Montana Bear Hunting

[wood1774]

I will be moving to Cascade, MT from GA in a few weeks. I just found out that I did not draw a nonresident big game combo tag in MT, needless to say I am a little bummed. I see that MT has over the counter bear tags for nonresidents. Does anyone know if there are a good number of bears in this region? I do not necessarily need to kill a bear but I would like to see some.

 

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I don't think you'll have them right in your back yard, but I wouldn't think you'd have to go far to find them.

 

[wood1774]

I don't think you'll have them right in your back yard, but I wouldn't think you'd have to go far to find them.

Thanks, that is what I want to hear!

 

[awapiti]

If you establish residency as soon as you move here, you should still be able to hunt deer and elk General areas in November. End of October will be 6 months if you arrive in Montana by end of April. Good Luck!

 

[Gerald Martin]

wood1774, You could draw a 900 series nonresident antelope tag for your archery season. Your bear tag is good for spring and fall and archery season for bear runs concurrent with deer/elk archery season this year. You could probably also snag a nonresident deer B permit in some units if you wanted to shoot a doe. Trust me there are plenty of things to do even without an elk/deer combo.

You might want to check with someone in licensing at FWP to make sure there's no problems holding both nonresident and resident licenses in the same year. I don't know if it a problem or not????? Maybe someone here knows. ?????

 

[wood1774]

wood1774, You could draw a 900 series nonresident antelope tag for your archery season. Your bear tag is good for spring and fall and archery season for bear runs concurrent with deer/elk archery season this year. You could probably also snag a nonresident deer B permit in some units if you wanted to shoot a doe. Trust me there are plenty of things to do even without an elk/deer combo.

You might want to check with someone in licensing at FWP to make sure there's no problems holding both nonresident and resident licenses in the same year. I don't know if it a problem or not????? Maybe someone here knows. ?????

Yeah I know there will be plenty of things for me to do during the fall. I was of course looking forward to hunting elk, that is all I have read and dreamed about for the last few years, but there is always next year.

I will apply for the antelope tag and hope I get better results from that drawing. Of course there will always be duck hunting!

Thanks for the info, I will check into that.