Hunting on the Hi Line: Part 4

And just like that, hunting season was over.

Well, technically, there's still several weeks or more left, but Jeff and his pal both shot as many deer as they wanted to over the weekend.  I guess the rest of the tags they didn't fill will go unused-- tag soup.  I will have to contribute my antelope buck tack to that mix as well.

I could have tried harder or been more insistent about hunting my antelope buck, but I spent most of the season this year just trying to figure out if I even cared to hunt at all.  I think ultimately what I enjoy about hunting the most is simply hiking outdoors and enjoying nature with friends and family.  Maybe next year I'll be able to give hunting the full effort anything deserves when trying it for the first time and actually shoot an animal.  We shall see...

Photos from this weekend below.

This is the buck Jeff shot.  Not a huge rack, but the deer had a huge body.

When you shoot a deer in the bottom of a coulee, you have to drag it up and out of the coulee...
The guys had control of the deer and I carried both their packs and weapons. 

Sun setting, silhouetting the Sweetgrass Hills. 

In the bottom of a coulee.

Deer running along the coulee ridge top.

The coulees are otherwordly in my opinion.