Well this is new to me

[thusby]

Why is that? Those are my home stomping grounds for learning to hunt growing up as a kid. Part of the family still has a deer camp up there. Man I miss those days and I really need to go. Some good deer hunting up there.

Just learning curve, it’d be fun to watch their approach to the impenetrable pines. Curious how fast they would pick up deer drives.

 

[rogerthat]

I saw 4 guys from Ohio a couple weeks ago hunting here in Montana. They were on week 4 of their big 5 week hunt. They each shot 120-140” mule deer and 1 of 4 finally shot a bull that morning and I’m not sure it was even legal (super dinky). They were hunting hard, backpacked into a hell hole. That morning hiking in we saw a group of about 120 elk with 3 rag horn bulls in it. Makes sense based on the advertised bull:cow ratio. I bet it’s 0:100 by the time those boys finished up in there. Hard to imagine burning that much time for such crappy hunting but gotta hand it to them for getting after it.

Those boys obviously don’t listen to Jake Bush’s podcast or they wouldn’t venture so far from home.

 

[Blue Steel]

I'm guessing they are sleeping in the Uhaul or at least some of them? 10 guys seems like a lot but it was a pretty big uhaul

Living in a van the uhaul, down by the river

 

[seeth07]

Just learning curve, it’d be fun to watch their approach to the impenetrable pines. Curious how fast they would pick up deer drives.

This crew that was their plan and its obviously smart. A lot of places you can stand hunt sure but its way more effective in gun season to do drives. Now if they do them right or not is another story. Between safety, reading wind, knowing how to read natural funnels, knowing how to be quiet in the drive to "bump" rather than push deer, etc.

 

[PoleX]

Those boys obviously don’t listen to Jake Bush’s podcast or they wouldn’t venture so far from home.

Idk who that is but one of the dudes had a unibrow that would make a lot of guys on this site jealous. Brought me right back to my days of hanging drywall with the Amish folk back in HS.

 

[johnp]

If the ten of them get disgusted enough with Wisconsin public , they can hurry to get to the Custer for the last day or two of Montana's 5 week rut gun season and fill there trailer .
The rut came to an abrupt end here last weekend but should still be going strong in region 7

 

[Nick87]

Hard to imagine burning that much time for such crappy hunting but gotta hand it to them for getting after it.

More than likely they didn't burn that much time for good or scrappy hunting, just an entirely different kind of hunting. Still thats a crazy amount of time for that outcome, I agree.

 

[INMT]

This crew that was their plan and its obviously smart. A lot of places you can stand hunt sure but its way more effective in gun season to do drives. Now if they do them right or not is another story. Between safety, reading wind, knowing how to read natural funnels, knowing how to be quiet in the drive to "bump" rather than push deer, etc.

Likely they grew up and moved from the Midwest post Covid and know how drives work.

 

[Gellar]

Living in a van the uhaul, down by the river

Chris Farley is from Madison.

 

[johnp]

The price is sure right. Less than $100.00 a piece for 1st time buyers. All 10 could hunt here for about what it costs for one of us to hunt there.
I could see the group returning to Montana with a whole different idea of what poor pubic land hunting is REALLY like.

 

[seeth07]

You guys have the wrong impression and maybe that is my fault. Public land deer hunting is great here, just maybe not during the 9 day rifle season

 

[Gellar]

The price is sure right. Less than $100.00 a piece for 1st time buyers. All 10 could hunt here for about what it costs for one of us to hunt there.
I could see the group returning to Montana with a whole different idea of what poor pubic land hunting is REALLY like.

My Wisco nonresident turkey license was almost cheaper than my Iowa resident license. 65 vs 61.50.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

If they are in fact sleeping in the U-Haul where you park, is that legal there? If not, call the DNR on em….lol.

 

[brownbear932008]

Just bring an army. These guys are just doing deer drives with their group of 10.

Ahh not MeatEater fans these guys are Hunting the Public fan boys!

 

[seeth07]

If they are in fact sleeping in the U-Haul where you park, is that legal there? If not, call the DNR on em….lol.

There is some public they can camp - the property they were on they cannot but they were just parked there getting ready to drive that property. In WI, we don't have "state lands" controlled by the "state land board" like you folks out west. Almost all of that property has been sold with most of it going to the WDNR who manages the "state hunting parcels". Almost all of the state parks have campgrounds and most also have sites open year round. We don't have much for BLM land but we do have lots of national forest lands where you can camp as well.

 

[Gellar]

Ahh not MeatEater fans these guys are Hunting the Public fan boys!

Talk about terrible spot burners with very little public land advocacy. I’m not a fan.