Gerald Martin
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As a Montana resident hunter I refuse to give up any of my hunting opportunity. It’s my Constitutional right to be able to hunt. (Sarcasm folks)
Twenty years ago I was only allowed to kill one elk per year and hunting season in all but a couple units only lasted from the first Saturday in September through Thanksgiving weekend. Now, I get to hunt elk somewhere in MT from August 15 through February 15. I can kill three elk per year. We have the same archery and general season structure plus nine days of muzzleloader season as the deer and elk are arriving on their winter range. Even though Montana has 200,000 hunters every year hunting for the approximately 25,000 bulls that are alive in Montana at the beginning of the season I urge our wildlife managers to continue this highly sustainable and responsible management strategy.
After all, we heard about that one unit that is 900% over objective and has a 130/100 bull to cow ratio so we definitely need to keep killing more elk. Even though that unit only has 350 elk in it and its objective number is 60 elk we can see by extrapolating that across the state that we have too many elk.
Twenty years ago I was only allowed to kill one elk per year and hunting season in all but a couple units only lasted from the first Saturday in September through Thanksgiving weekend. Now, I get to hunt elk somewhere in MT from August 15 through February 15. I can kill three elk per year. We have the same archery and general season structure plus nine days of muzzleloader season as the deer and elk are arriving on their winter range. Even though Montana has 200,000 hunters every year hunting for the approximately 25,000 bulls that are alive in Montana at the beginning of the season I urge our wildlife managers to continue this highly sustainable and responsible management strategy.
After all, we heard about that one unit that is 900% over objective and has a 130/100 bull to cow ratio so we definitely need to keep killing more elk. Even though that unit only has 350 elk in it and its objective number is 60 elk we can see by extrapolating that across the state that we have too many elk.