Yeah. For multi million dollar homes. mtmuley
Montana, talk to me about your mountain whitetail.
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Gerald Martin
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The best kind of deer stand. Trophy lawn in summer, food plot in the fall. Pro tip. Remove all window screens before hunting season.
One of the better whiteys I have seen was shot out of a 300k house blind.
Nick87
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So a single wide?
I believe it sold for close to a million recently. At the time I bet it was a 300k house.
Hem
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Sure, I slip in an over reaction and bail. It's my mode.
Montana is on its knees, and IMO any threads which provide incentive just end up a further punch in the guts.
Nature of the thread is not directed in that sense, but I have had enough of anything that directs or redirects further strain on our resources..
Yep, it's the internet, and the influencers already got a jump on anything tangible.
No fault to @TOGIE , legitimate topic.
My bad for acting a little stiff.
Carry on.
nah. i'm gonna bump this thread monthly just for that.
i'm starting to think that the only reason colorado doesn't have mountain whitetails is our state actually knows how to manage mule deer.
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Don't be bitter....
You could change it to "M0ntana" or the like and avoid the Google tricks
WildWill
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Some of us only have week long hunting seasons in our home states. Why hunt a single tag for three weeks when you can hunt multiple tags in that time? For some of us it is about putting meat in the freezer, not a dick swinging contest about who shot the biggest deer.
My wife would quickly put a kibosh on all of my hunting trips if I didn’t come home with animals because I was waiting for the right one…
To each their own
Dougfirtree
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I'd be interested in the answer as well. What I can say, having lived in western Montana and done some hunting/recreating in the mountains of Colorado, and hailing from whitetail land originally (and currently), is that I could have told you on a gut level that Montana would be better for them. The forest just feels very different. It's lower in elevation, it's wetter/more lush, there are more shrubs, thicker cover and a lot less sage. It also has areas that seem like both cover and winter habitat down low, as opposed to the classic "winter range" of open sage brush that isn't buried in snow, in CO. I may be off on this, but I feel like there's a lot more logging in Montana, also. And whitetails and logging go together like 7mm-08 and Varget.
That said, my guess is you'll see more and more of them in CO. They're awfully adaptable.
That said, my guess is you'll see more and more of them in CO. They're awfully adaptable.
It’s a good question and having seen it first hand western Montana can burn like the rest of the state. I think it’s elevation but that’s a guess.
In some regions, yes.
I highly doubt that.
rjthehunter
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Alright alright, I changed it. Logistics to get to where we hunted would be incredibly tough and time consuming without a guide. And all but impossible without horses.
There were a lot of wolves around the area. It'd be fun to go back and target them.
It was just a dis. A dis in jest that was intended to hint at a broader theme that seems to hold some truth: where mule deer tend to decrease in density whitetail tend to fill in.
Ergo, if maybe Colorado decided to show mule deer the door with a general rut tag maybe we could see some nice expansion of whitetail into the mountains
I’d love to hear their thoughts on it. Like most things, I’m guessing it’s multifaceted.
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