Planning for an Eastern Montana mule deer hunt

I have actually shot 2 whitetail in Montana. Actually drove all the way there for mule deer but wasn't able to turn up any size so the next focus was a nice whitetail. I was actually able to get on some private ground my last day there and help a rancher out that wanted to get rid of some whitetail

I am driving all the way from Louisiana next season and I will be focusing on whitetails. I mean if I see a big ole mule deer I will go after it, but I have a hunch I will be coming home without a mule deer.
 
I shot a mule deer 2 years in a row and wanted a whitetail. Mature deer around me are 75lbs in the rut, farm deer in my area can get 125 but rare.
It wasn't a well thought out plan. It was one of those deals where you go over a hill and deer run everywhere. The biggest deer stayed with a doe and gave me 5 seconds to make a decision. Very next night a bigger buck was in same field and 5 days later while scouting a way bigger deer in that field as well.
It was cool tho, good times. I'll always remember that drag w/ my brother.
 
I shot a mule deer 2 years in a row and wanted a whitetail. Mature deer around me are 75lbs in the rut, farm deer in my area can get 125 but rare.
It wasn't a well thought out plan. It was one of those deals where you go over a hill and deer run everywhere. The biggest deer stayed with a doe and gave me 5 seconds to make a decision. Very next night a bigger buck was in same field and 5 days later while scouting a way bigger deer in that field as well.
It was cool tho, good times. I'll always remember that drag w/ my brother.
Did you utilize any of the BMA for your whitetail encounters? I need to fill the freezer for my wife and two babies this fall and have a buck general tag and a doe tag for the 700's. I am coming up from Colorado at the beginning of rifle opener and then the middle of November if need be after my CO buck tag.
 
Jimbo, Most of the deer I've harvested have come from bma's. I got the same bma this year where I got my last deer 3 years ago. Rancher said there isn't as many deer... This particular ranch is pretty cool, a pay to hunt property borders it but that property has one way in. When those hunters go into there stands/blinds they bump the deer onto the bma. The bma has the agriculture and the pay to hunt land has the creek w/ lots of mature hardwoods.
1 more month for me till I'm out there.
 

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