigger 4 times before it finally shot. Firing pin (SP?) must of been frozen. I even tried ejecting the round and the bolt wouldnt even open! Lets just say I was in panic mode by attempt #4 and just missed. Wasnt even expecting the gun to fire. He was at 250.

Anyways came down to the last evening hunt on Thursday. We were leaving the next morning and I was prepared to go home empty handed. There was still 3 of use that hadnt tagged out yet and it was crunch time. Well at about 3:45pm I jumped a doe and this 3 point out of a ravine and dropped him at 180 yards. He aint what I was after but after passing 3 larger bucks I was pretty excited to close the deal with a hour left on my hunt.

My brother was tagging along with my dad and they were on the next draining over so he came down and gave me a hand and my other hunting partner that hadnt tagged out also showed up.

And heres the best part... My dad said he was going to stay up top and hunt until dark. Well at about 4:45 we hear a shot and we were like "no way!" Sure enough my old man shot a decent little 3x2 walking back to the truck. He was only 200 yards from the truck! I guess we got it done just in the nick of time!! It was a very fun evening hunt!!!!

Here are a few pics of my buck.
AHL

Hard to see but it also had a cool little fish hook of an eye guard.

My dads buck shot about a hour after mine.

Us at the truck, it was nice to be able to get my dads out whole. After a 200 yard drag!

The next morning getting ready to pack mine out.

And finally... My dads and brothers and my buck ready to go home.

Got Deer? · « **Reply #55 on:** December 07, 2010, 07:23:01 PM »

This trip sounded and looked like a lot of fun. Wish I could have been there with you guys. Hopefully I'll get my chance one year.

Rack Hunter · « **Reply #56 on:** December 07, 2010, 08:38:34 PM »

great job guys!!!

Machias · « **Reply #57 on:** December 07, 2010, 08:41:10 PM »

Great looking bucks, congrats!!

BuckHunter23 · « **Reply #58 on:** December 09, 2010, 12:33:01 AM »

Ok, so I took forever to add these and I apologize for the delay. Here is the final buck from our group and story to go along. This was shot by our buddy NXS-Hunter. Also added some additional pics from the trip.

NXS and I spent most of our time in the woods in the same general area as each other. It was an awesome experience to be there when he got this guy. A few days before he missed on a monster double droptine from just over 500 yards out. This one definitely made up for it. The day after Right-Place shot his deer he suggested NXS and I head out in the same are and take a couple ridges near by. After setting out and not seeing much movement, we came to a point where we decided it was best to get a bit further apart and cover more ground.

Well that didn't last long. About 30 seconds after splitting up NXS was calling for me to come back as he saw something in the distance. We both get our binos up and he pointed to a small tree way off in the distance. After finally figuring out where the hell he was trying to get me to look, I could see a small tree thrashing back and forth. After a quick pause we both caught glimpse of his rack and he looked like a decent deer. Since NXS spotted him I told him to put a stalk on it and I would continue watching from where I was. We ranged it really quick and he was just over 600 yards out on a hillside, working over this little tree like no other. NXS took off towards the deer, staying low on the backside of the ridge we were on. As he was getting closer he took a wrong turn and headed off too far left and down the wrong side of the ridgeline

As I was trying to somehow signal to him his mistake, I was also starting to think I may have to go finish this up for him

Well he came back towards me with a look on his face like he had lost his deer. He got on the radio and asked what happened when I explained he just needed to pop his head over the knoll and take a look. Though I think my exact words were "YOU F'ING *censored*, HE'S RIGHT OVER THE HILL TO YOUR RIGHT, HURRY THE F UP!!!" The buck was still there, thrashing away, not a care in the world. NXS ranged him again and found that he was now only 330 yds out. He decided this would be his opportunity and setup to take the shot.

By this time I had made my way to within 400 yds of the deer and was watching intently while waiting for a shot to go off, then BOOM! Then seconds later another shot, and finally a third. WTF??? Did he miss? I slowly worked my way to him and asked what had happened. He said he misssed the first two times but was confident he hit him on the third. Looking across the canyon we realized it wasn't going to be a fun hike over there. We actually had a little fun with it and slid down the hill like we were two little kids. After tromping through the woods for a few minutes I hear NXS let out a whoop and a hell ya

We found this guy piled up in a bush and could see his slide path as he must have slid a hundred yards before crashing where he did. Light was fading fast so we tried to hurry and get him cleaned out and quartered up. BY the time we had finished it was pitch black. We agreed it would be best to hang the meat in a tree overnight and come back the next morning wih packboards to get it out. As we were preparing to head up out of the gully, headlamps on and freezing our asses off, we hear a growl right behind us.

Holy crap, we had a cougar lurking in the dark. I fired a shot from my rifle and we began to make a ton of noise. I tell you what, I have never moved so fast up a mountain in all my life. Thankfully, nothing followed us out and we had all our buddies waiting for us at the trailhead. NXS was able to go back the next day and recover his meat.

Unfortunately I was the only loser on this trip and not able to bag one myself. I went down swinging in the below zero weather on the final day. All in all it was an amazing trip and I can't wait to go back. Great friends and great times!!!

As he lays!