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Montana season structure proposal 2.0

It’s been studied for mule deer. I believe in utah or Wyoming. Bumps up buck to doe for about a year than trends back where you started. I will see if I can dig up the studies.

Edit: jeff short studied this

That was a great podcast episode about all sorts of seasons and social aspects.
 
That was a great podcast episode about all sorts of seasons and social aspects.
The whole series of podcast that Robby did with biologists from Idaho, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado should be mandatory listening for every hunter before they comment on or push for change to season structures. A lot of old myths and bad ideas are discussed and debunked in those podcasts.

Here is some more reading on Antler-point-restrictions for anyone interested:
 
The whole series of podcast that Robby did with biologists from Idaho, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado should be mandatory listening for every hunter before they comment on or push for change to season structures. A lot of old myths and bad ideas are discussed and debunked in those podcasts.

Here is some more reading on Antler-point-restrictions for anyone interested:
I totally agree but also always have your eyes wide open. Robbie is a big buck hunter that likes to hunt so he isn’t agenda-less. I listen to every podcast with scientists and have learned a lot
 
Buck harvest has little to no appreciable effect on population, doe harvest does that. Maybe you mean buck to doe ratio? Or more bucks in general?
I totally agree about the doe harvest. FWP allowed the does to get absolutely slaughtered for years, 6 otc md B tags in addition to an A tag definitely didn’t help sustain numbers, throw in a couple of nasty winters into the mix and you have a visually noticeable numbers decline in just a couple seasons. All I was saying is that we are finally discouraging excessive doe harvest, what would it hurt to let the younger bucks have a chance at a couple years of helping them does put fawns on the ground.
 
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