God Bless hunting season

[Randy11]

Today is the opener of the general rifle season here in Montana.

My alarm just went off at 1:55 and I am about to drive two hours, hike two more hours, and sit in the freezing wind at nine thousand feet for another hour in hopes of getting a shot at a raghorn bull.

The best part is I know there's thousands of other guys across the state doing the exact same thing this morning, hell Greenhorns probably already been up there for a couple days. Fin's been camping in a mudhole for three days by himself trying to get one lined up, and the season hadn't even started.
From a third party, we must really look out of our minds.

God Bless hunting season.

 

[arffdog875]

Randy11, Thre is no other place I would rather be...crazy or not, it is where I get my sanity back!!!

Happy Hunting and good luck guys and gals!

 

[noharleyyet]

God Bless hunting season.

.......Amen

 

[fowladdict]

crazy or not, it is where I get my sanity back!!!

+1

Good luck on that raghorn!!

 

[ashersdad]

Good luck and God bless.

 

[smalls]

I hope you did better than I Randy.

Our days started out similar with the driving and hiking, but I failed to see a single animal once I left the truck. Was on my favorite elk hunting ridge by 6:45 freezing my flat-ass off. I only saw two other hunters all morning and they were several miles off on the opposite side of the canyon. I was regretting not buying a wolf tag even before the light touched the eastern horizon as I had 3 or 4 howling all morning. They moved up one side of the ridge and at one point were howling under 400 yards away. I think, had I had a tag, I would have had a very good opportunity to take one.


Highlight of the morning... seeing 14 vehicles in/around/beside a single approach leading into a block management area along the highway. A hotdog and soda stand would have made a fortune.

 

[shoots-straight]

I did have a wolf tag, and had a wolf within 200 yrs. howling. The hillside was fairly open except for new growth patch from an old clear-cut. I waited him out, he never showed in the open. For all I knew he just laid down and went to sleep. Just like a dog to do that. I thought I was going to fill the tag at first light. That was what I was after. I filled my elk tag in archery season. Oh well, maybe next time.

 

[Randy11]

We ended up right in the middle of a shooting frenzy like no other. Evidently we weren't the only one's that had been paying attention to the amount of bulls in this specific area this year. As far as I know, there was at least 16 bulls killed in this ~16 section area. We did fill a cow tag though, and got too see some nice bulls on the ground, so not a bust.
Back at it in the AM!
Good luck guys.