Missouri Breaks

Need A Place To Go?

Where can you go to hunt in Montana that provides you with opportunities for huns, sharptails, pheasants, geese, ducks, turkeys, antelope, deer and elk? (Of course, you need to draw tags for antelope and elk.) The answer is the Missouri River Breaks. What makes this area even better is that you don’t have to wonder if you are trespassing.

This area, commonly referred to as “the Breaks” encompasses the upper Missouri River Breaks, which begin at US Highway 87 near Fort Benton, includes the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, and concludes at Fort Peck Dam. All told, this area is approximately 274 air miles in length and provides 1,475,000 acres (including Fort Peck Reservoir) of recreation opportunities for the outdoorsman.



Stories of Success
On this trip, a friend scored a bull elk tag and shot one that we rough-scored at 330 B&C. My friend saw 11 bulls one morning and took the biggest one. In addition, he shot a 24 inch mule deer. Not bad for 10 days of hunting. I joined him later on his trip and was able to shoot the buck pictured above whose rack measured 22 inches wide and 20 inches tall.

As luck would have it the next day we saw 3 bucks that were all bigger than the buck I took. We were able to get 83 yards from them (I had my rangefinder). The biggest buck was a brusier. We guessed him at 26 inches wide. He had deep forks and a very heavy frame. With only a few weeks left in the season and where he's at I think he has a good chance at making till next year.