For anyone looking at hunting in Eastern Montana, beware that we are having an extremely tough winter... Lots of snow and bitter cold with a lot of wind and it started in Mid -December and hasn't let up. We were -37 below here yesterday morning. Deer are living in the haystacks and shelterbelts where they can. We're going to have some winterkill. How much is hard to say. My concern is that in past years after a tough winter, EHD seems to be much more prevalent. I don't know if the deers' immune system is weakened after a hard winter or what, but more often than not we see a die off from EHD in late summer after a hard winter... I'm no biologist by any means...that's just what I've observed over the years....