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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
The main reason for adjusting elk seasons is to get rid of the overlap of elk and mule deer seasons. There are a lot of mule deer killed by opportunistic elk hunters that happen to have a deer tag in their pocket. It will also spread out hunter pressure. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Current 2024 archery season is 44 days, proposed season is 37 days. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
@MTGomer didn’t have a hand in crafting this proposal. You may hate it, but don’t blame him. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
That’s what I just said. That’s why outfitters would not support including them in the 17,000 cap. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
This proposal is a balance of improving things for the resource as well as considering what’s socially achievable. If it was entirely about the resource or entirely about trying to accommodate the desires of one user group, it would look totally different. I have a hard time believing the... -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
The benefit of the choose your region is that FWP will have all the data on where hunters are going, even if harvest data is unreliable. -
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2024 Utah Draw Results
Looks like some awesome country to hunt elk in.- bigsky2
- Post #30
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
The first legislative priority in the document would be to change the statute to give the commission flexibility in setting the muzzleloader season dates. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Creating additional LE units is only going to make the remaining general units even more crowded. FWP's mule deer hunting surveys indicate that hunters prefer the opportunity to hunt mule deer bucks every year. This season structure would allow that, while also hunting mule deer when they are... -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
I don't think the majority of Montana hunters are putting in that amount of time. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
UPOM makes up a very small percentage of the landowners within the state. I know quite a few landowners that would love to see an end to the mule deer road hunting in November. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Seeing the public outcry when the elk CAC proposed choose your weapon showed us that was something we would avoid. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Splitting up whitetail and mule deer hunters will help the hunter crowding issue. We also didn’t want to put excess pressure on whitetails by allowing them to be hunted for two straight months. -
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
On the flip side, there’s benefits to the August opener too. It would be possible to locate bulls in the summer and hunt them while they are still in their summer hangouts. With the archery opener varying anywhere from Sept 1-Sept 7 in our current system, I find that opening week is kind of a... -
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Punk Rock Hunt Talkers
I’m more of 2000’s punk rock kid myself.- bigsky2
- Post #28
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
