Post by: 270Shooter on July 16, 2013, 02:16:08 PM
Post by: YellowDog on July 16, 2013, 04:17:36 PM
Post by: 270Shooter on July 16, 2013, 07:27:28 PM
Post by: YellowDog on July 16, 2013, 07:38:20 PM
Needless to say I will be researching specific areas now. I have all of the BMA maps from last year, a Montana Gezateer/topo map book, and will buy the GPS maps now.
What is the deer hunting like in the area? I am afraid I will see some nice deer on my scouting trip(s) and decide I need to buy a deer tag and stay until the season opens. If you have any pointers feel free to send me a PM :chuckle: :tup:
Post by: benhuntin on July 17, 2013, 01:25:03 PM
Looks like me, my brother, and his girlfriend drew 404 on a party application.we will be just across the road from you
Post by: 75johndeere on July 17, 2013, 01:39:35 PM
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Post by: YellowDog on July 17, 2013, 02:11:46 PM
Good deal. Congrats!Looks like me, my brother, and his girlfriend drew 404 on a party application.we will be just across the road from you
Post by: YellowDog on July 17, 2013, 02:12:43 PM
Drew 513 this will be my first antelope hunt ever so pretty damn excited for itIt will be our first antelope hunt too and the first real big game hunt of any kind for my brother's girlfriend so it should be a lot of fun. Good luck!
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Post by: Craig on July 17, 2013, 02:33:58 PM
Post by: HUNT on July 17, 2013, 04:06:48 PM
Post by: Craig on July 17, 2013, 07:14:21 PM
Post by: furbearer365 on July 17, 2013, 07:38:43 PM
Yesterday I drove from Washington to 40 miles east of Lewistown. And today I drove from grassrange Montana down through Billings to the border of Yellowstone. Plus some back road driving in Missouri breaks. I saw a total of 3 antelope. About 6 years ago I would have seen 1000+ antelope. Pretty sad. Hope they make a comeback soon.
Last November while driving the highway between Greatfalls and Havre, we saw upwards of a thousands antelope out on those farms. I know that the one herd had at least 200 in it and the funny thing was they were all shoulder to shoulder with a coyote walking towards them. I don't think the coyote had a chance but it took my dad telling NO a couple times when I told him I was gonna get out and put one through the boilermaker just to make sure the coyote didn't get lucky. :chuckle:
Post by: JLS on July 17, 2013, 08:12:17 PM
Yesterday I drove from Washington to 40 miles east of Lewistown. And today I drove from grassrange Montana down through Billings to the border of Yellowstone. Plus some back road driving in Missouri breaks. I saw a total of 3 antelope. About 6 years ago I would have seen 1000+ antelope. Pretty sad. Hope they make a comeback soon.
We were there last week also. Antelope numbers are really down in the SW and central part of the state. Such is life, they'll bounce back.
Post by: Thenewguy on July 17, 2013, 08:41:50 PM
Yesterday I drove from Washington to 40 miles east of Lewistown. And today I drove from grassrange Montana down through Billings to the border of Yellowstone. Plus some back road driving in Missouri breaks. I saw a total of 3 antelope. About 6 years ago I would have seen 1000+ antelope. Pretty sad. Hope they make a comeback soon.
Craig- I live in Billings and work in Lewistown. If you took that drive without seeing at least 50 antelope then it was foggy, you need new contact lenses or had severely poor luck. They are out there and seem to be more abundant (from a car) than the deer these days
Post by: DaveBTS on July 17, 2013, 08:49:09 PM
Post by: JLS on July 17, 2013, 11:24:36 PM
Did you get the PM I sent you?
Post by: YellowDog on July 17, 2013, 11:33:21 PM
Yellowdog,Yes I did but not until you made this post. For some reason I didn't get a new message notification but saw your post, checked my message box, and there was your PM. Thank you very much for the suggestions.
Did you get the PM I sent you?