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    Posted: 10 May 2005 at 06:14

Well, I tried Elk Hunting in Southern Montana last year with no success.  So I would like to try Elk Hunting in Northern Montana this year.  Any general suggestions for an area where there is access to lots of public land and a fair chance for a bull.

 

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You can do an early "Bob Marshall" hunt?? It's all forest land.

 Any thing on the "Front" ??? I don't do Elk mush any more, I've been putting in foe a CMR Elk. Only like 10 permits in an area.

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 If you're in  good shape, or have animals I'd shoot for the southern end of the Bob and the Lincoln area or the Sun River country. Southwest Mt. really is better hunting IMO, I'd try it again.

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  I would look into the Bob myself. I kick myself for not hunting it when I lived in MT. Beauftiful country up there too, though I have seen some nice scenary down here on the beach

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Drop out of the Bob, and try the Swan Valley, if you want to hunt the north part. Better access, for the most part.
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welcome to the baitshop, 22wrf -

all of the suggestions made are excellent and deserve consideration; i'll throw in another one.

lewistown, in central montana, is surrounded b y 6 mountain ranges, all containing elk. just north of those ranges are the missouri breaks. i've all of this is prime elk habitat, and everyone i knew when i lived in lewistown was successful in their elk hunts.
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  Last time i hunted the "BOB" out of Lincoln it was a bust--ditto last time we took our horses to Little Belts-area out of Augusta was good BUT lotta Grizz lately wrecking camps and generally being a pain in the Butt-when will feds wake up??
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That area around Lewiston intrigues me.  Care to narrow it down a bit more?  I plan on a couple of scouting trips out there this summer and a recommendation for a trailhead or two would be super!

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22wrf -

if you look at a map of montana, lewistown literally sits in the exact center (don't confuse it with lewiston, idaho). it sits in a basin known as the judith basin, named for the judith river, which lewis and clark named for clark's 13-yr-old fiance, julia hancock (he was 36). the basin is surrounded by 6 mountain ranges: the little snowys, the big snowys, the little belts, the north moccasins, the south moccasins and the highwoods. these ranges encircle the basin like a horseshoe, with the missouri river cutting it off at the north. north of the missouri river breaks as the bear paw and the little rocky mountains.

all of these 8 ranges, as well as the missouri breaks, are good elk country. some of them are special-permit only, but much of it is open and a lot of the land is public, either through the BLM or the US forest service. there is also a LOT of private land which is open to hunters through the block management access program, which is run by the state.

i can't narrow it down much more than that, because i ahve heard personal accounts of elk being seen and/or hunted in all of those areas. if i were going to go elk hunting there, i would probably aim for the district either in the little belts near buffalo, montana; the judiths, which i think are all in one district; the missouri breaks on the south side of the river north of winifred; or the big snowys just wouth of lewistown. many elk in all of these areas. i have heard reports from people i trust talking about herds that were composed literally of hundreds of elk in all four of these areas, and all areas have good hunter access. pictures that these people took as well as newspaper accounts will bear this out as well.

having said all of the above, i have never hunted elk, but i have hunted deer and/or antelope in all of those areas. the parts that i was in were not quite in "elk country," but they were all good experiences, just the same.

if you get serious about this area, i'd be more than happy to pass along some contacts. if you gave them a call andreferred to ron, who used to work at the yogo inn," they's probably be happy to point you in the right direction!

also, check out montana's FWP site (here's the link: http://fwp.state.mt.us/default.html) lots of good information, maps, regulations, deadlines for applications, etc. there.

any other questions, just let me know.
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  BEEUUTIFUL Country- looked at a few places to live a few years ago but prices in lewistown were ahead of the curve even then. We hunt birds and deer there every year as buddy from choteau has relatives and kids he coached in baseball farming/ranching there.I hunted for years south of there near Tumbleweed on friends place.
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