I haven’t been back to the area since, but I can believe that after seeing the article that was posted on here a few weeks back about the CWD prevalence in that area. I saw one legitimately nice buck that I would have shot on my hunt.
I had a rifle permit in the Missouri Breaks in 2008. It had dumped snow the week leading up to the opener and it had the elk bunched up in big herds. The day before the season opened we were watching a herd of about 200 head with one or two shooters. All of a sudden the elk started to get on...
I'm sure I'm in the minority on this, but I've never understood wanting to use a less effective or more primitive weapon when hunting with dogs. I'm a bow hunter, but I don't really have a desire to shoot a lion or bear out of a tree with a bow. If a bow was all that was available to me, then...
Don’t worry, the commission voted to increase the quota range this year. Im sure next year they will issue enough permits so that no resident has to be disappointed that they didn’t draw.
I'm no biologist, but it seems like reducing the overall number of sows in the population would be just as much of a factor in population decline as percent sow harvest. Here in region 4, our spring harvest has increased about 45% over the long term average starting in 2021. That number would...
I’d be willing to bet that a lot of the people from Western MT that like to hunt mule deer in R6 and R7 also like to hunt whitetails close to home on the western side of the state.
If creating trophy districts was the goal, the proposal would have been much more drastic than a shift of season dates and a one week reduction to the season length.