Montana 2026 Elk Proposal

[YukonGold]

Haven’t read this whole thing and don’t overly care much one way or another if this passes or not. Cows are easy enough to kill on public land in MT if you really want one.

Question…..and apologies if this has been answered. Say you drew a Gardiner cow tag. Shoot a bull on public in archery. Now you can’t use that 2nd cow tag in November?

Seems like this is a statewide blanket proposal if that’s the case. Some units you are hunting the same elk whether it’s public or private.

The idea is that that cow tag becomes an antlerless permit which only validates your general license. No more B-tag at all. One elk, unless you also get a PRIVATE LAND ONLY B-tag, which all B-tags would become. So yeah, in your scenario, if you were allowed to fill your general with a BTB during archery instead, that's your general license filled and you're done.

 

[Drake4]

Got it thanks.
Blanketing the whole state with that same rational seems really silly.