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    Montana HB 907

    You've pretty much ignored my main point which is that a key detail of HB 635 is being strategically omitted to argue in favor of HB 907. Whether HB 907 is a better bill is a different matter entirely. My main point is that I'd appreciate (particularly as a BHA member) to feel like I'm not being...
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    Montana HB 907

    Isn't the fact that the licenses obtained via HB 635 are only valid on the tag holder's private land a fairly significant detail that should be noted (i.e. there are strings attached)? As a BHA member and Montana NR DIY hunter undecided on the matter it'd be nice to be provided the full picture...
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    Tribal Walleye Spearing

    At least with the walleyes the debate is between two groups of people both mainly interested in eating them. The musky spearing is a bit more interesting as nearly all serious musky fishermen practice catch and release for a fish that can take upwards of 20 years to reach 50 inches and have been...
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    Wakesurfing article - Good to see some headway on this

    It's not been finalized but in the link below it appears the idea is to declare a home lake for each calendar year. A decal will be used to indicate your home lake. Also in the same link are lake maps that highlight the areas where wakesurfing is permitted. Vermont's rules do make it...
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    Poaching, Partnerships, and Profits

    The title of the video is bad enough, since it insinuates testing a weapon on a live animal for entertainment when there are more effective calibers that could be used. Amazing how many people will defend and support a guy with multiple documented hunting violations that is clearly a net...
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    Wakesurfing article - Good to see some headway on this

    It's much more difficult than something like a livewell which is why a home lake rule is being pushed along with professional decontamination when moving between lakes. I'd suspect most wake boats never leave their home lake so it should not be a particularly controversial measure...
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    Wakesurfing article - Good to see some headway on this

    Vermont is much stricter than that now. 500 feet from shore, at least 20 feet deep, and a minimum of 50 contiguous acres in a lake that satisfies these requirements. They are also working on implementing a home lake rule to reduce the spread of invasive species. I’d imagine other states will...
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    Is there any reason other than simplicity to not just leave the old archery elk season dates as they are currently? I don't personally care or have much say as a NR but it seems like keeping the current archery season dates would appease those concerned about lost elk opportunity and might...
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    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    Montana has been applying some degree of culling to top end deer longer than the attached study but it would be my suspicion that a combination of few total mature deer and the high-grading of high potential deer before they reach maturity is a bigger problem than the genetic pool of the herd...
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    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    Below is the linked study correlating antler size with the health of the mother. I think this is undoubtedly a major, if not the main, contributor to to the peak antler size a deer achieves. However, I'd still suspect there is some correlation between a buck's antler size and offspring viability...
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    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    There have been studies that show, all else equal, does tend to choose bucks with larger antlers to breed with when given the choice. Considering this, I don't think it's unreasonable to infer that this choice offers benefits to offspring. If choosing bucks with larger antlers did not offer...
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    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    I was just using that as an example of two states (particularly N MO and S IA) that share a border with the only meaningful difference being season timing. WY and ND are probably the best bet for a direct mule deer comparison to MT, with both states having much better quality than Montana in...
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    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    Although not the same species, you can see significant quality differences between Northern Missouri and Southern Iowa whitetails that most hunters ascribe to the fact that Missouri has a 2 week rifle season right in the middle of November while Iowa has no gun season in November. Iowa does have...
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    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    I think you are correct about choose your weapon pushing more hunters to only rifle hunt although I'm not sure that is inherently a bad thing if it's outweighed by more elk on public land at the start of rifle season. If more elk are on public land and theoretically more evenly distributed due...
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    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    The nature of western hunting in roaded areas seems unconducive to a "no show" policy. Someone could easily intend to hunt a property and book it but then adjust accordingly to what they see when they show up to area in person. If you're pronghorn hunting and can glass most of a BMA property...
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    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    All they need to do is look at how Missouri uses their hunting app. Your tags and licenses are on the app, you notch your tag upon harvest, and then have until that night to fill out a "telecheck" (legacy name from when calling in was the only option), which includes county of harvest, private...
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    Are hunter numbers down?

    I agree with many of the above thoughts. I had hunting licenses in multiple states I did not hunt due to time constraints just because you need to buy them ahead of time and the unpredictable nature of draws. Another problem with the data in this form is that it does not consider how many days...
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    Bitterroot bass

    I agree. Smallmouth bass are native to the Mississippi River basin and Great Lakes basin. Consequently, they are also native to the lower Missouri River (which makes sense since it flows into the Mississippi River) so you'd think in theory they could naturally migrate up the Missouri River and...
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    Matt Rinella knocking it outta the park

    Maybe it's semantics but I'm not really sure I agree that increasing access is synonymous with creating a bigger pie unless you're opening up land that's not currently being hunted, which I think is probably a minority of "inaccessible land" that's talked about. In cases where you increase...
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    Matt Rinella gives a talk at Pope and Young

    I partly agree with this but I think it also depends on the type of content. For example, someone might watch a video on how to apply in x, y, or z state because it's faster than reading through the state-produced information but could still prefer that video not exist as they'd be more than...

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