Live Hunts - Montana Archery Deer Hunt

September 12, 2002
Montana Archery Deer Hunt

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Thursday A.M.

This morning I went out to get some photos, and saw some very nice bucks but most of them crossed the fence a few hundred yards from where I was. I did manage to get a few pics of a real nice 8-point.

Larry Davis saw a few deer this morning from a different stand than he has been hunting the last few days. He had a beautiful 12-point whitetail buck in full velvet run under his stand at 15 yards, but something had spooked the buck and he didn't stop long enough for Larry to take a shot. We saw the buck from a distance through the spotting scope and he would probably score over 150". We drove around a little just getting some different photos through the spotting scope.

A big group of Pronghorn Antelope

Photo taken through the spotting scope

This evening is Larry's last chance for a buck.

Thursday P.M.

This evening Larry hunted again from the blind where I killed my buck last Saturday. He had a really beautiful 8-point buck come out, but he was never closer to the blind than about 80 yards. About 20 minutes before dark Larry had a good 10-point come to within 35 yards away. Larry had a quartering away shot and he took it. The buck ran off out of sight. Larry got out and followed the blood trail and found that the buck had run into the creekbottom and died in the water. Larry waded in to drag him out. Larry was real happy with his buck, and so are we!

Larry Davis with his last-minute archery buck

Well, the Live Hunt is over, and I hope you enjoyed it. We'll be doing more Live Hunts in the near future, check back often!

Trip Notes
This hunt takes place in southeast Montana, near the Wyoming border. We are hunting with outfitter Tracy Weyer on an 18,000 acre private ranch in the Little Missouri River bottom. There are lots of Whitetail on the ranch, and good numbers of Mule Deer as well. Our Archery tags are good for either species. There is also an abundance of Pronghorn Antelope and Merriam Turkeys on the ranch.

For Whitetail we will be hunting the bottoms in the mornings and the Alfalfa fields in the evenings, from treestands and ground blinds. The Alfalfa fields are THE ticket for deer in this area. The evening before the hunt started, we saw probably close to 200 Whitetails while scouting. This area has some very good bucks, probably a few of which will still be in velvet right now. One of the neat things about hunting this time period is that the bucks are still in their summer routines and somewhat predictable in their patterns.

If interested in hunting with this outfitter, contact:

- Longleaf Hunting Adventures -
longleaf@huntinfo.com

Equipment
I'm shooting a Martin Jaguar bow, set at 67 lbs. Arrows are 29-inch Easton 3-60 ACC's, and I'm trying out Simmons LandShark 160 Grain 2-blade broadheads for the first time.

Joshua Flournoy owns and manages the Livehunts.com web site. He also arranges exciting hunts through his business Longleaf Hunting Adventures. Joshua resides in east Texas with his wife and four children.

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