It’s a death by a thousand little cuts being made by bureaucrats. They have been playing the long game for a while now, and they’re winning. The average MT hunter doesn’t have time to dive into the depths of this stuff.
If the land is worth a shit it’s already leased. If there is a lower number of guaranteed sports it might free up some marginal leases to go into block management.
In my opinion, the ones that are towing their 5th wheels over here and hunting the bulk of the season like a plague of locusts are just as much a part of the problem.
One potential solution that we’re probably going to end up at sooner or later- all big game hunting by non-residents will have...
I am cool with them residing here and paying income tax here, instead of just owning their tax shelter properties and providing little value to our communities. Then they can get the $16 deer tag and 10 mule deer B tags like the rest of us. There aren’t that many people who are going to relocate...
You get it. If we aren’t going to make decisions based on what the biologists say, why have biologists at FWP all? Serious Question. If we didn’t have NR hunters FWP wouldn’t have to spend half their enforcement budget policing and protecting the sacred private property rights.
The problem is not people shooting scrubby little bucks. The problem is that this game has become too commodified which has degraded access, quality of animals and opportunity for Montanans. It has arguably caused our housing prices to increase forcing people from their land and homes. Access...
That is called table diving. I used to do that in Jackson Hole when I was younger. It was the only way we could afford to eat. So I am proposing that we end all our that.
I would completely scrap #3. If you’re going to look for meaningful difference in depth you need to look WAY bigger in jump. In my experience the 215 hybrid in 300 PRC like some freebore and I am right now jumping them a good ways. Don’t waste your valuable components making marginal...
Why you gotta drag me into this? My biggest, whitest problem is inequity in Montana hunting. I am a stakeholder and an expert on the future of elk in Montana. I am neither expert or stakeholder in future of Europe. Half you mf’ers couldn’t have found Ukraine on a map 2 weeks ago. Stay in your lane.
I’m so happy for you that your forefathers were standing in the right spot when the federal government gave all the land away. That doesn’t mean you get to write the rules.
And of course if you are hawking the experience, hawking a podcast, hawking some kind of gear, a tag strategy service, a YouTube channel, private land outfitted hunts, giving tags to landowners that they can sell to non resident…. Of course you are against anything like this.
I am pretty sure...
This alone shows how out of touch you are with all of this. How many NRs are coming here to help control the population? How many of those shoulder season hunts, like them or not, have any NR participation AT ALL? It’s got to be less than 5%. I argue that Montanans can do any game management job...