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I am not against this. Right now nearly all the hunting pressure is focused on the bucks with the top potential. There is opportunity in allowing some hunters to focus on the bucks with little potential to grow big.Also:
HD 270: Add a 270-51 buck permit. Quota 15 (range 1-50). Special opportunity. Antlers must be 3 points or fewer on one side (not including eye guard). Mandatory check required.
It’s all about the $$$$$ (said in George Carlin’s voice of course)Just read through the Commission agenda. You'd think we were drowning in deer and elk. Honestly, why even have seasons and bag limits?
Except the bulk of the 3x’s are 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year old bucks.I am not against this. Right now nearly all the hunting pressure is focused on the bucks with the top potential. There is opportunity in allowing some hunters to focus on the bucks with little potential to grow big.
It is my experience that better than 50% of those 2 1/2 year old three points will never get big even if they live to 6+ and the percentage only increases with every additional year of age that a buck remains a three point. In a unit like 270 where quality hunters often spend far more than a week looking for the best buck they can find these bucks may essentially be unhunted and die of old age and the three year old 170 buck has little chance of making it to four.Except the bulk of the 3x’s are 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year old bucks.
Point restrictions have never worked in MT, now if you could get a handle on the poaching and native american take,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
It is my experience that better than 50% of those 2 1/2 year old three points will never get big even if they live to 6+ and the percentage only increases with every additional year of age that a buck remains a three point. In a unit like 270 where quality hunters often spend far more than a week looking for the best buck they can find these bucks may essentially be unhunted and die of old age and the three year old 170 buck has little chance of making it to four.
Wisconsin tried that and it never worked. Unfortunately CWD is never going away.If there’s two things I wouldn’t underestimate it would be how serious CWD could be, and how many deer FWP will be willing to kill under the premise they’re doing something about it.