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Me and my wife drew tags for Montana general deer. That is pretty cool. We are both quite avid hunters, especially me. We live in Ontario Canada. We have taken quite a few whitetails and have hunted mule deer quite a few times in the past. I have only taken one and my wife has not harvested one yet. We shoot a lot of does around our farm in NW Ontario for meat so we are not interested in travelling across the continent to shoot a small buck. We are probably going to pass any buck under about 170". I know it seems crazy as I have ate a lot of tags over the years but I have no desire to harvest a small buck, let em grow so that someone else can have a trophy in the years to come. I am not expecting a high probability of success on this hunt but to be sure we are going to have a fun time glassing and trying to find a couple good bucks! We are looking for some ideas and direction all the way up to and including some sort of hunt swap or semi-guided hunt. Anyway, I am reaching out here. I used to be an active member but have not been back for awhile. I admin a large Ontario hunting forum and find that a lot of work...lol

Regards,

Rene W. Cadene

Hmmm. No interest. I'll post some pictures of past adventures and of me and my wife....


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My wife

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Renee: Fabulous whitetails,and great pics of your hunts!

I wish I had a mule deer hunt( I do!)but am not at liberty to swap it out,because I would love to hunt Ontario for a big buck.Looks like you have some great ones.

Hopefully someone on here will want to swap you. Good luck!

Rene - WELCOME or welcome back to the 'Fire'.

THANKS for the pics. SOME really nice bucks. I enjoyed ALL of the pics.

Looks like you're well equipped for a variety of hunting scenarios.

I can not help you out, BUT GOOD LUCK ANYWAY.

Nice pics...good luck with the hunt.

Rene if I where you I would be looking to hunt around the fort peck area. Lots of public land and lots of good country if you hunt it hard you have about as good a chance as anywhere in montana at killing a nice mule deer buck.

I am thinking that what I need to do is find a location to start from. Accomodations be it camping or motel or cabin to start from. Get acquainted with the public land and block management land there to have options. I think I will chat up biologists and even may take a drive out there this summer or early fall for a scouting mission and see if I can find a private property or two that has not been leased up. Offer to help somehow. Yes the swap is a possibility for someone or their kin to get a great opportunity at a nice whitetail. You are the second person to direct me towards the fort peck area. I will look closely at it. Still plenty of time to decide. Thanks for all input.

I dug up some more pictures that you guys will like. Various adventures. (:

Our first turkey's in Ontario. 2005?



Deb's first bear.



Wyoming antelope



Oklahoma sunset



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Me and Shawn out for rip. Between Manitiouwadge and Marathon.

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Colorado view

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Deb's Osceola

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Me and Dad, flying out to fish.

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First bow kill antelope.



Deb's first x-bow kill.



Indian carvings, Wyoming



Dad and Frank in Northern Quebec.

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Nice pics Rene. You married over your head like I did.

Very nice pics. Odviously you and yours are very accomplished hunters.
Can't give you much advice, but I'd be inclined to hit Montana's Fish, Wildlife and Parks website and go from there. I've found their wildlife people very helpful especially when it comes to Block Management Lands. For quality maps, nothing I've seen beats MyTopo.com. Their maps are often made from the latest aerial photos, etc. A set of BLM maps are also very helpful as they show public and private land. E

Years of liberal seasons, followed by winter kill in 2010-2011, followed by disease, my make some tough sledding in anything other then LE HD's in eastern Montana, but good luck and have fun.

awesome pics

If you're going to set a 170" minimum, Montana is not your place right now. I'd wait a few years.

I would agree with bellydeep, at least with respect to the mulies. Numbers are down quite a bit for unknown reasons. Not much of a whitetail hunter so I can't speak to those.