Northwest Montana Whitetails

blacktailBC

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Hey guys. Planning a trip this year up there for whitetails. Planning on hunting south and west of Kalispell around November 15. Looking for some ideas, or places to check out. Is block management worth considering? Or am I better off just hunting NF? What methods do most people use?
 
Lots of public and NF around there.

I'd say you're timing it perfectly for the rut.

Stay out all day, I've shot most of my best bucks between 10 am. and 2 pm that time of the year.

Still hunting and glassing works best for me.

Good luck.
 
A couple of tips from my experiences with those mountain deer-

Don't get hung up on riparian areas. The deer might be using a dense creek bottom where you'd assume a whitetail might be, or they might be using an open ridgeline 3000 feet above the valley floor in a foot of crusty snow. You can't get fixated on a specific type of terrain, they can be almost anywhere. Keep moving until you find them.

Make yourself rattle. I get a response to rattling maybe one in every ten times I try, but that one time more than makes up for the nine blown attempts. Every time I stop to glass or get a drink or whatever, I make myself take five minutes to rattle.

Mountain whitetail can be really frustrating at times, but it gets addictive, good luck.
 

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