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.
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...
I believe they came up with a regulation that didn't allow you to have a bare hook, or something like that, so the workaround was to use a rock worm "fly" instead.
When I lived in Casper from about 2011-2014, the big thing in the spring was fishing a pegged bead. You have your line looped through a bead that sits a couple inches above a bare hook, and the bead imitates a trout egg. When a fish grabs the bead, you set the hook and basically snag the fish. I...
I feel like you’re comparing Montana’s mule deer hunting with the AZ Strip or the Kaibab. No one is saying it will ever be that good. Most people on here are just saying that it has been and could be so much better than it is currently.
My dad and I rarely hunt elk together, but in 2020 we happened to be together when we found this bull and about 10 cows and calves. My dad hung back and watched from across the drainage while I snuck in on him. I got to within 50 yards of him and a bedded cow. The rest of the cows were bedded 30...