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Sep 21, 2017
Hunting in Dillon, Montana
by: Anonymous

Have you hunted on Tom Curran's ranch?


Nov 06, 2014
11/06/14
by: fortbuilder

I noticed your post and wondered if you finally hunted around Dillon, MT. Thus far "beginning of the second week of general rifle season" has been promising. Second day of season on the west side of the Pioneers, I came up on a fellow hunter loading his elk in his vehicle. We didn't see any game until later that evening. Which ended up being a travesty.
I know that you are an out of state hunter. Therefor I'm relating this happening to you in order to request some courtesy. As mentioned above it was later that evening when we actually did see a suitable bull.
But, while clearly, setting in our vehicle and glassing the area that I knew held elk, and had seen them cross in this specific location, a vehicle from CA pulled up with four or five hunters, right in front of us. They got out and discussed their and our luck thus far. Then began racking their firearms and loading on their back packs, loudly joking with each other. Simply making a great deal of noise.
They began as a group to walk down the draw ahead of us. Not reaching 30 yards from their vehicle, a bull stepped out on the other side of them from us. He then spun around and over the top down into no mans land. The CA hunters didn't even see him though they were half way between him and us. That one missed opportunity of him and one glimpse of a mule deer buck was the end of that days hunt.
I mention this because I've hunted WY and MT for over 50 years now and the same scenario has occurred frequently with out of state hunters. It's simply a lack of courtesy. One would be surprised with the gratitude and respect from locals toward those out of state hunters that display a degree of prudence and courtesy toward other hunters. While it's "yahoo's" like this that give a state hunters are from a bad name. The action one takes, being an out of state hunter reflects directly on the state they are from. Believe me, locals talk to locals.
On a brighter note, thus far hunting has been good in the Dillon area since then. With large numbers of mulley's, normal numbers of whitetail and though the cold weather is not supposed to roll in until this weekend, several sightings of elk. Heck I even spotted a big horn sheep today.

Jul 31, 2013
Where to hunt
by: Anonymous

Try storm park or vipond

Jan 13, 2013
Dillon
by: JR

I don't see any comments here so I thought I would put in mine. I did not have a lot of experience in this area but did spend 3 days hunting the Dillon area. I was so depressed over the wolf conditions in unit 250 and 270, I drove toward Dillon. Between Wisdom and Dillon looked promising, but the closer I got to Dillon, I only saw game on private ranches near town. I spent a day in the hills near Tweedy Mountain, never saw an animal. North of Dillon might be a good choice too. I spent a day driving from Dillon to Idaho thru Blacktail. I saw hundreds of animals leaving Dillon on private land. Once the private land ended, I never saw an animal.

Oct 10, 2012
elk
by: Anonymous

joe, being a fellow new yorker im going to help you. My worker from dillion mt says depending on snow conditions will determine your hunt. T he elk will be pushed up high in the mountains if there is no snow and opening day will be your only chance,but he says if there is alot of snow the elk will be forced to stay in lower country.
The shuetts ranch he says hold elk durring the hunting season ,the blacktail mts are over hunted and the elk get pushed out of site by other hunters. good luck and if you can put money away for tresspass fees you can get on land.

Oct 26, 2010
Elk Hunting in Montana
by: Dave, MT (ElkHuntingTips.Net)

Joe, I don't hunt around Dillon, so I can't help you, but if there is time check out the Book Elk Hunting Montana. See the review here:
https://www.elk-hunting-tips.net/elk-hunting-montana.html

You can zero in on the area you want to hunt in this book.

I tried to hunt mulies there once and just got lost.

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