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Tally
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We're back from eight days of deer huntimg in Eastern Montana. We had a great time as usual and saw lots of deer. Some we're on property we had permission to hunt and some weren't. I only pulled the trigger once. I met Wa_Wiki_Hunter back there, nice talking to ya Jeff. Hope yo got a bruiser. We saw you headed south on Monday. We were helping the rancher ship cattle about 6 miles south of town when you guys flew by.
The place we hunt is about 40 miles from town on a dirt road, it's a good road at first then slows you down some.
The day I got my buck we had walked in and out of all the canyons and draws to the back fence and found this buck about 1pm trotting out of the hills like a dog sniffing for his dinner. It took a while to get to where we had seen him and once there we glassed the area to try and find him again, he disappeared. There were two does on the hill in front of us that had us pinned in our spots and they finally stood up to feed. They were looking around and started looking to my left into the open grass area so I glanced over my shoulder and there he was. He didn't know we were there and looked in my direction, I could see he was as wide as his ears and decided he was the one. One shot, a short drag and a 3 mile walk back to the truck we were driving out to pick him up. We were able to drive across the prairie to within about a quarter mile then buggie him to the truck.
It was a great hunt. I saw a shooter two hours out on the first day but passed him up as we had eight days to hunt, got this boy on the third afternoon.
Here's some pic's.
Here's a shot of some of the country.
The place we hunt is about 40 miles from town on a dirt road, it's a good road at first then slows you down some.
The day I got my buck we had walked in and out of all the canyons and draws to the back fence and found this buck about 1pm trotting out of the hills like a dog sniffing for his dinner. It took a while to get to where we had seen him and once there we glassed the area to try and find him again, he disappeared. There were two does on the hill in front of us that had us pinned in our spots and they finally stood up to feed. They were looking around and started looking to my left into the open grass area so I glanced over my shoulder and there he was. He didn't know we were there and looked in my direction, I could see he was as wide as his ears and decided he was the one. One shot, a short drag and a 3 mile walk back to the truck we were driving out to pick him up. We were able to drive across the prairie to within about a quarter mile then buggie him to the truck.
It was a great hunt. I saw a shooter two hours out on the first day but passed him up as we had eight days to hunt, got this boy on the third afternoon.
Here's some pic's.
Here's a shot of some of the country.
