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Things have changed around here since I last posted a pic evidently, but this is what I call the prettiest place in Montana. Its about 700 yards to that finger at 1 0clock off my gun barrel.
 
Buddy of mine that went with me killed a deer as well and I went in to help him butcher it and pack it out. When I first topped out on the ridge where he was, this pic is what jumped out at me and I had to stop and take a pic.
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If you look straight over the top of my head at that little cedar point 400ish yards behind me, thats where I was sitting.
 
Dang that is beautiful. I need to get out there in the near future. My dad and I always wanted to hunt together in Montana. I need to make plans as I am not getting younger!
 
Dang that is beautiful. I need to get out there in the near future. My dad and I always wanted to hunt together in Montana. I need to make plans as I am not getting younger!
Just go do it.
Heck, take a week and just go in late summer to hike around and fish.
 
This is probably the best pic I took on the whole trip! Thats the same buddy that killed in the pic I posted earlier, accompanied by another buddy of mine carrying the head, packing my deer out of that valley. View attachment 262778
I can smell the pine/pinon and my lips get chapped just looking at that pic :)
 
One more pic from that trip. My pastor, a young man with a wife and 2 small kids, resigned from pastoring just before I left on this trip. He wants to go to Montana and start a Freewill Baptist church and congregation out there. I sent him this pic and told him I had found him a church! :D Its actually an old school house thats 40 miles from the nearest town but I think I can get it for him if he wants it!
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One more pic from that trip. My pastor, a young man with a wife and 2 small kids, resigned from pastoring just before I left on this trip. He wants to go to Montana and start a Freewill Baptist church and congregation out there. I sent him this pic and told him I had found him a church! :D Its actually an old school house thats 40 miles from the nearest town but I think I can get it for him if he wants it! View attachment 262779
Our God sure knows how to create beautiful scenery. It does not hurt that you are great at taking photos. So majestic!!!
 
Here is an oldie but good one for thinking about bucks in Wyoming. Having hunted in Montana most of my life it's getting tougher to find "shooter" bucks. 25 years ago it was about 1 out of every 20 to 25 bucks would be a shooter. In my youth, it was 1 out of 15. Today, in eastern Montana it is probably 1 out of every 40 to 50 bucks if you can find one. The guides and outfitters I talked to had a rough 2024 and 2025 doesn't look promising for big Montana mule deer I haven't seen a shooter muley in a couple of years. Enjoy this!

Wyoming Muley Bucks
 
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Here is an oldie but good one for thinking about bucks in Wyoming. Having hunted in Montana most of my life it's getting tougher to find "shooter" bucks. 25 years ago it was about 1 out of every 20 to 25 bucks would be a shooter. In my youth, it was 1 out of 15. Today, in eastern Montana it is probably 1 out of every 40 to 50 bucks if you can find one. The guides and outfitters I talked to had a rough 2024 and 2025 doesn't look promising for big Montana mule deer I haven't seen a shooter muley in a couple of years. Enjoy this!

Wyoming Muley Bucks
Ive seen a few like that where I go, but its always at 5 am or 7pm, 20 miles from public land, in the road or private pastures between where I can hunt and town.
 

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