I'm have high confidence that the incidental take of mule deer by elk hunters happens a lot in R3 and way more than people realize in R7, which is also addressed in the proposal.
I would rather not complicate it and would be perfectly fine going back to traditional only (recurves/longbows no sights) in archery season and open sites only in rifle season. This coming from a guy who can shoot a compound bow and rifle a long ways. At some point we have to consider what is...
I think the technology thing gets thrown under the rug. Growing up (I'm not even old) 300+ yard shots were very rare because there was no rangefinders. When UT came out with their "open sight only rifles" proposal (it got shot down) I thought it was an awesome idea. We are going to have to...
The real answer to that is break up those regions more (seriously, R7 elk is managed as 2 units functionally....WTF). That way you can actually target those populations on private with licenses only valid on private and manage the public elk also. Everyone wins in that scenario
Got out this weekend in Western MT while everyone else argued on here and the 'Slide about the mule deer proposal. The woods were QUIET...managed to dust a cool tom this morning. Headed out for 4 days this weekend to hopefully fill a couple more tags.
Yes. Just because people watch other idiots butcher the use of statistics doesn't mean that proper application and modeling is wrong. If you asked a simple probability question 99.9% of people would get it wrong.