Montana pronghorn draw

[brockel]

I did, and I remember going to the breaks with a buck tag in my pocket every year and usually with 2 or 3 surplus pronghorn doe tags. I'm no biologist, but I wonder how much that sort of liberal harvest from 20 years ago brought us to where we are today.

Nowadays in some of the okayer districts of SW MT, hunting pronghorn is kind of a once-every-five-years thing, which is really a bummer when I think about how little my kids will get to chase pronghorn in their lives - maybe the most fun hunting there is.

Antelope hunting is definitely one of the most fun family hunts there is. Good weather for young kids and action all day long

 

[rogerthat]

Enough of this anecdotal stuff, let’s talk science. So I used to take part in an annual hunt called the Busch lite challenge antelope hunt. It’s an archery hunt where you fill a cooler up with beer and take off driving and stalk every antelope buck encountered on public land. When we first started this hunt 25 years ago, you might get 1 or 2 beers drank all day. The hunting and amount of stalks just didn’t allow it. More recently I’m chit faced by 9 am. Sadly the hunt ended last year when I got my 6th dui. Real impacts to real lives. It’s serious stuff

 

[Gerald Martin]

They’re just in a down cycle. Everything is fine. We just need more opportunity to hunt a longer season….

 

[The Hedgehog]

Enough of this anecdotal stuff, let’s talk science. So I used to take part in an annual hunt called the Busch lite challenge antelope hunt. It’s an archery hunt where you fill a cooler up with beer and take off driving and stalk every antelope buck encountered on public land. When we first started this hunt 25 years ago, you might get 1 or 2 beers drank all day. The hunting and amount of stalks just didn’t allow it. More recently I’m chit faced by 9 am. Sadly the hunt ended last year when I got my 6th dui. Real impacts to real lives. It’s serious stuff

Wanna go hunting this year?

 

[Hem]

Wanna go hunting this year?

Looks like you are driving.

 

[SwaggyD]

Enough of this anecdotal stuff, let’s talk science. So I used to take part in an annual hunt called the Busch lite challenge antelope hunt. It’s an archery hunt where you fill a cooler up with beer and take off driving and stalk every antelope buck encountered on public land. When we first started this hunt 25 years ago, you might get 1 or 2 beers drank all day. The hunting and amount of stalks just didn’t allow it. More recently I’m chit faced by 9 am. Sadly the hunt ended last year when I got my 6th dui. Real impacts to real lives. It’s serious stuff

2 things….

1. You were drinking illegally.
2. 9 am is later than I would guessed the way you handle beer.

 

[TheTone]

Some of you must not have hunted antelope in MT before 2010.

What percent of those making the management decisions worked in Montana before 2010?

 

[8andcounting]

What percent of those making the management decisions worked in Montana before 2010?

It’s called data

 

[Flatbrimmer]

Enough of this anecdotal stuff, let’s talk science. So I used to take part in an annual hunt called the Busch lite challenge antelope hunt. It’s an archery hunt where you fill a cooler up with beer and take off driving and stalk every antelope buck encountered on public land. When we first started this hunt 25 years ago, you might get 1 or 2 beers drank all day. The hunting and amount of stalks just didn’t allow it. More recently I’m chit faced by 9 am. Sadly the hunt ended last year when I got my 6th dui. Real impacts to real lives. It’s serious stuff

Sounds like the mule deer problem you get so worked up about might need to take a back seat…. No pun intended.

How you get caught driving drunk 6 times and it ain’t a felony but if I get 3 misdemeanor assaults, it’s a felony? Boys have been fighting for as long as time…. That’s unreal man be glad you ain’t stuck with strictly bow and ML season.

 

[The Hedgehog]

Sounds like the mule deer problem you get so worked up about might need to take a back seat…. No pun intended.

How you get caught driving drunk 6 times and it ain’t a felony but if I get 3 misdemeanor assaults, it’s a felony? Boys have been fighting for as long as time…. That’s unreal man be glad you ain’t stuck with strictly bow and ML season.

@Flatbrimmer let me help - he’s kidding.

 

[Flatbrimmer]

@Flatbrimmer let me help - he’s kidding.

Thank goodness. I know a ton of em just like that. Grade-A storytelling there….had me going!

 

[8andcounting]

Maybe today

 

[ismith]

Maybe today

It’s cloudy, they can’t do it today.

 

[8andcounting]

I think it’s done . I’m showing antelope license under items held . Still says pending under the hunter search but I’m showing it under items held .

 

[Elktrack]

My bonus points are gone but nothing else shows that the draw is done yet on my end.

 

[HappyCamper]

I think it’s done . I’m showing antelope license under items held . Still says pending under the hunter search but I’m showing it under items held .

Same and no B tag i applied for showing.

 

[Deez Nutz]

Still says pending for me.

 

[MTGunner]

Also pending. MTG

 

[Mountain Man]

It shows pending, but also shows up under licenses held and the points are zeroed out.

 

[8andcounting]

Also pending. MTG

Same but look under items held and under bonus points . My points are gone and I’m showing that I hold a antelope license under items held