Recent content by Gerald Martin
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Overall with the required pick your region/ species and no rut hunting I don’t think the same amount of mule deer bucks will die in October as do with our current season structure. Folks from western MT are going to have to weigh their desire to hunt November whitetails over Thanksgiving...- Gerald Martin
- Post #132
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
It has potential to increase focus on mule deer. However, by removing the vulnerability of the rut from the equation and folks having to decide to hunt either a mule deer or whitetail only we’re pretty certain to see an improvement over the current five week season that allows hunt mule deer in...- Gerald Martin
- Post #129
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Please post up any general units that still have good mule deer hunting. It’s not too late for us to shoot those areas out this fall. 😎 -asking for a friend- Gerald Martin
- Post #120
- Forum: Deer
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Congratulations to @Big Fin, conservation leader!
Absolutely! This has to be pretty gratifying as @Big Fin looks back at the beginning of believing he and Matthew could do a better job at portraying public land adventures than what outdoor TV was providing. High quality content and success in conservation advocacy. Win. Win, and only the...- Gerald Martin
- Post #19
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
@Flatbrimmer - Serious question. Why shouldn’t kids be included in the sacrifices made for the good of the resource? Seems like a valuable life lesson to teach that lack of responsible choices on the part of adults translates to loss of privilege for the next generation. The youth hunt and...- Gerald Martin
- Post #101
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
No antler restrictions anywhere in our proposal. Antler restrictions wouldn’t bring about the desired changes. Everyone is fully supportive of allowing individual hunters to choose what size animals they want to shoot.- Gerald Martin
- Post #97
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
You assumed correctly. Either species and all general regions would be valid for those two days only. Youth regulations for the rest of the general season would be the same as adults.- Gerald Martin
- Post #85
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
There’s been a common thread of initial feedback from folks who read this proposal for the first time. Almost everyone has some particular small preference that would preserve their particular preferred opportunity. What type of retained/improved opportunity suggested varies widely but...- Gerald Martin
- Post #81
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
We did have conversations about this topic. General consensus among us was that we’re willing to see a significant increase in the cost of resident licenses in order to keep NR licenses within the statutory number of 6,600 NR deer tags. Personally, I feel like FWP needs to be willing to accept...- Gerald Martin
- Post #69
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
I think a personal note or email to anyone who is in a position to help implement this proposal can only be a good thing. As Ben says, be courteous and professional.- Gerald Martin
- Post #59
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Youth hunters will enjoy the opportunity to hunt either whitetail or mule deer without being limited to a single region for those two days. During the rest of general season they will be limited to pick your species/region like the rest of us.- Gerald Martin
- Post #49
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
It’s interesting to me that in this process of bouncing our ideas of our peers outside of the group, I haven’t encountered anyone who thinks the ideas won’t work to improve resource management. The only opposition that is regularly brought up is doubt that we’ll be able to get hunters to accept...- Gerald Martin
- Post #38
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Both positive and negative feedback as well as constructive ideas of how to improve our proposal are welcome. Most of the ideas we distilled into our proposal originated from discussions online and in person. All feedback is helpful in helping everyone involved determine how to navigate what...- Gerald Martin
- Post #35
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
FWP and quite a few conservation organizations and sportsmen’s groups got advance access to these proposals last week. The public draft we released today has already incorporated some changes to our original concepts based on feedback and suggestions stemming from that initial release. To...- Gerald Martin
- Post #32
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
In regards to questions about regional caps… We discussed this as a potential necessity. Currently, we are hoping that these changes and picking a region will alleviate pressure enough to not require regional caps. We’re trying to walk a balance between resource protection and opportunity...- Gerald Martin
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- Forum: Deer
