Called a warden about one of those this weekend in Region 7. Feathers and carcass weren’t there when I signed in. Only one other party that day. Warden said he figured out who it was pretty quickly and they got ticketed for littering. Sometimes providing a very minimal amount of info to the...
Like Austin Knudsen’s ill-fated bill to ban non-profits from purchasing land in MT, it seems Chuck has also forgotten about the non-profit status of churches. LDS church owns almost 200,000 acres in MT. Think the funding for those purchases was taxed?
You have to be careful with those false morels. They’ll get you every time. Real morels seem to be scarcer every year. Political candidates these days are pretty much fungible.
Many Republicans stated early on that they didn’t agree with the court’s decision to send the veto override out for vote and would not be voting. Not sure they could get much more spineless. Can’t even stand up for their own Legislative authority to override a veto. At least vote No.
I expect they’re on their way to doing just that. They’re running the rest of the Agency. Ask MOGA for their season setting recommendations sometime and then compare them to what’s approved by the commission. I’ll save you the time. They’re the same. I might make up some rubber stamps that say...
These guys are largely not hunting public anymore anyways. Maybe THP, occasionally MeatEater. Guarantee Matzinger and Eastman aren’t getting permits to film on the landlocked BLM inside their giant leases. But they must be hunting it because they’re always shooting a “great public land...
Zing! You also knew it was him because you heard a dude trying to sound like David Attenborough while explaining why it’s best for the resource that he shoots a giant bull and buck every year. Also all of the phones books on the driver’s seat of his jacked up truck.
People who hunt antelope in Sitka soft shell pants and not blue jeans haven’t spent enough time crawling through prickly pear. But they look cool I guess.
I have a warden buddy who’s told me the same. They’ve threatened to get a warrant but they don’t believe the info is even accurate. Said the bio told him that more than 12 cows had been reported harvested in a district that was closed to all harvest. Apparently FWP is afraid of people lying if...
Glad he got a somewhat stiff sentence but confused why Idaho was the one to charge him when he broke the law in Montana first and stole Montana’s resource.
I support the proposal. That’s not what I’m saying. It’s the fact that no matter the public support for an idea, it will never get any traction without support from this commercial interest.
But it certainly demonstrates who is controlling regulation of wildlife in our state. And it makes me very uncomfortable that the group that does so is a commercial interest. The next altruistic outfitter I meet will be the first.
Heard the same excuses from Fish & Game when they started elk shoulder seasons. No one would ever charge anyone to shoot a cow. Lasted a week before outfitters were advertising shoulder season hunts for $500. Up to $3000 in places now. But I’m sure their support for the public land doe ban is...
Such a satiated bunch with the status of MT hunting. It would seem someone has at least the left ear of the good Governor. And what else do I spy but perhaps the most blatantly biased and corrupt Commissioner in state history. Just makes me warm all over thinking about what the future holds.
I’m convinced none of the conversations in this entire thread matter or will ever be implemented in Montana in its current iteration. The outfitters on here talk big but there is no way they will ever support anything that limits mule deer hunting for paying clients. And what they want is how...
Let’s be perfectly clear when we say “FWP decided to declare what the law is.” Their interim director made the statement. An IT guy angling for permanent appointment who would parrot anything GG and his landowner/outfitter cronies tell him to.