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    Hard luck tag drawing stories

    After 47 years of unsuccessfully applying for a Montana mountain goat tag, my 26 squared bonus points finally came through and I finally drew a goat tag in the unit just north of where I live.
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    How old is too old to apply for physical hunts?

    40 t0 50 years ago I did solo DIY Montana Moose, Bighorn sheep and Mountain goat hunts. I turned 80 last February and last month when I filled out my applications for those hunts I wondered if I could still climb into Mountain goat country. Well, after 47 years of unsuccessfully applying for...
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    MT- M/S/G results 26

    When I drew my previous goat tag in 1978 I shot my billy near the top of the mountain that took me 3 hours to climb in -5* F temperature and knee deep snow. Early season scouting w/o snow I could climb that mountain in about an hour. In the years immediately following my hunt, 4 of my friends...
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    MT- M/S/G results 26

    Thanks, I appreciate that. I welcome all the help that I can get. It looks like your neighbors trees need a little trimming. My view of the Bridgers is just a little corner of the south end. I do, however, keep track of the elk in my neighbors pasture...
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    MT- M/S/G results 26

    Montana use to have just a preference point system, but they dropped it in 1983 they said becaust their computers couldn't handle the large number of applicants and all of their preference points. Then in 2000 they started their bonus point system so this year, the thousands of us who have...
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    MT- M/S/G results 26

    Thanks Randy. I guess I'll have to spend a little time at the range, and A LOT OF TIME WORKING OUT!
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    MT- M/S/G results 26

    After 47 unsuccessful years of applying, It looks like I finally drew a tag for IMO, the hardest of the big 3 critters to hunt, a Bridger Mts Goat. 😲
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    MT- M/S/G results 26

    At 80 this year and with 26 points for each species I had those same thoughts, but went ahead and applied at least one more time.
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    Your preference with trigger lbs?

    I set all of my hunting rifles at 2 pounds.
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    Leupold CDS

    I have Leupold CDS scopes on 6 of my rifles including my Rem 541-T .22 RF. Several are VX3s and 2 are VX Freedoms. I also have a Leupold VX3 with their B&C reticle on my .257 Ackley. I've only had a custom dial made for my .300 Wby. It aslo has a 200 yd stop so for most of my hunting with...
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    Ever killed a bear with a pistol?

    Yes, I processed both of them, recovered both bullets, and we ate both of them, but from 50 years ago, I don't remember much about what the bullets did inside. I had the one pictured mounted as a rug that's still on my wall. I thought that I would try to mount the other one myself. I bought...
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    Ever killed a bear with a pistol?

    It's been about 50 years ago, one in Colorado when I still lived there, and another after I moved here in Montana. Both were one shot kills with behind the shoulder shots on bears that I had spotted and stalked, and both bears died within 20 yards of where they were when I shot them. One was...
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    Mountain Goat in Montana Unlimited Sheep Areas

    No, I killed my goat with my .30 Gibbs (a re-chambered Herter's .30-06) and a 180 gr Nostler Partition. Those 2 rams and my first ram that I shot in the early 80's in Unit 500 were all on DIY solo hunts with my .257 Ackley (Mauser Mark X action) and each with a 117 gr Sierra GameKing bullet.
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    Mountain Goat in Montana Unlimited Sheep Areas

    I killled my goat back in 1978 in the Montana Unlimited bighorn unit 302. I did a couple of late summer and September horseback scouting trips (one where I saw my first Wolverine), and also bought an unlimited ram tag in that unit "just in case" I'd see a ram while goat hunting. When I went...
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    Buy a new 44 Magnum (Which would you buy?)

    Yes, I get the carbon/lead build-up from both my .357 and .44 special cases in the clyinders of those pistols, but it's never been bad enough that the magnum shells won't chamber. I found a product at Scheel's called Breakthrough Carbon Pro that does a pretty good job of getting the carbon...
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