hey guys dan pickar here today i'm going to show you how to use eastman's tag hub to find deer
hunting opportunities in montana i have eastman's tag hub system pulled up here on the computer
and i kind of just want to take you through like what i would do or what i do
if i want to to deer hunt in montana how i can use tag hub to my advantage and find a hunt
that is right for me that's the goal with this video so i'm gonna click to montana it's gonna
take me to the main state here and uh i go up to my primary filter here and go let's do
mule deer and then we're gonna go split archery any weapon filter here on the weapon filter
now the tricky part with tag hub and there can be some confusion when you first start it because
this is a hunt based system you just don't click on a hunt area and get your information instead
you filter it out based on the species you want to hunt the season uh the sex the type
and residency the difficult part with this is every state is a little bit different so we're
using terminology that is you know kind of blanket terminology across the board for all the different
states so to go into this like in montana you have your general archery season you have your general
rifle season um the archery season is usually you know that six weeks there from september
to the middle october in that time frame six or seven weeks and then the general season is always
the third saturday in october uh to the sunday after thanksgiving and whatever those dates
uh fall on uh is different every year based on the calendar of course so in this filter
with the weapon filter it you you want the split archery any weapon season so this is an archery
or a rifle hunt for that tag so mule deer split archery any weapon season oh that's the weapon
filter i've selected and then buck limited entry and this brings up the
deer permit units that are available in the deer permit draw so i can go through
and look at my stats down here i got my trophy forecast on the right side of the screen but you
have all your ratings down below here so you know popular one is area 270 uh down in the bitterroot
probably the most coveted tag in the state but here we go we have excellent trophy forecasts 85
public land and 89 3-year average success so just by going through these filters here
you can narrow down kind of the hunt that might be right for you or at least statistically what might
be right for you and the public land dates the season dates and uh your draw odds of course and
then over here on the right you all you also have it on the right side of the screen here in your
drop down menus of your the forecast of your game game management unit because i selected area 270
uh in montana um so once again these are all the units that are available in montana for
deer permit which gives you the ability to hunt mule deer that's what this is for you know say
i applied for a deer permit i don't draw it but i did get my maybe my big game combo or my general
deer combo so i do have a general license there's actually a lot of different options available
and areas to hunt in montana on a general deer combo or a general big game combo i can switch
my type filter to general and this is going to tell me where i can shoot a buck mule deer
throughout the state during the split uh any weapon season so i have the central part of the state
and northwest part of the state and the the reason this is different because there's a lot of general
areas is each unit specifically is different so if if you have you know an area picked out you
still need uh to understand that you might not be able to shoot you know a white tail doe on
that general tag or a mule deer doe some areas you can but that's just something to keep in
mind when you go through these filters okay so uh the weapon filter um you'll have to to play with
the split archery any weapon season and then of course you have the any weapon which would
be like the rifle only season it's going to bring up the same hunts but a lot of these hunts you
have the ability to hunt all of general archery on that tag and all of general rifle on that tag
and so that's the difference between the weapon filter so yeah split split archery weapon you
can see on my screen that you can darn near hunt the entire state for whitetail deer
in either sex i mean that goes to show you right there of course all the units are different so
you still have some details to work through so let's say you want to hunt area 701 here
we can just click on it and we can see the forecast over here on the right side um harvest
and uh you know what the forecast is like it's all marginal hunt identification you have
all the variables in here your season dates um either sex on your deer and whatnot so if i want
to hunt a mule deer on general i'm gonna select mule deer and uh we're gonna do the split archery
weapon we're gonna do non-resident and either sex so there you go so that's also on a general these
are the areas that you can hunt mule deer with a general without a permit during the archery
general season and the rifle general season so once again a lot of eastern montana i mean most
of the state really pretty straightforward that's just the differences between
your filters all your mule deer permits that are good for archery and rifle in the state of montana
with their trophy ratings click on your hunt unit and you can get your details specific details and
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