Mule Deer Myths

I recently visited a friend who shared an opinion that seems quite popular. There are quite a few of these misconceptions floating around. The ones I'm referring to regard mule deer. It seems they believe that mule deer are dumb. Every animal has its own plan of escape. They are all praised for their own abilities. The whitetail has got to be the most alert, the slightest move and their gone. Elk have this amazing ability to appear and disappear like a ghost. No animal, in my opinion, has a plan of escape like a mule deer. Their tactic is to sit on the highest mountain around and peer all the way down. They spot danger while it climbs miles below. Then they use their prepared route and escape. The point is you never catch a glimpse of them before they're gone. Most of the myths are formed from people that have only watched small mule deer bucks. The same idea could be drawn from some one who has only watched small whitetail bucks.

Fall Reminiscence

Hi fellow blogger, I decided to do this post mostly on what has been happening lately.

Hunting season ran from September 05 to November 29. That has consumed most of my time. I'll put some pictures of our hunts on this post. The elk is the grand prize, the one dreamed about all year. Around here harvesting an elk any elk is a huge feat. Its taken a huge amount of dedication. Of the last six years I've hunted here my family has harvested two elk. The only way I can describe it is extremely physically challenging. Too stand any chance at all you must hike dawn too dusk up the steepest, thickest most unforgiving terrain Montana has to offer. Not just once or twice but every day of the 80 day hunting season. Some times you have to literaly run up the mountains to keep up with the elk. At the same time you have to keep constant watch for the competition whom also is in a constant pursuit of the elk namely Grizzly bears,Mountain lions and the top elk predator wolves. At times I've been almost to the elk only to find the wolves got to them first as evident by the chase and then the half eaten elk I found. This year we over came and have a freezer full of meat to show for it. After the hunt I returned to find a beautiful grizzly bear had claimed ownership of the left over elk carcass that lay on the mountain.