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Gold is the best color I can describe him as. A kind of dark blonde. Definitely mature though. Nearly as tall as the barrel and nicely filled out.
Just got back from MB bear hunting so I will weigh in here.
If you really want a bear, go to Canada. It's a whole other level. 5 of us in camp, and we saw 50+ bears over the the 5 days and that is still after 2 guys tagged on the first night and one on the second and another being done on the fourth. We saw chocolates, blondes, cinnamons, jet blacks, blacks with white patches, multi-colored, and one I can only describe as gold in color and probably close to that 300lb range. Brother in law tagged one that tipped the scale at 485lbs.
That being said, I want you prospective hunters to know what you are getting in to. I have a hard time calling it a "hunt". To me, it almost seemed like one step above a petting zoo. The bears are nearly without fear. The last evening I sat, when the outfitter drove me into the stand with the ATV, there was a bear up a tree. The guide dumped the bait and backed his ATV up to another tree to attach a trail camera and the bear came down and started inching into the barrel. He couldn't have been more than 10 feet away from the ATV.
If this is what you are looking for, a nice relaxing hunt with 100% opportunity, book it. I suggest mid-May as the biggest bears should be awake and have claimed their baits and they most likely won't be rubbed yet (although the outfitter said the bigger ones tend to not get rubbed). Plus, the bugs shouldn't be too bad yet, I think I saw one mosquito so its a good time to be in the woods and get over the winter cabin fever. If you are looking for more of an adventure, I would spend my money somewhere else. Barring unforeseen circumstances, I will probably never go another one of these hunts.
When is Montana antelope due? How about SD?
Wyoming archery elk. SD should draw an any whitetail west river and an any whitetail east river for rifle. Archery any deer east and west river. Should draw an antelope rifle, gonna hunt northwest corner. Archery any antelope. Also Standing Rock any deer both archery and rifle. Gonna try real hard to kill a ND antelope. My schedule is back to normal so will be applying for black hill's deer seasons too. Possibility I may draw an archery Custer State Park early elk tag.
Montana is June 1st. SD is later in late July to early august.
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Leave our ND antelope alone!!! ;:;bowdown
So can a SD resident apply for ND antelope? Sign me up! another hunt with the bullhead master!
You've got to get a Standing Rock tag. They are sold out or possibly not offered this year for rifle. Not sure about archery tags for antelope. I went to Deadwood last weekend. Numbers aren't what they used to be but the traditional areas are all starting to have animals on them again.
How did the drawings turn out so far for you guys? I drew a rifle MT antelope tag and drew an easy mule deer doe tag in MT. SD denied me for an any deer with 5 points. Might try for a deer tag in the 3rd drawing in SD if there are some available. Maybe an OTC tag in Wyoming for antelope yet. I have the itch to hunt, bad.