After three years of watching this guy, he finally made a mistake and walked past a stand during the last weekend of archery season.
Gross scored 174”
Great ending to an awesome buck.
Gdtting back to my original post... Here are the first photo's I have gotten of this buck in 2025. Hopefully we will get some better pictures at somepoint and start seeing him while we are out hunting. This year he doesn't get a free pass.
Thank you for the great photo's, I am also one of the lucky one's that has a montana tag in my pocket this year. Really excited to learn all I can and enjoy this adventure. Headed out to my district this weekend for some scouting.
I drew a breaks Mule deer tag.... I know the deer herds have been hit really hard up there. Noting that the tags went from unliminted down to 100, can I feel "okay" with hunting for a mature deer. Or should I just eat the permit and let all of the bucks live?
No worries at all, it is a struggle to keep up with the thread after several posts. I am just happy the generosity continues to spread and this thread has gotten more comments. @Rack Daniels and I are trying to figure out a plan. Regarding the Alaknak tent setup, I have an offer from @Corn...
Please send me a PM and let's see if we can arrange our schedule. If you can make it to Billings, consider it a done deal. I also have some vortex scopes I could throw in on the deal if you need one.
Going to try here first, before these items go up for sale... Let's hope humanity doesn't let me down, please don't try to abuse my generosity. I am fortunate and have plenty of great hunting gear, I am looking to move some items along to help someone get a jump start into the hunting world. I...
In today’s world, you are not going to make it with a salary by 30. It is going to come with risk. I have taken risk, I have won and I have lost.
When opportunities present themselves chase them down. If family/friends give you a chance/head start give it all you have. But, never trade your...
He is located in Montana, has a river bottom to hide in, and is surrounded by sugar beets, corn and wheat.
We have killed some bucks that have ranged in age from 3.5-9.5 years old. I would agree, the horns give no indication. The biggest rack was the 3.5 year old old and he was a 150” 4x4...
More accurately the deer is lucky and we suck at hunting😂. He walked by a few archers at 80+ yards, so he won those days. He then came out once during rifle and walked by me at under 75 yards and fed around for ten minutes. I was planning to take my son out the following day, so I didn’t have...
I have a lot to learn about whitetails. This is a buck we have been following for two years now, and we let him live this year. I am curious how old you think he is.
Only photo I got from 2023 -
Photos from 2024 (summer to end of December in order) -
For reference 150” deer I killed in 2023...
My dad always brought along a hand held radio. It used to drive me nuts that he would fire it up at night and make all sorts of noise. We either listened to the weather or a game. Now I think about it on almost every hunt.
Current tradition - break out a real sappy Sam Hunt song and sing our...
Is anyone still looking for a place to stay this fall?
I am renting out the cabin (no hunting) for $125 per night if anyone is interested. I have a few weeks already booked, so please send me a PM to see what is open.
Thanks.