One call for deer and once call for elk for me. I also answered questions for my son about deer.
It's ridiculous that they call once for each species, especially when it is months later as was the case for elk for me this year (I don't hunt the shoulder season). I know the reason they call...
All of this is just overly complicated. It needs to be simplified. All these special programs need to go away. Make it simple.
I read the regs and pay attention as much as I can and things still surprise me. Among my group of friends I am always the one that has to explain the regulations...
So you are telling me that Block Management areas get a free either sex tag for elk or deer? What about when they are in permit areas?
I hunted a block management area in the Elkhorns this year that was also a bulls for billionaires participant. So they gave me access to land that I...
Just noticed today that the tooth analysis on my goat was entered into FWP. They analyzed it as 11 years old, which is the same age I get when I count the rings. Haven't received anything from them, not sure they will send anything or not, but it shows up on MyFWP in the tooth analysis...
Or the market situation here in Montana. Seattle is our in-market team. From my house it is about a 12 hour drive to get there. It's not like I can just decide in the afternoon to actually go attend the game.
To wrap up the story the next week we went to my family hunting camp. My son was able to get a little 4 point whitetail. Other people in camp had seen the buck a few times through the season but nobody had been able to close the deal. He was easy to recognize because he was missing most of...
I will be curious to get the results back on the teeth for the age. Supposed to get them back by May.
After a season chasing elk in this district here is my evaluation of it:
This is a fantastic district if you are looking for a decent 6 point that you won't necessarily have to pack in...
So then the work started. I started working on getting him broke down. Truck was about a mile off so my plan was to mostly quarter this one. Usually I don't like to pack out bones but this wouldn't be too bad. After working on him a while I decided to get one of the back legs out with my...
I sent out my Garmin Mini report to some friends and family and got ready to start the long day of breaking down and getting this animal back home. I tell people all the time that any serious hunter should break down and pack out an elk by himself at least once. You don't realize how much work...
Day 34 - Getting down to one of the final weekends of the rifle season. My plan for Saturday was to hunt an area that I had hunted quite a few times over the season. I wanted to time my hike in correctly as twice on this hunt we had bumped elk in the dark, right before first light. So this...
Day 32 - SNOW! Finally! It snowed in the afternoon while I was at work. I was super excited to have some tracking snow. After work I grabbed my youngest and we headed out to the private ranch I had access to. We parked in the usual spot that the landowner had requested and headed down to...
Day 29 - This was Friday November 1. Thoughts were starting to creep into my head that I needed to get this done. I have plenty of time I can take off from work but the last 2 weeks of the season are already mostly locked up. The 2nd to last week I am traveling out of state for most of the...
Day 26 - The plan for opening weekend of rifle was to hunt one of the same areas I had been hunting for archery. I knew there would be a lot more people now so was trying to figure out how to navigate that. I was not fully prepared for the circus that was about to happen. My plan was to go...
Day 24 - This was a planned dark to dark hunt. We headed in before light and had a plan to walk most of the way up the mountain and actually do a all day loop the would bring us around a couple of sections of private.
We had another beautiful Sunrise in the morning during our hike in. We...