After a few phone calls we decided a piece of Bo's family land would be a good bet for today and it had several sections of public land and land Bo had permission to hunt bordering it, we could walk for miles and we did. First step out of the truck and already a coyote shoots up a hill side, man I want to call coyotes here but bucks first, I walked half way up one side of a hill and Bo up the opposite hill slowly working our way to the end of the draw. We met at the end with no sightings, as I …
Adventures
Montana Day 2 Opening Day
This process started about seven months ago when I had to put in my application for a non resident Montana deer tag. I applied for an either sex either species tag, meaning buck or doe of either white tail or mule deer, figuring I need all the chance I can get. I was lucky enough to get the tag in the mail in August and now the planning would begin. By planning I mostly mean saving money. I have a map and time and my in laws were kind enough to offer a place to stay and Bo, my brother in law, …
Montana Day 1
I got to Sidney around noon central time but forgot I would cross the time zone into mountain time so I gained an hour and arrived at 11. Bo met me at the house and I unloaded. It was good to be here and once I got my legs going the same direction I was looking, I kind of had the newborn deer walk after riding that far, we were off to some farm land for pheasant and ducks. I've never hunted pheasant and assumed by their size they were slow, I was wrong, they are pretty fast to the air and when …
Driving to Montana
I got on 287 in Mansfield at 5 AM Thursday morning and was sneaking outta Ardmore Oklahoma as the sun started to peek through my passenger side window, I was making good time. Its only 1500 miles they said, that's not too bad right? Well it sucked I can tell you that. From one driveway to the other was actually 1550+ miles and was right at 23 hours. I drove 16 hours Thursday and stopped in Fargo, North Dakota. The oil business in this part of the country is booming and nothing's cheap but I …
Alex’s Cat
I needed to shoot my rifles and get ready for Montana next week so we decided to drive to Jacksboro Friday night and listen to the football game on the radio and hunt Saturday morning. The game wasn't much worth listening to as Graham rolled up a 40 point lead so I went to bed early. Alex decided he would hunt a new stand and I took the video camera to look for a nice buck I had some game camera pictures of hoping to see him in person so that I could decide if Alex should hunt him next weekend …
