Welcome to: BIG M OUTFITTERS ROUTE 1 BOX 519 PHILIPSBURG, MT 59858 PHONE (406) 859-3746 bhogue@montana.com Hunting | Fishing | Fishing Image Gallery | Hunting Image Gallery Links | About Your Host | Home Page
	Big M Outfitters Hunting Thank you for your interest in a hunt with Big M Outfitters. I hope we can answer most of your questions and give you a clear understanding of the service we provide. If desired, please contact us directly for additional answers to your questions. Our hunting Area is referred to as: "An Outfitter Resource Area (OAR)", and no other outfitter is permitted to operate here. The actual hunting ground is approximately 40 miles north to south and 35 miles east to west. On the north are the John Long Mountains; to the east, the Flint Creek Range; south, the Anaconda Pintlar Wilderness Area; and to the west, the Sapphire Range. Listen to this featured elk sound This is a prime area to hunt consisting of over 350,000 Acres. Hunters stay at the Big M lodge and cabins during the rifle and archery seasons. The lodge is situated in the Flint Creek Valley, a valley surrounded by the afore mentioned mountain ranges. Comfortable beds, hot showers and home cooked meals add to a pleasant hunting experience. Located in the Flint Creek Valley, to the west runs Rock Creek, western Montana's only Blue Ribbon Trout Stream. Depending on where you are hunting, hunters and their guides might return around midday for a hot lunch, with time for fishing, target shooting, relaxing, etc., before going back out for the afternoon hunt. Three home-cooked meals as well as a sack lunch will also be provided. The reason for having a comfortable accommodations and plenty of good food is to make sure everyone is in the best possible condition and frame of mind to hunt. Elk hunting is hard work - that's what makes the elk one of the top trophies among sportsmen. Big M Outfitters operates in excellent elk country. If there is a doubt, feel free to contact the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks about the subject - reference the Sapphire Mountain Range, John Long Mountains, Anaconda Pintlar Wilderness Area, and the Flint Creek Range. We cannot guarantee any hunter an elk, but our goal is to make every effort to increase the chances of a successful and enjoyable hunt.  Our guides always work hard to give you their best possible; they know the area, are skilled, dependable and extremely enthusiastic. The altitude at which Big M operates is about 6500 feet with the highest being 7,500 feet or so. Even though the altitude is good, the mountains can be just as steep and rugged as any in the west - that's why the game is there. Most of the better elk country is heavily timbered with a sprinkling of open meadows, although some areas offer the classic open country. Within Big M's hunting area, the elk is the most targeted animal. There is also a healthy population of both mule deer and whitetail. With a Nonresident combination license, it is legal to harvest one (1) bull elk, one (1) buck deer, mule or whitetail . During the archery season cows and does are legal. The license also includes a fishing and upland bird license. We can assist you in obtaining your license, and can guarantee your success to receive a license. Contact us for details. Bow Hunting The archery season opens in early SEPTEMBER and coincides with the elk rut and bugling activity. This is conducted from our comfortable and completely furnished lodge and cabins. This is an exciting and wonderful time of year to experience hunting in Montana, with warm days and crisp, cool nights. Our bow hunts consist of seven days, 6 full days of hunting, with hunters arriving and departing on Saturdays. Seven (7) nights - six (6) days hunting:  $2350 per person. 2000 Archery Season Sept. 9 through Sept. 16 Sept. 16 through Sept. 23 Sept. 23 through Sept. 30 Sept. 30 through Oct. 7 General Rifle Season The general rifle season in Montana runs for five (5) weeks beginning approximately the last week of OCTOBER and month of NOVEMBER. We offer (5) 6 day hunts with hunters arriving and departing on Saturdays. 2000 Rifle Season Oct. 28 through Nov. 4 Nov. 4 through Nov. 11 Nov. 11 through Nov. 18 Nov. 18 through Nov. 25 Nov. 25 through Dec. 2 Mountain Lion Sheep / Goat & Moose Spring Bear Lions are hunted in December and January with hounds.  Quite often deep snow is encountered and snowmobiles are utilized.  This is an exciting hunt and we take only 1 to 2 hunters per season. Hunt rate is $450 per day (6 day minimum) Tags for bighorn sheep, mountain goat and moose are very limited with applications are due by May 1 ($453) Hunt rate is $450 per day (6 day minimum) Our spring bear hunts start the first week of  May.  It is a wildlife paradise this time of year  with elk, deer and big horn sheep for viewing.. Hunt rate is $1100 per hunter (7 days lodging 6 days hunting).  License can be purchases for $120. Booking A Hunt Archery Hunts $2350 per 6 days of full hunting Rifle Hunts $2350 per 6 days of full hunting Big M offers 5 weekly rifle hunts during the 1999 season. Choose the week that best fits your schedule. Package includes transportation to and from Missoula airport. Food, guide and hunting services for 6 full days. Assistance on best routes available to those driving. Pickup at airport or motel and transportation to headquarters at Philipsburg, MT. Time allotted to sight in rifles before supper - 1st day. The next six days devoted to hunting. If you decide to come early or stay longer to enjoy a little more of what Montana has to offer, rental cars are available at the airport. Also Big M Outfitters can make reservations for your stay at the Reserve Street Inn in Missoula: it serves as an excellent point for pickup on the day of your departure to the camp. Reserve Street Inn offers a courtesy phone at the Missoula airport and service includes transportation to and from the airport at no additional cost.
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