Montanans how long since your last mule deer

[FREAK]

7 days ago. Too many in the last 10 years. Only heavy horned old MD from here on out.

 

[MTLabrador]

I shot a buck this year and last year. The last one before that was 7 years ago. I wish we would change our management and season structure, but I really enjoy hunting and eating mule deer. If I find a buck that I like I’m going to shoot it and be happy about it.

 

[shrapnel]

Monday, a week ago…

 

[Rie Bread]

Ima eat elk, whitetail and Virtue signal on online forums till next hunting season

Edit: last year and the year before that for mule deer. Year before that too.

6 hours

 

[B&CTom]

One in 1992; and this one in 2022

 

[alecvg]

This morning. Deer numbers seem as good as I have seen in a few years in the particular area I hunt.

 

[Bulldog0156]

10 years. Didn't grow up in montana but I've been around for a while now.

 

[Rie Bread]

Ima eat elk, whitetail and Virtue signal on online forums till next hunting season

Edit: last year and the year before that for mule deer. Year before that too.

Let the virtue signaling beacon shine bright all winter

 

[sclancy27]

I've shot 3 in the last 5 yrs in MT.

 

[The Hedgehog]

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Let the virtue signaling beacon shine bright all winter

Isn’t that a WT?

 

[ismith]

Isn’t that a WT?

 

[OntarioHunter]

I get one every year. Usually less than two days. I had to clean up this one Thanksgiving morning for my brother. Third day of hunting. I muffed a shot at him first morning. 6x6

 

[Bugle 'Em In]

2018 for me…and it wasn’t even in MT. Passed up a 170”-class buck last year here in MT at 200 yards. I’m to the point that unless I’m putting him on the wall, I’m not shooting. Ironically, I’m still in the phase of shooting the first legal bull I cross paths with .

 

[BenhuntinMT]

This is the first year in about 6 years I haven't. I love hunting Muley's, but this year was tough. We just couldn't mind a mature one.

 

[Speeddmn]

Didnt make time to hunt this year. Last year I shot a WT, year prior weather was to gnarly to spend time looking. So it was 2021 season. Where I hunt in NE Montana there is quite a bit of out of state pressure but I know where some holes are they hide in.
2021


2020

 

[The Hedgehog]

My kids and I hunt mule deer in MT every year. My son shot a MT mule deer buck on Thanksgiving day. It's his 3rd mule deer buck in 11 years of hunting, all taken on public land. He had a limited quota permit this year - as did my daughter. They drew as a party of 2. My daughter hunted several days, passed a several younger bucks, and ended up taking a doe WT yesterday afternoon for the meat. She's taken 3 mule deer bucks in 8 years of hunting. I've shot 2 mule deer bucks in MT in the last 8 years. Adult bucks on public used to be more regular. My son's buck from Thanksgiving. It was really an excellent day.

 

[Rie Bread]

My kids and I hunt mule deer in MT every year. My son shot a MT mule deer buck on Thanksgiving day. It's his 3rd mule deer buck in 11 years of hunting, all taken on public land. He had a limited quota permit this year - as did my daughter. They drew as a party of 2. My daughter hunted several days, passed a several younger bucks, and ended up taking a doe WT yesterday afternoon for the meat. She's taken 3 mule deer bucks in 8 years of hunting. I've shot 2 mule deer bucks in MT in the last 8 years. Adult bucks on public used to be more regular. My son's buck from Thanksgiving. It was really an excellent day.
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Love that area! What dreamy place to hunt mule deer

 

[The Hedgehog]

Love that area! What dreamy place to hunt mule deer

I highly suggest for you and everyone else to apply for the 441-50 permit. Have at it. So awesome.

 

[Rie Bread]

I highly suggest for you and everyone else to apply for the 441-50 permit. Have at it. So awesome.

Nah hunt the wildness in September. Like the climbing up that way. Bynum has a great bar.

 

[The Hedgehog]

Nah hunt the wildness in September. Like the climbing up that way. Bynum has a great bar.

Even better - both my kids have taken Oct bucks higher in October there. People think R7 has declined - can’t imagine the great spike buck hunting to be found in the wilderness. As for the bars - Dupuyer has a much better one than Bynum and an excellent display of how to goat fucq taxidermy on a beautiful MT bison.