Montana Report

elkaddiction · Nov 9, 2006

I took this buck on the Powder River on November 3rd. We hunted on a couple of different ranches. The bucks were rutting hard in the Powder River country a hundred miles or so from Miles City. Interestingly, there was no rutting activity on a ranch north of Miles City. Don't figure. This buck ended up scoring 174. He was too pretty to pass. We saw some other good bucks including a 30" 4 pt that was cookie cutter image to a buck I took in this country last year--modest forks with OK mass and a high 150s score. As much as I love wide mule deer, I was just looking for something a little different this year. We were hunting just before the full moon so deer movement was way off. We glassed up most of the deer during the middle of the day. We saw a fraction of the deer I have seen in this country in previous years, and which had been scouted in the proceeding weeks. My buddy ended up shooting a 28" 3X3, his first mature buck. It was great trip--I'm already looking forward to next year but will pay more attention to the lunar cycle. I keep hoping I come across a whitetail that tempts me away from those big mulies! Although I've seen some good whities, I just haven't seen one worthy yet!

mtmiller · Nov 9, 2006

Nice MT buck, congrats. I was in the "Breaks" this morning filling a doe tag and there were a few mature bucks checking out does and some young bucks harrassing other does.

hntnhrd · Nov 9, 2006

Nice deer. We just got back from the Forsyth area. Bucks were really starting to crank it up. We killed three bucks one which grossed 202 1/2. I will try to get some pictures on tomorrow. So much for the crappy mule deer of Montana huh??

WAmuleyHunter · Nov 9, 2006

i think i need to get on a different ranch in Montana.

All these nice big muley montana bucks are killing me. I think i know what over hunted looks like now. Congrats on a great buck. I am heading back to montana tomarrow morning.

wapiti11 · Nov 9, 2006

Can't wait to see the pictures, of that 202" buck
Were you south of Forsyth towards Colstrip?

mdbrown · Nov 9, 2006

nice buck,this post is tearing me up, im not leaving untill a week from tomarrow.

Craig · Nov 9, 2006

Great looking buck. I leave for MT on the 15th.

nochawk · Nov 10, 2006

I hunted Antelope south of Terry along the Powder river last month, there were a bunch of nice Whitetails in the 150-160 range along the river bottoms there, saw some mulie doe's but no bucks, but I was after Speedgoats so didn't pay attention too much to the deer. Powder River country look great to me....