Perhaps a different way to say this is that NR's choose to hunt MD at significantly higher rates than residents.
Most of those NR's don't have mule deer in their states, or they are highly restrictive. Montanans value hunting mule deer, but the majority of MT hunters select whitetail. No...
Don,
I may get shot for this, but I'd take a week in the UP chasing pats over a week anywhere chasing roosters.
OnX layers are key for finding good habitat. Michigan's hunt planner is another must have resource to find the kind of covers you are wanting.
As these guys have said, the roads...
There's a ton of skilled artists & craftsmen & women on here. A "Handmade HT raffle" featuring our very own would be awesome, and save me a ton of clay & effort.
Allowing the state to select one service provider rather than go through the procurement process would cause the state administration division to to enact monopolistic tendencies and as of 2024, Montana statute still only allows for 1 monopoly to exist (Northwestern Energy).
If you compare the cost of a deer & elk license that comes with your base hunting license, fishing, upland, conservation license and sometimes a bear or wolf license, along with the kind of season length that MT offers, MT remains a top tier draw for NRs because of the ease of hunting, even if...
I doubt the votes exist to get this passed. Also, NR prices are already tied to the CPI.
2027 sounds like it will be a revenue discussion based on the agency's budget outlook, so if that's your play, I'd wait until '27 for it when the legislators will be thinking about this rather than 25...
First and foremost, positive intent on your part is assumed by me. I'm simply laying out the arguments that would be brought for or against a position.
In any hunting situation, you have to assess the odds of success versus the expending of energy in a futile effort. For R6 & 7, that means...
I mean, I'm on that island as well. Losing the outfitter set-aside was a big part of the increase of pressure on public lands, regardless of the ethical issues.
Resident hunters would be less than enthusiastic about private land versus public land systems designed to reward one class over...
That's solid, Art.
the B10 is usually oversubscribed (meaning more people put in for it than there are available licenses). Oversubscription leads to a draw. Undersubscription means no draw is needed, and the leftovers go on sale. During the great recession, those numbers fluctuated until...
Over the course of the last 10 years, the increase in resident hunter pressure equals 18,000 more NR hunters.
NR antlerless deer license drove a lot of those numbers along with reselling the orphaned deer tags. The antlerless issue has been taken care of. Let's look at 2024-2026 data before...