I’m going to go pick up my cameras sometime this week, they’ve been up since August, I’m hoping I remembered to turn them on and have some good pictures to share
1. Decent little buck that looks young
2. 4x4 with eye guards
3. No
4. Have close to the same on wall, isn’t very exciting, have no desire to shoot another one in MT unless it’s 180 +. Likely won’t ever happen
Alternatively there were 10,192 mule deer does killed between 2018-2019 in region 7. IF the tags were reduced by 90% in 2020, shouldn’t we be seeing closer to 1,000 deer between 21-22? 10% of 10,000? I understand it doesn’t quite work like that but something seems a little off…
Based on FWP‘s “harvest report,” 4,482 mule deer does were killed from 2021-2022. To me that seems like a shit load of deer for one region and reducing that to zero would absolutely have a positive effect on the population, but I’m not a biologist
I had one that was completely rank and not edible. The rest have been very good. A couple small bucks from an alfalfa field might have been the best wild game steaks I‘ve ever had. Sample size is roughly a dozen
Just read through all the public comments that were previously submitted. I see 3 comments (out of approximately 150- just a guess, non-scientific counting) opposing the changes to 410/417/426 stating their outfitting business in 417 will go tits up if they change it to LE deer tags. GMAFB.