Extreme hunting pressure in region 7.

[mtmuley]

Parked in front of the cargo trailer it’s hard to argue with 28 mpg and heated seats

Yeah. I can see that. Good luck out there. Headed up to heavily pressured public land Montana tommorrow. mtmuley

 

[cgasner1]

Yeah. I can see that. Good luck out there. Headed up to heavily pressured public land Montana tommorrow. mtmuley

Taking the kid and going to move some cattle for a friend we won’t do much hunting and a debt is owed that must be paid tomorrow night.

 

[DFS]

Taking the kid and going to move some cattle for a friend we won’t do much hunting

Just probably at the appropriate times.

 

[Hunting Wife]

… a debt is owed that must be paid tomorrow night.

This sounds disturbingly ominous…

Or did you just let slip the secret to finding deer in R7?

 

[cgasner1]

This sounds disturbingly ominous…

Or did you just let slip the secret to finding deer in R7?

Christmas and the Halloween fundraiser I’m not allowed to miss. My wife lets me run hard but I will be home for Christmas and tomorrow I will be dressed as Wile E Coyote.

 

[sclancy27]

Christmas and the Halloween fundraiser I’m not allowed to miss. My wife lets me run hard but I will be home for Christmas and tomorrow I will be dressed as Wile E Coyote.

You'd make a fantastic Fred Flintstone

 

[cgasner1]

You'd make a fantastic Fred Flintstone

Can’t find it but I felt like I killed cousin eddy last year

 

[antlerradar]

Christmas and the Halloween fundraiser I’m not allowed to miss. My wife lets me run hard but I will be home for Christmas and tomorrow I will be dressed as Wile E Coyote.

Pictures or it didn't happen!

 

[Frequently Banned Troll]

If you ride the antelope at region 7 headquarters, I will buy you a Busch light at the Bison bar.

If I wear my lucky Matzingar t shirt can I pick an upgraded drink?

 

[cgasner1]

Probably shouldn’t wear these bad boys into 7

 

[Gerald Martin]

View attachment 390097Probably shouldn’t wear these bad boys into 7

I saw a furry walking her dog today in full cat outfit. Come to Bozeman. You’ll fit right in…

 

[cgasner1]

I saw a furry walking her dog today in full cat outfit. Come to Bozeman. You’ll fit right in…

I’ll show you were the rag horns are on Sunday if you wear the ears

 

[INMT]

I had to look that one up. Crazy. They’d need more hobbies.

 

[Gerald Martin]

I’m going to be taken for a walk by a cat???

I sure hope we’re not going to the train station…

 

[cgasner1]

Pictures or it didn't happen!

 

[cgasner1]

Kid put some miles on with me this weekend

 

[Frequently Banned Troll]

How's this for a small data point from a weekend trip to R7 with friends. Showed up on Friday at noon and noticed camps set up on a popular (moreso over the last 2 decades) FS road. Before turning down road I guessed we'd see a half dozen camps before where we stopped. We saw only 5, but maybe twice that number of vehicles driving/parked. We drove several miles down to the end and set up a tent. We took note of the license plates (just the ones close enough to identify) on the drive in, then the drive out to another hunting location on Sunday in that same proximity of the forest. Most of the plate were from Oregon with 6 differnet vehicles. MT might have been 2nd, but we counted 3 Minnesota vehicles and others from Washington, Texas, Kansas, Wisconsen, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Georgia, and Alabama. That's a quarter of all the states on one small part of the R7 forest in a couple days, and only the ones we saw. It's pretty mindblowing how anybody from Idaho or Wyoming would decide to hunt MT vs their home state, or all the way across the country. I really enjoyed the last evening we sat and glassed a roadless piece of forest to have some guys in a side by side cross country driving across the forest to volley some bullets from a half mile at a tiny mule deer buck.

Don't know there's any way to quantify hunters by a couple dozen license plates in one small area, but right there, I'd say non-residents outnumbered residents 5 to 1.

 

[Hem]

How's this for a small data point from a weekend trip to R7 with friends. Showed up on Friday at noon and noticed camps set up on a popular (moreso over the last 2 decades) FS road. Before turning down road I guessed we'd see a half dozen camps before where we stopped. We saw only 5, but maybe twice that number of vehicles driving/parked. We drove several miles down to the end and set up a tent. We took note of the license plates (just the ones close enough to identify) on the drive in, then the drive out to another hunting location on Sunday in that same proximity of the forest. Most of the plate were from Oregon with 6 differnet vehicles. MT might have been 2nd, but we counted 3 Minnesota vehicles and others from Washington, Texas, Kansas, Wisconsen, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, Georgia, and Alabama. That's a quarter of all the states on one small part of the R7 forest in a couple days, and only the ones we saw. It's pretty mindblowing how anybody from Idaho or Wyoming would decide to hunt MT vs their home state, or all the way across the country. I really enjoyed the last evening we sat and glassed a roadless piece of forest to have some guys in a side by side cross country driving across the forest to volley some bullets from a half mile at a tiny mule deer buck.

Don't know there's any way to quantify hunters by a couple dozen license plates in one small area, but right there, I'd say non-residents outnumbered residents 5 to 1.

Sounds like an effing chitshow.

 

[DFS]

In a different thread I said I always wanted a tag in my pocket but it’s kind of nice not having one. Had to go shoot a moo cow on Saturday and things won’t relent, nonresidents and residents at every piece of public or accessible land. Very disappointed there was nothing in the season settings that addressed pressure for our deer.

 

[Frequently Banned Troll]

In a different thread I said I always wanted a tag in my pocket but it’s kind of nice not having one. Had to go shoot a moo cow on Saturday and things won’t relent, nonresidents and residents at every piece of public or accessible land. Very disappointed there was nothing in the season settings that addressed pressure for our deer.

If it makes you feel any better - we didn’t harm any.