It depends where you are talking about. I know areas that it would easily cut the harvest in half. In some areas many deer won't even be available to kill.
Bottom line though, it doesn't need to cut the harvest in half to show population growth.
If you have a unit that has 200 bucks killed in it per year and you move the season to Oct. and hunt them before they are concentrated on winter range you might only kill 100 bucks.
In every unit that I have hunted there are predators eating deer. Many times, they are eating newborn deer. With...
The question has been asked "wont we just kill the deer in Oct. rather than Nov?
In many areas that we hunt Mule deer in MT we are hunting them on winter range. It is often the deer from hundreds of square miles concentrated in a much smaller area. I had hunted many years before I realized in...
In the Missouri Breaks mule deer study back in the day they found that hard frozen ground conditions made footing poor in the steep breaks and washes that mule deer use in winter in that country. Predation from coyotes would go way up then, and that condition was much more frequent than deep...
The B tag was 97% last year plus your general tag is good in the late season also so I don't see much changing. Late season cows are north of Rock creek only so the new expanded area in 314 won't be affected in the late season. That is how I read it.
It all depends on where you are talking about, I suppose. In most winter range areas near me the snow blows off the low ridges exposing feed and piles up in between. The elk by the hundreds eat the exposed feed to the 1 inch tall. Many of the mule deer stay up in the timber for the most part and...
If you have ever spent time on what used to be mule deer winter range in sw Mt it is completely obvious. There is nothing left to eat when elk numbers are high.
Read the Tex Creek mule deer study.
Read what MTFWP has to say about it.
Read the link in the post above yours.
I am not sure what...