I’m lost on the general season for cows stuff? There are literally thousands of cow elk tags between type 4, 6, and 7 that are available with type 4 and 6 normally available in the left over draw. Putting out MORE tags or making the cow season general? clearly isn’t the answer.
My last one was 6 months. Submitted last February and got it out of jail in august. Their goal was 90 days or less but i don’t know anyone personally that’s gotten it back that quick.
Come on guys… gotta kill’em at 2 years old before CWD kills’em at 3. Isn’t that the latest and greatest “biological” recommendation 🙄 Montana is just ahead of the curve 😆. I shouldn’t laugh it’s really not funny.
Always look forward to your cow hunt recaps and @JM77 would be proud you didn’t use the “pop gun” I believe he called it 😆. Nice work and some nostalgia thrown in as well.
Would the 30% nonresident hunters in the Cody area have anything to do with “high demand” areas? The way I understood it was that it was determined by 30% or less draw odds for residents and had nothing to do with NR. I figured the elk allocation would work similar to deer in the regional...
The do “nothing” option combined with the previous recommendation of removing the 7250 cap and regionalized elk licenses….. wonder how that is going to turn out.
The roughly 300 LQ that they would be losing are the ones that are being converted to special general tags. Like you said, I haven’t seen any proposal numbers but I’d bet if the 7250 is removed that the total region general elk licenses would more than make up for the 300.
From the outside looking in it seems that the regionalized NR elk tag has far less to do with management or crowding and more to do with a way to circumvent the 7,250 cap.
Just a way to get more bull licenses for private land. There is already a shit ton of type 6 cow tags for those areas that they can make money through “trespass” fees as the document states. Problem is no one wants to pay the big $$ to shoot cows. I know I’m not telling you anything you aren’t...
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