Hunting Trip Information

Here we have some useful information for clients getting ready for their hunting trip.

ONLINE FORM REGISTRATION: HUNT & BOOKING CONTRACT

Hunting License Information: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Website

Hunting Camp Rules & Hunter's Checklist (printable format)

License & Deposit Information (printable format)

Get Directions  - Aerial Map of Camp

Local Weather Forecast

Sportsman's Travel Insurance Plan: Travel Protection specifically designed with the sportsman in mind! Business Member of the Montana Outfitters and Guides Association #150573.

Insurance Benefits Include:

• Trip Cancellation & Interruption License Fee Refund (license cost)

• $1,500 Trip Delay ($150 maximum per day)

• $25,000 Medical Expense

• $500,000 Medical Evacuation

• $2,500 Sportsman's Equipment & Personal Effects

• $250 Sportsman's Equipment Delay

Plus Exclusive Services like travel assistance, hunter's hotline, and additional coverage options. For more information contact your outfitter for an enrollment form that includes plan costs and a brief outline of coverage. Or contact Travel Guard International by phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 1-866-877-3241.

Travel Guard International
1145 Clark Street
Stevens Point, WI 54481-9970
 

Outfitter Discounted Room Rates at Best Western in Bozeman, MT: For those of you who are coming in a day early for your trip and arriving on Friday, Best Western Plus, Gran Tree in Bozeman has a discount for you! Just call and make a reservation for Friday night and tell them your hunting with Montana Whitetails and receive a special room rate. Just let us know your plans and we'll pick you up Saturday morning during our normal airport transportation day. 

Call Best Western Plus, Gran Tree Inn at 406-587-5261 or toll free at 1-800-624-5865 and tell them your hunting with Montana Whitetails to receive your discounted room rate. 

Best Western Plus, Gran Tree Inn, 1325 North 7th Avenue, Bozeman, MT 59715

Click HERE to visit their website and make your reservations today. 

 

Who to Contact when you arrive at Bozeman airport: When you arrive at the airport please contact one of the following Montana Whitetails represenatives who will be there to pick you up. Due to mulitple departing/arrival times for clients, please contact more than one represenative if you do not reach one of us as they may be assigned to pick up or drop off clients later in the morning/evening. We must have your flight itinerary before your arrival for our shuttle transportation planning. 

Steve Miller  717-991-2258

Rob Clavie  914-774-0372

Keith Miller 717-512-3582

 

Staying up to Date:

Each year we continue to update our readers with news and photographs through our website here, and our Facebook page, which is our company name, Montana Whitetails. Keep checking in for the latest pictures and news from our elk hunting properties as we move closer to hunting season here in Montana. Spring is a time we walk all the properties and set new stands, check existing stands or ground blinds, look for new travel patterns and make adjustments for the coming season. Plus, we will try to update which dates are available for the upcoming season along with other information that may be of interest to you on our news page. For all the latest updates and photos, follow us through this website or on our Facebook page through the link on our home page of this site.

Limited Hunters:

We take up to 6 elk hunters per week, but can accommodate more if there are group bookings. Most weeks we have 2 - 4 elk hunters, however, our lodge(s) will hold 10 hunters that comprise of elk, whitetail deer, mule deer, and antelope hunters at the same time due to over lapping seasons. With this limited number of elk hunters on the vast area of several key elk hunting private properties, we can offer a quality, successful hunting trip to each elk hunter. We have the flexibility to move you to different elk hunting areas without disturbing other hunters.

What to Expect:

Your trip begins when you arrive in Bozeman, at the Yellowstone International Airport, (BZN). We'll pick you up so please send us your flight itinerary when you make your travel plans. The first afternoon, (Saturday), you'll settle in to your lodging accommodations and shoot your bow or rifle. Then set down for a home cooked meal while telling hunting stories and going over plans for the following days hunt. Your hunt begins Sunday morning and you'll hunt through Friday evening, 6 full days of hunting. You'll be in constant contact with your guide and we'll make sure to accommodate everyone's needs to make their trip a enjoyable, lifetime memory. We have several lodges and will schedule you in the one that most suits your booked hunting trip. You'll depart Bozeman on the following Saturday after your arrival. Meals (breakfast, lunch, & dinner), airport shuttle to camp from Bozeman, and lodging are all included in your hunting trip. Fantastic wild trout fishing in some blue ribbon waters is included and free of charge! You'll get a fishing license with your elk, or big game combination tags.

Success Rates:

Our harvest success rate with archery elk hunters average about 45% with several missed opportunities each season. Bow hunting elk can be a challenging affair for even the most seasoned bow hunters. Sometimes the elk just don't play the game by the rules. However, our rifle elk hunters fair a little better averaging around 70% success on bull elk during the firearm season here in Montana.

Your Hunt:

Your elk hunt begins on Sunday morning as you and your guide head out to the ranch we selected to start your hunt. A typical day begins with showing up pre dawn and either hiking into position or waiting for day break to glass for elk from a vantage point. A game plan is always in place before the days hunt begins but can change in an instant due to adjustments to get clients onto elk. Depending on what the elk are doing, we'll go from calling them in, to setting up for a ambush, or spot and stalk all in the same day according to what works best for that particular days situation. You could be out hunting all day, or just the mornings and afternoons depending on your expectations and goals to make your trip a enjoyable experience for you. Combination hunters have the luxury to break up a elk hunt by setting on stand for trophy whitetail deer on one of our private river bottom properties. Bow hunting only areas provide some incredible early season bow hunts for archery whitetails to enjoy during your trophy bull elk hunt. Antelope is also a really fun combo hunt to add to your guided Montana elk hunting trip. We are here to make your Montana hunting adventure a lifetime memory and will work hard to accommodate all your needs. If you need anything, just ask!

Our Private Ranches:

We lease some of the best elk habitat in SW Montana. If your looking for a full blown bow hunting adventure for bugling bull elk in a cabin smack in the heart of the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Montana during the peak of the rut, we have it. If your looking for a relaxing low elevation, spot and stalk or tree stand and ground blind elk hunt, we have that too. Archery or rifle, we have quality private land hunting loaded with resident elk, all from the comforts of a lodge we can return you to after each days hunt. Our lands consist of mountain side dark timber and clear cuts in the foothills, to the rolling valley river bottom's with irrigated alfalfa, wheat, oats, and barely fields for the perfect habitat to hold lots of Montana elk and other big game species. Whitetail deer, antelope, mule deer, moose, & black bear are also abundant on our private ranches and makes for awesome combination hunting opportunities during your trip. 

Elk Hunting Gun & Gear Recommendations:

Bullet Information ~ More important than the caliber of rifle you use, is the type of bullet you'll be shooting from that rifle. I've had hunters drill elk with perfect shot placement from calibers as large as .700 Win Mags and had them walk off as if they missed and fall over 30 seconds later. And I had one client shooting a .243 with a DRT bullet drop both his bull elk and cow elk immerdiately where they stood.

Check out www.drtammo.com for more information on their ammunition. Bullet type is paramont while elk hunting so make sure to research your caliber and make educated choices on whch bullet you'll be bringing with you to Montana for your elk hunt. make sure you practice with that round at a shooting range and know the ballistics of that bullet at ranges out to 400-500 yards. More information can be found in our elk hunting guns and gear articles under the news and more menu link on our website.

* Please see our gun & gear hunting artcicles in our "Hunting Articles" section of this website under the news and more menu link. 

 

More Information coming soon!