bowhuntmontana
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Alright, all of the other hunt threads and journals have inspired me to do the same. I have a couple of good hunts lined up for this fall and will do my best to keep you all in the loop on the developments. Most of my hunts are about filling the freezer, but they all provide memories and adventure.
My big game season kicks off next week with the muzzleloader deer season here in Utah. This will be my first time hunting with my muzzleloader. In addition to my deer tag, I'll have a couple of cow elk tags that I can fill if I get into some elk. I am hoping I do so I can put some elk meat in the freezer. I'll be packing in about five miles to where several drainages come together. It is pretty classic high country with open ridges, aspen pockets, some fir stands, timbered north facing slopes, and it's steep. Been hunting in there a few years now, mostly later in the season with a rifle. I spent three days backpacked in there last year the second week of October and got two feet of snow and had to bail. That was rough. It prompted me to try to the muzzleloader season. I am pretty excited to get in there with the elk potentially doing their thing, the aspens in brilliant gold and orange, and just enjoying being away. I have two full weeks off, which will take me through the full muzzleloader season and then into the general rifle elk hunt. I am hoping for decent weather (at least not a blizzard).
The next hunt will be Wyoming antelope. Going back to a unit with a couple of good friends. We have hunted this unit for a few years. Just packing doe tags, but we love it. Heading in there later in the season because of my Utah hunts. I have hunted it late once before and the antelope were grouped up in larger herds and definitely spooky. It is a unit with spotty access to public and it is pretty difficult to navigate the public that is there. But, I like to eat antelope and I like to hunt antelope. I think we will fill our tags.
Some time in late October or somewhere in November I am headed back home to Montana to hunt some whitetail does with my brother. I like eating whitetails and I like hunting them. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind eating the mountain muleys I have been shooting here in Utah the past few years. But ag-fed whitetails are just yummy. Taking a buddy of mine from Utah up there to experience a little different hunt. Really hoping to pack the freezer. I had to buy a side of beef last year, as the muley buck and two antelope does didn't take us all that far. First time I've had to do that.
Somewhere in between there I have a few fall turkey tags here in Utah to fill. Hoping I can get each of my three kids out on those ones, sitting a blind in a little bit of public that can hold some birds. I had my oldest daughter in the blind with me last year on an evening archery sit for muleys and we had a flock of 17 or so birds come by within 10 yards. She was pretty excited and has been wanting to get back there ever since.
Also tossing around the idea of doing a little waterfowling. I have only done it a little and never really took to it. But I bought a kayak this year and the idea of taking that out on some of the places we have close by to hunt ducks and geese sounds like a cool adventure. We will see.
I'll throw up a few details and pics from my summer prep and scouting.
My big game season kicks off next week with the muzzleloader deer season here in Utah. This will be my first time hunting with my muzzleloader. In addition to my deer tag, I'll have a couple of cow elk tags that I can fill if I get into some elk. I am hoping I do so I can put some elk meat in the freezer. I'll be packing in about five miles to where several drainages come together. It is pretty classic high country with open ridges, aspen pockets, some fir stands, timbered north facing slopes, and it's steep. Been hunting in there a few years now, mostly later in the season with a rifle. I spent three days backpacked in there last year the second week of October and got two feet of snow and had to bail. That was rough. It prompted me to try to the muzzleloader season. I am pretty excited to get in there with the elk potentially doing their thing, the aspens in brilliant gold and orange, and just enjoying being away. I have two full weeks off, which will take me through the full muzzleloader season and then into the general rifle elk hunt. I am hoping for decent weather (at least not a blizzard).
The next hunt will be Wyoming antelope. Going back to a unit with a couple of good friends. We have hunted this unit for a few years. Just packing doe tags, but we love it. Heading in there later in the season because of my Utah hunts. I have hunted it late once before and the antelope were grouped up in larger herds and definitely spooky. It is a unit with spotty access to public and it is pretty difficult to navigate the public that is there. But, I like to eat antelope and I like to hunt antelope. I think we will fill our tags.
Some time in late October or somewhere in November I am headed back home to Montana to hunt some whitetail does with my brother. I like eating whitetails and I like hunting them. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind eating the mountain muleys I have been shooting here in Utah the past few years. But ag-fed whitetails are just yummy. Taking a buddy of mine from Utah up there to experience a little different hunt. Really hoping to pack the freezer. I had to buy a side of beef last year, as the muley buck and two antelope does didn't take us all that far. First time I've had to do that.
Somewhere in between there I have a few fall turkey tags here in Utah to fill. Hoping I can get each of my three kids out on those ones, sitting a blind in a little bit of public that can hold some birds. I had my oldest daughter in the blind with me last year on an evening archery sit for muleys and we had a flock of 17 or so birds come by within 10 yards. She was pretty excited and has been wanting to get back there ever since.
Also tossing around the idea of doing a little waterfowling. I have only done it a little and never really took to it. But I bought a kayak this year and the idea of taking that out on some of the places we have close by to hunt ducks and geese sounds like a cool adventure. We will see.
I'll throw up a few details and pics from my summer prep and scouting.
