R7 mule b tags

[8andcounting]

As of few minutes ago I saw over 8,400 b tags still available. Region 7 is big but that’s a lot of mule deer does that’ll get killed . Is the herd numbers better than they have been or ? Seems ridiculously high . Seen on Facebook there’s people bragging how they got up today to buy their 7 b tags and blah blah . For you SE Montana residents, how are deer numbers looking ?

 

[The Hedgehog]

Anybody buying one of those should be kicked squarely in the groin.

 

[8andcounting]

I haven’t been to r7 in few years but last time I was it looked to me like there shouldn’t be any doe’s shot , atleast where I was at I’m sure on private there’s plenty but maybe need to make them private only or ?

 

[BuzzH]

Its Montana...nobody cares, not even the FWP.

Buy your handful of doe tags and fill that freezer with top quality public land mule deer. The FWP says its OK, so it must be.

 

[Schaaf]

Anybody buying one of those should be kicked squarely in the groin.

I did buy 7 last year to throw in the garbage.

 

[The Hedgehog]

I did buy 7 last year to throw in the garbage.

Did you really buy 7? WTF.

Not selling any might send a better message to FWP. They don't need to be funded that way.

 

[300stw]

must be few hundred thousand mule deer in 7 to warrant that many more doe tags,,,, maybe they have a new math program,, doesn't matter what the answer is as long as you write down your work,,, 6th grade all over again

 

[300stw]

I bet they meant 84 tags but there was a GLITCH in the computer system,,,,,

 

[Schaaf]

Did you really buy 7? WTF.

Not selling any might send a better message to FWP. They don't need to be funded that way.

Possibly, but at the rate they were selling they were on the verge of selling out.

 

[timmy]

Rut hunt and 7 mule deer doe tags brings the finest of hunters to the area. I can’t wait for November!! To answer the question deer numbers are way down but that’s just my opinion. Some private ranches have plenty of deer but overall numbers are down.

 

[NDGuy]

As of few minutes ago I saw over 8,400 b tags still available. Region 7 is big but that’s a lot of mule deer does that’ll get killed . Is the herd numbers better than they have been or ? Seems ridiculously high . Seen on Facebook there’s people bragging how they got up today to buy their 7 b tags and blah blah . For you SE Montana residents, how are deer numbers looking ?

Where are you seeing that amount of B tags? None show up when I download the tag listing except whitetail tags.

 

[8andcounting]

Where are you seeing that amount of B tags? None show up when I download the tag listing except whitetail tags.

007-03

https://myfwp.mt.gov/getRepositoryFile?objectID=92560

 

[NDGuy]

007-03

https://myfwp.mt.gov/getRepositoryFile?objectID=92560

I did not realize that was the entirety of region 7 I thought that was unit 7. That is INSANE. What is the justification for that many? Wipe everything out?

 

[8andcounting]

I did not realize that was the entirety of region 7 I thought that was unit 7. That is INSANE. What is the justification for that many? Wipe everything out?

Yup . Kill em all

 

[Edwin]

Region 7 is 29,799 square miles. 8,500 B tags would equate to the taking of 1 deer out of every 3.5 sq miles. Take it for what it is, good bad or otherwise. I could see this being of concern with areas with high percentages of public land.

 

[onpoint]

Buzz sends incessant and largely futile laments out to the four winds about "it" being MFWP's fault. He would be correct.
Greenhorn says hunters buying one of those tags should take a kick to the crotch - suggesting the public has a major set of dirty hands in this one. He might be correct.
Schaaf say that the public buys the shit out of 'em. He is correct. And that public must be correct, as they are just purchasing what's available to them - right??
Where does the buck (or lack thereof - a quality one, that is..... poor humor attempt) stop? Where and how does an actual solution come from/get implemented, given the fact a lotta' hunters will kill gladly the last piece of meat on four legs, or wings (many Montana's upland bird populations are likely in poor shape this year -a whole different but relevant topic)???
Everybody's correct, whole bunch of fingers pointing at different parties to blame. And Montanans keep voting for a majority of legislators who are of no help whatsoever - in fact the opposite.
Interesting conundrum.

I always seem to come back to "government for the people, BY THE PEOPLE".............................................................

 

[Brian in Montana]

That's a lot of B tags. I would think the bulk of them will be shot on private land, but I've hunted out there the past few years and it is amazing the amount of people just driving around trying to shoot stuff from the road.

 

[JLS]

I always seem to come back to "government for the people, BY THE PEOPLE"

…..with the last three words being critical.

 

[JLS]

I would think the bulk of them will be shot on private land

But the bulk aren't shot on private land because either 1) folks are to freaking lazy to ask, or 2) people don't let them hunt, so they dump the first doe they see on public land.

 

[thusby]

That really doesn't seem like that many tags to me for an area that large. Of course I'm from Wisconsin where we give out unlimited doe tags in half the state and 200,000 doe tags in the other half.