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I was born and raised and currently live in ND. I spent 4 years in AZ. I felt like the summers in AZ were much worse than a winter in ND. That being said I was raised here and this is what I’m used to. I felt like eirher one is miserable, but I got borderline depressed in AZ in the summer as there’s zero relief in sight, until October. In ND jn the winter, it might get down to -20 for a low for a few days but there’s always relief on the horizon. We get what they call Chinook winds and they’ll bring in some 40-50 degree days here and there throughout the winter. Sometimes weeks of it. Helena will be even warmer. You can atleast go out in it and enjoy the day. The summers I spent jn the valley, there was a 0% chance of any change in the weather, even the Monsoons just brought humidity and little relief in my opinion. As far as the hunting, MT public land hunting is not as good as AZ, BUT, you get to hunt every year. OTC rut hunting for elk and deer every year. You can very easily kill a small 6pt bull elk, and a 150-170 class muley or 135-150 class whitetail every year if you hunt a little. You can’t do that every year jn AZ with the draw. Antelope are about every other year for resident draw. AZ otc is coming to an end so if you want to hunt elk and deer every year, MT is your place. Breaks archery elk tags are every other year or so and may not offer the top end as a high end AZ elk unit, but you’ll be hunting 300-330 bulls daily in there. The bird hunting is expceptional if that’s something your into, and the fishing top notch.

I was born and raised in MN. You couldn’t pay me to go back there. Winters suck and are 5 months long. Always cloudy…. spring time, everything is soggy and muddy. Bugs and ticks are horrible and salt on the roads destroy your vehicles. We had to plug in our cars at night in the winter just so they would start in the morning (cars there usually have block heaters to keep oil from gelling. Nothing worse than getting your a$$ out of bed in the winter mornings when it’s still dark and -10° and your windshield is solid ice and you can’t drive anywhere until you scrape the ice off for 20 min. Or if there is a snowstorm and you can leave until you shovel your driveway to get out of garage. There is a reason this state is full of people from the midwest. I moved here in 2002 with my wife and didn’t know anyone. Now my folks live here and so does my sister and her family, my aunts, uncles and cousins. They came to visit and decided to leave that he!!hole too I do miss small town living though. for me an AZ summer is so much easier than a midwest winter. Summer just deal with heat. Winters you deal with snow, cold, ice, crappy roads, wearing boots everywhere, shoveling snow, short days, no sun. Never been to MT but i’m guessing winters are just as bad.

From what I understand public land hunting in Montana is much much tougher than it is in Arizona. I guess if that's a factor to you that's one you might want to consider. If you're going to be paid well enough and be able to take time off to hunt I would get the AZ lifetime license and come back here when you get lucky enough to get a tag but that sounds easy and real life doesn't always let you do those things. Some other minor considerations would be the amount of snow and salt and wear and tear on vehicles up there compared to down here, also do you and your wife like to garden if so that's also going to be harder up there. Lots of things to consider.

For most of my life I have always wanted to move to Montana. I’ve visited a couple of times now and absolutely love it. I’ve only been there when it’s snowing once and it was only for 2 days. I didn’t think it was that bad, but I also didn’t live my day to day life in it. I was just offered a job near Helena and my wife and I are really considering putting our house up for sale and leaving Az. Just curious if anyone is from Montana or anywhere else that has similar weather. Looking to get opinions on the living conditions year round in a place like that.

Now there’s a realistic trophy pose! Great bull!

If you ever make it down to Tucson I'll take this.

Akc ready 8/11- 480-707-8681 ❤️female 🖤male

Just think of it like our summers, it's hot as heck for a few months and it's cold as balls for a few months there.

My daughter moved to Grand Forks North Dakota and she adapted to it fairly quick

I've got the same rifle. It's a great shooter. Mine likes 73gr bergers. Glws

I’ve never lived in an area like that myself but some good friends moved to MT from Tucson a few years ago. It makes total sense in hindsight, but they said it was very different than they expected living there day-to-day even when they had visited for several weeks at a time during the coldest part of the year. It took them a lot of getting used to. I don’t think that’s a negative though, since they love it there year-round.

TTT. Recoil is more of a push. Similar to a 45-70.

Just checked when I joined 2014. I was guessing 2016-17 ha ha

I used rooster tails for 5 minutes last weekend. Gave up and enjoyed the day with my dog. Water was very turbid.

No bails anymore , now they get runners amp up on meth , like speedy Gonzalez and run Fentanyl Had some great talks with BP . Just remember! They have spotters , with great glass . They are always watching you

15 for me, I signed up with a different screen name earlier and didn't care for it after some time, so I changed to my last name.

19 in November for me. Great to see you TJ! Huge thanks to Amanda for creating this place for folks to get together and share stories, etc.

Not when you cant chew venison.

No, they switched back to crf I think in 1992 but can’t remember for sure what year.

I hope he continues to apply and gets your tag every year

The fishing rules are mind numbing. For crab you'll need calipers and the ability to distinguish sexes. But unlike the local libtards's, you only have to worry about male vs female.

Man, Mike was awesome! I went to high school with him, but he was one year ahead of me. I knew who he was, but it was a really big school and we were in different friend groups. When I found this site I spent hours and hours reading stories and looking throught the picture galleries. That's when I found out Mike was a serious coues hunter. He came by and scored a big deer my dad had killed, and also brought some antlers to show us. Not long before he passed we talked about doing some spot and stalk archery hunting down south in some areas I knew pretty well. It never happened. There are a LOT of members here that stopped posting years ago. There are also a lot that very rarely post. Some of these guys are the best of the best when it comes to successfully harvesting coues. It is humbling to see how good they are at it.

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