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    Clothes and rain gear suggestions for first western hunt

    I feel kind of foolish for not telling everone when and where we will be hunting. We will be in SW Montana near the continental divide and it will be in the first two weeks of rifle season. I guess precipitation would most likely be snow in late October/early November. Edit: Also, we will be...
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    Help With Sausage Smoking

    If you want to make a smoked sausage while not worrying about the 40/140/4 rule, you need to add cure #1 to your sausage. I recommend either the book by Rytek Kutas or the one by Adam Marianski. I would read the Marianski book first.
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    Boots boots and more boots

    Maybe you guys could also tell where you got your boots? I've never seen any of the brands mentioned in a store around me besides the Meindl boots at Cabela's. Do you guys just order them on the internet and hope for the best?
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    Clothes and rain gear suggestions for first western hunt

    As the title implies, I am planning my first western hunt. I've come to realize that almost all of the clothes I currently own are cotton. I have some decent poly base layers and was planning on picking up some more military surplus polartec base layers. I was also thinking about getting...
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    Podcast 25: Fresh WT shed in TN in December?

    The cooler dude said he found a fresh whitetail shed in Tennessee in December. Unless I'm mistaken, he said it had a bloody stump so he new it was a fresh shed. Has anyone ever heard of southern deer shedding so early? When he told that story, it was hard to believe. I hunt in north Alabama...
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    Planning my first western hunt for mule deer in Montana

    As first timers, the thought of also getting elk tags was too daunting. We didn't want to bite off more than we could chew, so to speak. Originally, I thought that my 7mm-08 wouldn't be a big enough caliber for elk but I was surprised to see Mr. Newberg say that he uses a 7mm-08 for elk. We...
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    Planning my first western hunt for mule deer in Montana

    We are planning on hunting for a minimum of 5 days but hope to have more time. A lot of it depends on my hunting buddy's job and we won't know that for a while. We are planning on hunting either the first or second week of rifle season. The friend that we're staying with is heading out on a...
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    Planning my first western hunt for mule deer in Montana

    I've been to the Calf-A quite a few times when I visited my friend out there in the Fall of 2014. Those sausage breakfast sandwiches were insanely big. It looked like a 1/2 lb hamburger. I would get up before anyone else and watch all the whitetails in the valley as the sun was coming up...
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    Planning my first western hunt for mule deer in Montana

    The one place that I didn't want to skimp on money was the boots. Cabela's sells some boots from Meindl for about $300 that are well reviewed. I hope to try them on at the local Cabela's soon. We were also planning on getting used, military surplus ILBE packs. We don't need much of a pack...
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    Wolves in Montana deer unit 302?

    Whether or not 302 requires a permit was quite puzzling to us first timers. If you look at the map in the nonresident application packet, it shows 302 as requiring a permit. If you look at the table titled "Permit Drawing Opportunities", it shows a bunch of blacked out text where 302 should...
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    Planning my first western hunt for mule deer in Montana

    Also, native Montanans should blame Big Fin and Steven Rinella if me and my buddy are in your unit, screwing up everyone's hunt because we don't know what we're doing. If not for their shows and podcasts, I never would have thought western hunting was something that I could do without hiring an...
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    Wolves in Montana deer unit 302?

    A buddy and I just put in for our first ever western hunt of any kind and applied for Montana's 2016 mule deer season. Unless there is a drastic increase in nonresident hunter applications, we will be stomping around unit 302 next October/November. Would it be worth my money to put in for a...
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    Planning my first western hunt for mule deer in Montana

    Thank you everyone for the advice and encouragement. I specifically want to thank Randy11 for informing me that 302 is no longer a unit that requires a permit. I did most of my research last spring based on last year's regs and never realized they changed it. Even the map in the application...
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    Planning my first western hunt for mule deer in Montana

    Hey everyone! I am planning my first western hunt with a friend and I'm hoping that someone might be able to provide some insight before we put in our applications. Here's the backstory: A good friend and I are white tail hunters in Alabama and we want to go hunting out west while spending as...
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