How’s it lookin’ out there?

Brushbuster · Jul 16, 2022

Well after a wild wet spring and early summer how does eastern montana look? Are the deer healthy, fawn survival good, horn growth looking good? I know populations have took a hit the past couple years. Hopefully it’s looking better than it has been!

cmbbulldog · Jul 16, 2022

It's slow on this forum. I'm curious how rain/elk look in the breaks, heading out that way for the first time this fall

antlerradar · Jul 16, 2022

I haven't been north of the Yellowstone, but the country to the south looks great, quite a contrast from the last two years.

Brushbuster · Jul 17, 2022

I’m happy to hear the landscape got some needed relief this year. Hopefully ranchers have plenty of feed out there. Maybe the deer will get healthy for a year and have a small population bounce back next year. Fingers crossed for a good hunt mid November

NeMont · Jul 18, 2022

Well the current 100+ degree streak will dry things out but compared to last year we are head and shoulders better. The deer numbers are okay, no winter kill at all because it was an open winter.

We are not as green as south of the Yellowstone but we are not burnt brown yet, even looking at cutting a crop and getting some hay put up around here.

Nemont

Brushbuster · Jul 18, 2022

NeMont said:
Well the current 100+ degree streak will dry things out but compared to last year we are head and shoulders better. The deer numbers are okay, no winter kill at all because it was an open winter.

We are not as green as south of the Yellowstone but we are not burnt brown yet, even looking at cutting a crop and getting some hay put up around here.

Nemont

Good to hear the crops and the deer are both doing a bit better

Jdan9 · Jul 18, 2022

I also will be hunting the breaks, east of Judith Landing. How’s it looking in that area?

2lumpy · Jul 18, 2022

Just got back from driving Interstate 15 from Utah to the Canadian border. It was what I’d call about normal looking for the second week of July. (Been make the same trip for the 47 years.). However after I hit about Dillion, it got amazingly green from there all the way up to Calgary, Alberta. If that prairie has ever been greener than it is right now, I can’t remember when.

Just a narrow strip but that’s what I saw.

Picture just south of Sweetgrass on Weds evening.

mtmuley · Jul 18, 2022

2lumpy said:
Just got back from driving Interstate 15 from Utah to the Canadian border. It was what I’d call about normal looking for the second week of July. (Been make the same trip for the 47 years.). However after I hit about Dillion, it got amazingly green from there all the way up to Calgary, Alberta. If that prairie has ever been greener than it is right now, I can’t remember when.

Just a narrow strip but that’s what I saw.

Picture just south of Sweetgrass on Weds evening.

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Everything is good until the dry thunderstorms hit. mtmuley