I hunt a lot and have a pretty good basis of local populations around the house and areas I drive often.
Went out a couple days ago. Hunted a piece of public that is very hard to access. About 500 acres surrounded by thousands of acres of private.
It was the best deer hunt I’ve been on in MT...
I would gather that a landscape chock full of antelope is a great proxy for mule deer potential. I wonder what the pronghorn population would look like with otc doe tags?
We have buddies that ranch and outfit down there. What we did see were lots of does with deer of the year. We were in an area that has sparse public land available to road hunters. We did see deer are larger swaths of public. Talking to other guides, “fawns and does”
Limited antelope tags- plenty of antelope.
Limited elk tags- shoulder season
Can’t shoot ranchers cows or sheep- cows and sheep everywhere.
No one eats prairie dogs- everywhere.
Best thing we recognized this trip was the word is out the deer hunting is shit. Opening weekend of general season...