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  1. Gerald Martin

    Montana 2025 draws

    I’ve been blessed with more MSG luck than most ever will be so I’m not feeling too bad about it.
  2. Gerald Martin

    Montana 2025 draws

    The truth that for the first time in nearly twenty years I literally forgot to apply. Face palm. Oh well, my son has a great elk tag that we can dedicate this fall to. No distractions. Unless I win the Supertag….😃
  3. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    Ooh!!! A pink elephant! Let’s make a hunting season for it! 😁
  4. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    Sad state of affairs when the “opportunity” mentality is so ingrained in hunters that a legislator who is a hunter and a taxidermist introduces legislation to block efforts to improve the resource and help maintain sustainable opportunity. The biggest barrier to better management in MT is...
  5. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    Without trying to spot burn Buzz’s reference hunting area, it has actually burned multiple times in a large area. It takes a long time to habitat your way out of a situation where the overall predation overwhelms recruitment. Even longer if the overwhelm of predation doesn’t diminish while...
  6. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    OTC for R and 10% for NR or total numbers of R from a year plus 10% to be allocated by lottery draw between R and NR? Where do all the rest of the NR go if it’s limited to plus 10% of R? Is this statewide or only in the special parts?
  7. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    What constitutes generous LE?
  8. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    I don’t know how AI got the 61/100 number. This is from a MT FWP Facebook post on their website.
  9. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    The MT Outdoors article quoted it as 57/100 adults as a spring survey. The 61/100 was from Googles AI search.
  10. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    I actually agree that your numbers are more likely to be realistic . I got the 61/100 fawns per doe number from the 2024 FWP report. I just assumed it was the spring survey?🤷‍♂️ If it was a post season winter survey it would make the potential for a 4.5 median age even more likely since each...
  11. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    There’s no breakdown for age in the FWP harvest reports, only less than 4 points, 4 or more points. There’s absolutely nothing scientific with my attribution of most 4 1/2 year old bucks having at least one beam with four or more antlers. It is my opinion that in an average population of...
  12. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    I am being pretty generous with my numbers aren’t I? 😀 My numbers would be a best case scenario in favor of what it would take for that4 1/2 year old median to be true. Kind of like 80% of Montana hunters approving of how FWP manages mule deer….😏
  13. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    Post season survey for Region 7 in 2024 showed 61/100 fawns per does. Those would be the .5 year old cohort. Figure a 50/50 ratio for 31 bucks to be added to the buck population and enter into the hunting season as 1 1/2 year olds. Realistically those 1 1/2 year old bucks are not going to be...
  14. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    I thought I had the flights surveys from this spring from 7 saved. Apparently, not. Going from memory there was a spread from 10% on the low end of the one trend survey area and up to 20% on another area. Someone else who has the count saved can probably provide the actual numbers...
  15. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    I’m no scientist but thinking about the median age of bucks in 7 being 4.5 and comparing them to spring counts of 10/100 bucks in some survey areas and @ 20/100 in the highest area doesn’t add up to me. If 50% of fawns are bucks and 30% of the antlerless count is fawns then there should be...
  16. Gerald Martin

    Wolves need managed!

    We shoot wolves so we do have that going for us….
  17. Gerald Martin

    Wolves need managed!

    Being a wolf and doing wolf things.
  18. Gerald Martin

    How many still tip waiters and waitresses at 20% or more?

    My daughter works as a waitress with a base pay of $2.30. So yeah, it’s pretty necessary.
  19. Gerald Martin

    General meme thread - NSFW -

  20. Gerald Martin

    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    I finally got a chance to listen to the podcast yesterday. A couple of thoughts from the listen… 1. Brian used average age/ median interchangeably and linked the 4.5 average/median age and 60% 4 point or better to the CWD testing program. 2. He said he was going from memory when quoting from...

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