Montana Opener this Weekend

What part of Montana do you hunt? The Bob? Glacier?

Depends on the weekend. I have a few favorite spots across the western part of the state...

I'm based in Missoula.

I'll be heading up to Danaher in the Bob this weekend. [-o<

That's big country - do you have horses?

Good luck!

Yeah we have 10 horses for the 3 of us.

that back country season opened sept 15 th for rifle......we took my buddys daughter out for the youth opener yesterday,dropped a nice antelope buck at 400 yards and a nice wt buck right before dark,heck of an opener :thumb

"halibutaddict" wrote:that back country season opened sept 15 th for rifle......we took my buddys daughter out for the youth opener yesterday,dropped a nice antelope buck at 400 yards and a nice wt buck right before dark,heck of an opener :thumb

Nice work. We're hopin' to drop a bull that my buddy has been watching for about 2 weeks now. He's guesstimating him around 350 so we're hoping to get into range. Of course, for us, 500 yards is in range haha.

I can't even BEGIN to explain how irate I am right now. This was the first time in 10 years that I have quit hunting for a day due to what happened this morning on the opener...

Ten minutes to 6, I'm out of the truck, walking up to the spot we scouted last night. We can hear animals moving around, but not sure what it was since it was still pitch black. After about an hour of not moving, the sun started coming up and we realized we were less than 100 yards from a herd of about 40-50 elk, with 4 bulls in the bunch. Out of the 4, one was definitely a shooter. We sit tight another 20 or so minutes for the shooting light to appear, and I set my crosshairs on the big bull. As I'm squeezing the trigger, we hear someone literally yell at the top of their lungs. The bull spins around and he's gone.

The biggest spin to this story, is that we were on private land with the owner, and were the only ones granted permission. We caught up to the truck and turned them in, but I have never been so angry in my life. Had the owner not been there himself, they might have a dead (EDITED by Mod) up in the hills right now. I can't believe someone could be such a (EDITED by Mod)and ruin another hunter's opportunity. It was easily the biggest bull I would have shot at. I know there's 10x more responsible out of state hunters, but this guy ruined how I feel about them for the rest of my life. He will be arrested for trespassing and yadda yadda, but it's just sickening.

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with a tresspasser, I agree it would make me very upset also, I hope the guys gets prosecuted, but please refrain form using foul lanuage on the forum.

Love those out of staters...most may be responsible hunters but I seem to rum into the minority that arnt,wont even begin to list the problems Ive had with them it would take weeks to compile. #-o

Bummer to have that happen.

I thought you were hunting in the Bob?

"MT Backcountry" wrote:Bummer to have that happen.

I thought you were hunting in the Bob?

I did yesterday, but not Saturday.

Wow thats is really messed up and I can see why you would want to cuss so many times in your story.

Took my 12 year old little sister out a couple times last weekend. Dad was back in the North Fork of the Sun river in the Bob huntin elk. I told her that she could only shoot a doe with me since I wanted dad to be there with her when she shoots her first buck. Got her set up with a shot at a whitetail doe but she missed. She took it really well. Wasnt upset one bit. Sunday morning my girlfriend and I jumped a few small whitetail bucks but nothing big enough to shoot opening weekend. Im getting out of Missoula and heading back to Choteau this Friday afternoon. Hopefully find me a big old mulie or whitetail and if im lucky ill run into some elk.