nfh
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Finally filled my late season whitetail tag. It has been a super tough year....... Not just tough for me but a lot of the hardcore whitetail hunters have been struggling..
I have been seeing some super nice whitetys at work on the ranches I pass through to get to the oil field and the rut is on.. The bucks I watch are pretty high up so the EHD didn't have an affect on them....
With EHD hitting the area super hard the amount of deer was low. Last year I passed so many bucks I lost count and the does were out of control. This year I can count on one hand on the number of bucks I seen. Found some nice dead bucks and a few does.
I was hunting a walk in area and I was little down after not seeing much. I talked to a couple of landowners and they stated they been finding dead deer also... I was able to hunt the private land that hasn't been touched by any other hunter with still didn't see any bucks...So I went back to a walk-in-area.
I know he isn't huge but I decided this buck was pretty cool looking. He was with another buck chasing a doe and the other buck was much wider but all busted up.....
Now just to fill my Montana deer tag and my late season bull tag.. I have seen some good bulls this year.... Looking for a bull over 350. My buddy who also has the same tag as I do has been hunting with me and he has never shot a nice bull so I told him he can shoot first. IT was tough trying to get him to pass on bulls up 330 class but we finally got on a solid 360 bull and it was a clean miss.. But heading back up soon
I have been seeing some super nice whitetys at work on the ranches I pass through to get to the oil field and the rut is on.. The bucks I watch are pretty high up so the EHD didn't have an affect on them....
With EHD hitting the area super hard the amount of deer was low. Last year I passed so many bucks I lost count and the does were out of control. This year I can count on one hand on the number of bucks I seen. Found some nice dead bucks and a few does.
I was hunting a walk in area and I was little down after not seeing much. I talked to a couple of landowners and they stated they been finding dead deer also... I was able to hunt the private land that hasn't been touched by any other hunter with still didn't see any bucks...So I went back to a walk-in-area.
I know he isn't huge but I decided this buck was pretty cool looking. He was with another buck chasing a doe and the other buck was much wider but all busted up.....
Now just to fill my Montana deer tag and my late season bull tag.. I have seen some good bulls this year.... Looking for a bull over 350. My buddy who also has the same tag as I do has been hunting with me and he has never shot a nice bull so I told him he can shoot first. IT was tough trying to get him to pass on bulls up 330 class but we finally got on a solid 360 bull and it was a clean miss.. But heading back up soon