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A little humour for your day
- Gerald Martin
- Post #11,223
- Forum: Jokes
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The Rinella Impact
Wait, did you guys really delete that? I hadn’t even had a chance to write it down. Fine dining fifteen minutes from a good mule deer spot sounds awesome. You have to drive at least 25 minutes to get to McDonald’s from the Norris Road spot here in Bozeman.- Gerald Martin
- Post #122
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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The Rinella Impact
So, you’re telling me that’s why I didn’t draw the buffer tag this year? Come to think of it, I didn’t draw it the two years prior either.- Gerald Martin
- Post #118
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Our proposal doesn’t only shift the harvest of mule deer from Nov. to Oct. It also splits the total number of hunters between regions and whitetail or mule deer and their corresponding seasons. There will be some drop in pressure on either whitetail or mule deer. How people will make their...- Gerald Martin
- Post #1,000
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
What Art is saying is something that needs to be understood. The value of the early season private land cow hunt is not so much that every hunter is going to have access to the cows on private. It is a tool that allows FWP to address the legal mandate for keeping elk @objective without making...- Gerald Martin
- Post #975
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
One benefit to making the antlerless season private land only is political in nature. It could allow FWP to fulfill the legal mandate to manage for objective and potentially help eliminate the late shoulder season.- Gerald Martin
- Post #965
- Forum: Deer
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Well, it's not good. Not religious but prayers are welcomed.
May God grant you comfort and peace in your loss, Dave. Thank you for your example of service and courageous commitment to your wife.- Gerald Martin
- Post #435
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Simple. Everyone’s expectations are adjusted to understand that we can’t all hunt antelope every year. We accept the fact that the resource is not adequate to sustain the pressure of OTC hunting. It is not that way for deer and elk because of the baseline expectation that we can hunt deer...- Gerald Martin
- Post #945
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
At some level the whole R vs NR conflict is a bit of a red herring. At the most basic level the conflict is that the resource is experiencing more exploitation than it can sustain to produce a quality hunt and a healthy age structure, a reasonable buck/doe ratio and populations reflective...- Gerald Martin
- Post #937
- Forum: Deer
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Montana S/G/M results 2024
Will tents be shanked this fall?- Gerald Martin
- Post #34
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Thanks to those who commented in support. Unfortunately, work has me in a poor service area without predictable gaps to schedule in time for commenting.- Gerald Martin
- Post #891
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Make the late penalty charge $30 and I bet you would see better than 60% compliance. It won’t take years to compile data related to hunter success, where they are hunting, success, etc… Mandatory reporting is about getting accurate data on human aspects of wildlife management. FWP will...- Gerald Martin
- Post #844
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Yeah but Utah doesn’t have good enough hunting and management to come up with a five week OTC hunt that encompasses all phases of the rut. Results speak for themselves. Montana does it best without no stinking mandatory reporting. Just go check on Facebook if you don’t believe me.- Gerald Martin
- Post #835
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
No need for data. They have the results of the mule deer hunter survey.😎- Gerald Martin
- Post #833
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
That will be progress. We’ll really be winning when we completely extirpate deer in states with CWD and stop CWP for good. Then we can get back to our OTC rut hunts for mule deer. #Opportunity. 😎😏- Gerald Martin
- Post #821
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Yep. We’ve been managing for CWD for decades. We just didn’t know it. Doesn’t seem to have slowed the spread of CWD.- Gerald Martin
- Post #817
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Just for clarification, 200k people are going to be split between Oct. mule deer and Nov. whitetail across seven different regions. Not everyone is going to chase mule deer. As far as your opinion that an October cow season won’t shock them off of private, I am sure that there’s going to be...- Gerald Martin
- Post #801
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Did you download and read the actual proposal?- Gerald Martin
- Post #794
- Forum: Deer
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Montana General Season Structure Proposal
Too vulnerable with the proposed rifle antlerless on private in October? No I do not think they will be too vulnerable since most antlerless harvest is by unit specific B licenses. Regional biologists will still be setting the numbers of B licenses available based on where the herd is at in...- Gerald Martin
- Post #781
- Forum: Deer
