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    I-193 to exempt MT Landowners from elk/deer/bear regs

    It won’t even garner enough signatures to gain the ballot…my prediction. Carry on
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    Back to the drought. In the late 80’s R6 was literally covered in mule deer. I could count 200-400 deer per day in 670, 630, 620 districts. Maybe the deer in those days were less dependent on water? Tougher, like my ancestors who homesteaded here…. Has to be the answer. Must’ve had nothing...
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    Ya, 11,000 doe tags cut….no difference. How stupid am I. I’m down on cow numbers due to drought….I’ve looked at the FWP model and see where I’m wrong. Today I load up and head out to shoot 50-60 of my bees cows….as it won’t make any difference…and may lead to more cattle moving into my...
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    They will. If they want does killed on their private then it’s up to the landowner.
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    Fwp December commission meeting

    What road killed deer? There are so few deer left it’s rare to see one smashed on highway 2.
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    We are not going to shoot our way out. FWP may try, but it won’t work. Jason Snavely has an article on CWD (google it, post it on here, it’s beyond my IT capacity). His research shows there are deer resistant to CWD, and living past 4 yrs of age in captivity. As I’ve long suspected...
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    There is no simple answer, but I do have some complex restrictive answers. I don’t have time to expound at the moment, as I have about 35 hrs of hunting season left to go. I’ll be happy come 5pm Sunday.
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    It’s too late, the genie is out of the bottle. This leaves us where we are at. The quick fix is LE permits. The prolonged approach (we still end up LE permits eventually) is pick your region, pick your area, pick weapon, last w 2 weeks season LE permit, ect..
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    Montana Representative Rosendale at it again

    I noticed that, when Missoula elected whatever it is.
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    Population Growth and Hunting in Rocky Mountain States

    From what I’m hearing out of R6 we may need not worry about mule deer management any longer. With the insane amount of antlerless license all mule deer on public land may be eliminated, and if the 2 buck deal went through (haven’t heard how meeting couple night ago went) it’ll be tragic...
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    Their “proactive management “ is AHM,adaptive harvest management, and it only addresses the female harvesting. It works for ducks(FWP plagiarized AHM from D.U.) not for bucks. Why? On account the duck harvest is limited to actual nest counts and the daily limit.
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    The graph really tell us one thing, guesstimated buck harvests mirrors estimates of aum’s but at a lessor number….generally estimated, and once disseminated really tells us about range conditions and cattle numbers. Why the increase in aum’s? Perhaps CRP being grazed instead of getting farmed...
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    Muley hunting around Miles City, Mt

    Do not mistake disappointment for hatred.
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    Muley hunting around Miles City, Mt

    Populations are abysmal. Age class abysmal. In the picture I see 2 yr olds and one 3yr old, none of which should be killed. It’d be nice if the hunting public by and large had any self control. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard “well, it was the last couple days and I...
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    Eastward MT Griz

    Last I checked it was still a n Montana.
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    This doesn’t sound good!

    Agreed, refinery capacity is what’s killing us. The empowerment of the EPA has made new refineries near impossible to build.
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    This doesn’t sound good!

    Here’s the deal where people like myself come from on oil/gas exploration. I don’t have a job/lifestyle where burning diesel is an option. For most people in the U.S. travel(other than to and from work) is optional. You don’t “have” to go hunting/fishing/vacationing. discretionary spending...
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    Eastward MT Griz

    Huh?
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    This doesn’t sound good!

    I didn’t “jump”….
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    This doesn’t sound good!

    I understand the angst of residential development, something we dont see here in Eastern Mt. If this is the end game then I’d be opposed to it also. If it’s only oil/gas extraction then produce it.

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