Road trip to Montana.

In 2011 Adam, (our lead pro-staff member) finally talked me into going to Montana with him to hunt mule deer. We were lucky enough to draw tags so in late October we rounded up the team and headed off for the Big Sky Country. After 18 long hours we arrived at our hunting paradise and settled in to attempt to get some rest for the morning hunt. .Our adventure started off rather slow with only seeing a few small bucks the first day and a half, then out of nowhere we spotted 5 deer on a ridge with one of them being a good shooter buck. It was Jonathans turn to shoot so we worked our way up the ridge to head them off and see if we could get a shot, the deer had dropped over the other side of the hill so we were able to move quickly with out being detected. We made it to a point where we though the deer would be and sure enough there they were about 200 yards below us, but before Jonathan could get a shot they had moved down a draw out of sight. We moved fast to make our way to get in front of them again and did but only to have them give us the slip again! So off we went to make a big move to get in front of there path, we saw them coming up another draw and when they went behind a hill we sprinted down the draw toward them, that move put us within 100 yards of Jonathans intended target. The deer knew we were there but it was too late, Jonathan had lined up the Olympic Arms 300 OSSM and squeezed the trigger, BANG,,,,,,, down went Jonathans first Montana mule deer and he couldn't have been happier.....After haling out his trophy with the RTV from Country Tractor & Garden it was my turn to hunt and Jonathans turn to run the camera. The next morning we split into two team’s again, Adam and Josh were off on another section of property looking for a good buck for Adam to take down and Jonathan and I started off the morning by glassing close by where Jon had shot his buck the just the day before, after a couple hours we decided to move a few ridges over to glass some more area, as we were walking Jonathan & I spotted a buck at the same time. We glassed him and saw he was a shooter but we were in the wide open and he had up pegged. With nowhere for us to move Jonathan ranged him at 408 yard and asked if I wanted to take the shot, normally I wouldn’t because I like to have the closer footage for the camera but I liked the looks of this buck so I settled down with a rest to see how comfortable I felt, Jonathan settled on him with the camera as I lined up my Olympic Arms 300 OSSM. There was no wind and I felt good about the shot. The deer turned his head like he was looking for a place to run, I asked Jon if he was ready with the camera and how he looked, he said yes and he could see him just fine in the screen. I gently squeezed the trigger... BANG,,, I had time to put the scope back on the deer before the impact and was happy to see that not only did I connect,,, I dropped him right there in his tracks!!! Lets just say I was a little ecstatic with the outcome and jumped around like a guy who shot his first Montana Mule Deer,,, oh wait, that was my first Montana Mule Deer.  I’m also happy to say we had put another critter down with the Olympic Arms 300 OSSM and had another job for the Kubota RTV from Country Tractor.
The next morning started off with three camera guys and Adam up to bat. Although Jonathan and I had taken down our bucks I must say they were the only two shooters that we saw in three days and we had covered a lot of ground. Not sure what to expect we worked our way up a ridge at first light and the action happened quick, we reached the top we spotted several deer, Adam quickly picked out his target and although it was on of the smaller deer he had ever taken in Montana he was happy to line up his Olympic Arms 300 OSSM, squeeze the trigger and put some meat in the freezer. With that shot our Montana hunting season was over!!! We stuck around another day and thinned out the prairie dog population for the farmer, packed up our gear and headed for home already making plans for next years trip. All in all it was a great trip with great friends that make up a great team.