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Montana Shed Hunting!?!
« on: August 28, 2021, 10:37:49 AM »
My dad and I are goin to be making some trips to western Montana to shed hunt and dont know Montana very well. Does anyone have any pointers to were to go or were you see many elk? I dont mean for you to telling me any of your secrete spots but if your willing to help thanks! :tup:
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Re: Montana Shed Hunting!?!
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2021, 09:07:29 PM »
My nephew makes a TON of money each year shed hunting. He's a college student in NE Montana. He (shed) hunts everywhere. State land, private ranches he obtains permission on, and BMA land. My two cents, look at Block Management. Montana really has their stuff together on that. According to this article, in 2019, MT opened up 7.1 million acres of private land as accessible land for sportsmen. When you start finding sheds, pay attention to the elevation you find them at. Then focus within a couple hundred vertical feet of that.

https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/montana-outdoors/landownerpayments.pdf

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Re: Montana Shed Hunting!?!
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2021, 08:54:07 AM »
Thank you! :tup:
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Re: Montana Shed Hunting!?!
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2021, 09:56:06 AM »
Can’t help much for the west. I did find a few hunting the east this year. No elk sheds though

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Re: Montana Shed Hunting!?!
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2021, 08:46:10 AM »
Nice Buck in the back! Is there any white tail over south there?
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Re: Montana Shed Hunting!?!
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2021, 08:49:55 AM »
Thanks.
Yeah there are whitetail. Seems like they’re a lot more spread out and prevalent the further south you go. In my experience the further north you go there are still white tail but they are more concentrated on the private property and farm fields close to town

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Re: Montana Shed Hunting!?!
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2021, 08:50:24 AM »
Can’t help much for the west. I did find a few hunting the east this year. No elk sheds though
That must be all the sheds from that buck in the back.
I think you found all his sheds for like 3 or 4 years there.

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Re: Montana Shed Hunting!?!
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2021, 04:45:27 PM »
Can’t help much for the west. I did find a few hunting the east this year. No elk sheds though
That must be all the sheds from that buck in the back.
I think you found all his sheds for like 3 or 4 years there.

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Re: Montana Shed Hunting!?!
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2021, 04:46:35 PM »
Thanks.
Yeah there are whitetail. Seems like they’re a lot more spread out and prevalent the further south you go. In my experience the further north you go there are still white tail but they are more concentrated on the private property and farm fields close to town

i went to north west Montana and saw 50-50 whitetail and muley
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