The antler restrictions dont work, they have tried it. The T-roots used to be a 4pnt area. They found they just get shot as soon as they reach the legal size. If you want bigger deer you have to restrict harvest i.e less tags or shorter seasons. This isnt going to happen anytime soon in MT. Everyone wants to shoot big deer unless it impacts them.
I'd personally like to see mule deer go entirly to limited draw. But that isnt going to happen either. I do think going to unlimited/limited tags would help some. In that you pick a unit and thats the ONLY unit you can hunt mule deer in.
We also need to drastically improve deer habitat. One way to do this would be to let more of our fires burn larger areas. This would have a huge impact on increasing quality deer habitat.
I'd personally like to see mule deer go entirly to limited draw. But that isnt going to happen either. I do think going to unlimited/limited tags would help some. In that you pick a unit and thats the ONLY unit you can hunt mule deer in.
We also need to drastically improve deer habitat. One way to do this would be to let more of our fires burn larger areas. This would have a huge impact on increasing quality deer habitat.
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