Deer question montana

[Muley_Stalker]

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I'm going full on ultral light deer skin shirts and pants with a coon skin cap December 1 when the smoke pole adventure begins and I know right where I'm gonna be sitting.

Honest warden I didn't mean to shoot him. He looked just like a deer.

 

[Muley_Stalker]

If you don't want to lose the OTC tags. Put a cap on them.

You can't leave it the same and expect it's going change anything.

 

[brockel]

I’d keep the whitetail season as is so people can keep their 3 months of hunting but the mule deer season needs some adjusting

 

[Deleted member 28227]

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I'm going full on ultral light deer skin shirts and pants with a coon skin cap December 1 when the smoke pole adventure begins and I know right where I'm gonna be sitting.

I can’t wait for the write up, please review @Nameless Range post from a few years back correct tone.

 

[EYJONAS!]

I can’t wait for the write up, please review @Nameless Range post from a few years back correct tone.

I'm gonna start it off with a clip from guy on a buffalo. It might be a full feature deal after we're done.

 

[OpenCountry]

It would be interesting to see MT go to a unit draw with 100% draw odds for a couple years just to see the data of how many hunters are pounding certain units. Then based off that data maybe, just maybe, we could see some change from the 1950s.

 

[mtmiller]

I live in a " trophy" area too. We need more of them. mtmuley

Trophy = Managed

I agree.

 

[huntin24/7]

I get a kick out of how every time this topic comes up, there are guys chiming in about how those who want more LE units or shorter seasons, or rifle seasons not coinciding with the rut are “selfish” because we just want big deer for ourselves. For me personally, selfish would be wanting it to stay the same. It’s a lot easier to find my wife and I a respectable buck with our schedules with a 5 week rut season, it id rather have it be more difficult and maybe grow a few older animals too. I’ve said before that we can have our cake and eat it too to some degree. A slightly shorter season that encompasses much less of the rut gives anyone willing to put forth a little effort plenty of opportunity to kill a buck, but it also lets more bucks mature. Sounds like a win win.

 

[EYJONAS!]

You could get so creative with tags and draws anyone bitching about "opportunity" wouldn't have anything to say.

I still vote for a 900 archery deer tag begin August 15 end September 30 general rifle begin Oct 1 and end 15.

 

[Nick87]

I just want to shoot some of your guys' whitetails.

 

[brockel]

I just want to shoot some of your guys' whitetails.

Population is expanding like spurge in eastern Montana. Where I grew up there was 3 creeks that came together and became one. I spent so much time up and down those creeks. Could tell you every nook and cranny in them. In 20+ years I’d never seen a whitetail in them. Now 10 years later you see quite a few of them.

We bought the pasture where we keep our horses 5 or so years ago. Back then you might see 10 Whitetails out in the stubble when winter comes along. This last winter same fields I counted over 150 on one of them. Won’t be long and blue tongue will hit them and knock them back some

 

[EYJONAS!]

I just want to shoot some of your guys' whitetails.

Why they suck to your not invited

 

[Nick87]

Why they suck to your not invited

Fine I guess I'll go hunt with my buddy in Ontario

 

[EYJONAS!]

Fine I guess I'll go hunt with my buddy in Ontario

Border is closed

 

[Nick87]

Border is closed

Ain't no wall up there.

 

[EYJONAS!]

Ain't no wall up there.

Ontario sucks. Saskatchewan needs to broaden their horizons.

 

[Insane1]

Folks think things are crowded now, imagine if everyone hunted the same 2 weeks....

 

[antlerradar]

Folks think things are crowded now, imagine if everyone hunted the same 2 weeks....

You have a point, but what I have seen lately is that the crowded time is the two weeks centered on Nov 15. A four week Oct. season might spread hunting pressure out more than one that contains peak rut.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Folks think things are crowded now, imagine if everyone hunted the same 2 weeks....

It wouldn't be crowded if they limited the number of permits.

 

[mtmuley]

It wouldn't be crowded if they limited the number of permits.

That depends also. I usually draw a unit with unlimited permits. I never see a soul off the road or trail. But you are right. Limiting mule deer hunting in some areas is a good plan. mtmuley