High Country Montana Mule Deer

[mt100gr.]

View attachment 13323took this thru my spotter from about a mile distant. MT has some bucks up high.

 

[Rizzy]

That part of Montana sounds and looks like the Frank Church/Selway Bitterroot wildernesses hunts in Idaho. The season structures are similar too. The summer range is a tough hunt, it's steep and the Deer are really spread out. It takes more time and effort to harvest a Buck on these hunts than it does for a similar Buck in other OTC zones. I thinks that's one of the reasons folks don't go back year to year. The age class is potentially better and that's really the big benefit to hunting these wilderness areas. I also think learning and hunting the 4-6 year old burn areas in these wildernesses could turn out good. You for sure learn how to suffer with patience and dignity on these hunts

 

[mt100gr.]

View attachment 13333it's definitely tough country. Been lots of days where I haven't even seen a deer. But when you do find one or two it feels like the jackpot. And if they are bucks they are usually decent. For the record, that buck I posted was also in the first week of September. Seems like after that, if you find em, it's not when the camera is handy...usually in thick stuff at close range.

 

[Matt Cashell]

I can't see the first attachment, mt100gr.

 

[mt100gr.]

How do you post pics? I can't figure out how to just paste it in so it's not an attachment like that...

 

[Matt Cashell]

I post from photobucket, but here is a good thread on it:

http://www.rokslide.com/forums/showthread.php?3579-Posting-pics

 

[Rizzy]

Maybe try using the paperclip icon instead of the insert image icon? I can't see the pic either

 

[mt100gr.]

I will look into it, thanks. Can you or anyone see either of the attached pics??

 

[Matt Cashell]

I can see the second attachment.

 

[Rizzy]

I can't see either of them with Firefox browser....

 

[mt100gr.]

Ok, I think I am figuring this out....why can't I view my pics in a large format on my kindle fire tho (in photobucket) And the link url does not give me a selection...gonna try one from the computer and one from the tablet...bear with me...

 

[mt100gr.]

...not looking for tech support here. Just wondering if anyone else has encountered these issues and looking for guidance...

 

[ScottR_EHJ]

Email me the pictures, i can post them. Its [email protected]

 

[mt100gr.]

...maybe....

 

[mt100gr.]

...and again...starting to get the rhythm

 

[mt100gr.]

thanks for the help everyone. I guess I have to post from my computer...until I figure out the mobile device tricks.

 

[goodgrouper]

Kad11, great thread, I'm in the same boat you are and ready to start focusing on mule deer. Pretty cool to see more local guys showing up here. Thanks to everyone for the good info so far.

 

[BackCountryMulies]

Kad11 I currently live in Gallatin Gateway and spend allot of time in the High country, Mostly horseback, but from my glassing observations there are not allot of Deer up there but watch the rock slides and the dark timber I have found a few jaw droppers the last couple years and spent most the time I hunted in mt chasing one in particular. Glass allot and move little once you get up on a point.

 

[Rizzy]

Nice Buck!
It may take 3 or 4 days to find one in those wilderness areas but you know your the only one looking at him and that's one of the things that keeps me going back to those kind of areas.

 

[mt100gr.]

Those are two different bucks. Part of a bachelor group of 5. They were in one of the steepest canyons I found. No way in from the top- sheer cliffs all the way around and an awful Adler choked drainage to get up from the bottom...these bucks may die of old age in there.