Big Buck Surprise
By Brent Sperry | MD-MT-DIY-PL
The year started off finding out that my hunting partner, my son and I had all drawn Missouri River Breaks bull tags. We could not wait for the season to get here and we were immediately in planning mode for the elk hunt. Once opening day arrived we first started in the “Breaks” looking for any signs of elk. The weather grew from really cold to really warm after a few days. The ground started to thaw and get muddy so we decided to head back home to western Montana to start planning the next trip once the weather hopefully would cooperate a little better.
The group had planned to go back a week and a half later. That gave us a weekend to venture out and search for deer in the mountains around home. We decided to go check out a place that I have hunted since I was a kid. I remember there were usually quite a few deer in the area which gave me hope that we’d get lucky.