Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

[brockel]

Mostly, yes. It's difficult for most of us to get permission slips to cross the state line without the possibility of bringing something home even if it's just the ingredients for tag soup, which I prefer over dink steaks or dink stew or even dinky moore chili with or without beans.

So it’s just the wives that think killing something is the main thing and not the hunters? Got it

 

[Irrelevant]

Do those places require a tag in your pocket to check out?

Hunt doesn't equate to check out
Hunt also doesn't equate to kill

 

[ShootsManyBullets]

So it’s just the wives that think killing something is the main thing and not the hunters? Got it

Mine just thinks I suck at hunting. She might be right

 

[Irrelevant]

Mine just thinks I suck at hunting. She might be right

Name checks out

 

[cgasner1]

You’re not going to believe this story but I swear it’s true. Youngest and I headed into town a little while ago to the grocery store. Pickup pulls up and two guys get out decked out in orange. Asked them if they were having any luck and they said no. Asked them if they had seen anything and they said “not close enough to the road”. I just chuckled. Granted it is a cold and windy day. As I was leaving the parking lot I looked over at their pickup to see the plates and I shit you not Washington plates. Guess they won’t get counted as hunter days

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Jesus...

Back when I was a kid all you needed was a 1950 Chevy dually with a platform in the bed, a couple of folding chairs, and wood racks. Same same.

 

[brockel]

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[El Jason]

I love the not close enough to the road stuff. You should see where my son in law and I doubled on two cow elk in the Breaks this week. mtmuley

I’m happy that some folks think like this. It cuts down on competition.

 

[El Jason]

It must be miserable living in Montana from reading some of the posts in this thread.

 

[Nick87]

Can’t get on Facebook. Tried selling a scope on Facebook September 2025 and they gave me the ban hammer August 2026 for it

Best thing that ever happened to ya.

 

[Forkyfinder]

From what I can gather from the FWP Executive Report, it appears to be roughly 4-to-1 R/NR.

This might be beyond your thinking - but that doesnt mean thats what are people in the field.

There isnt a way to know it at the time being. But im grateful im not so duped that i think "hunter days" is good enough to add "per elk" and make a new unit, that makes even less sense than the flawed first one. Might even round up to being a useful idiot with the right lobbyist thinking like that. It sure doesnt mean anything - except that someone should be embarassed thinking it means anything.

Ha - rich that some people are commenting "it must suck to live here" - odd that their isnt any threads on how great wisconsin/washington were and how anyone wants it to be better. Huh. Almost like no one cares. Imagine they did though - you suppose itd be filled with people from Montana telling them how to manage it?

I hope that people who came up with that are far away from any technical work that anyone depends on - laughably incompetent and statistically illiterate.

 

[cgasner1]

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It’s just 3-4 different ways to increase your odds

 

[brockel]

Best thing that ever happened to ya.

Idk that Facebook market place was good for some deals

 

[brockel]

It must be miserable living in Montana from reading some of the posts in this thread.

Nah it’s good. It could just be a lot better.

I’ve tried moving to another state. Wife isn’t on board yet

 

[El Jason]

Ha - rich that some people are commenting "it must suck to live here" - odd that their isnt any threads on how great wisconsin/washington were and how anyone wants it to be better. Huh. Almost like no one cares. Imagine they did though - you suppose itd be filled with people from Montana telling them how to manage it?

Your assumptions betray your ignorance and arrogance. I must have missed the rules that prohibit folks outside of Montana from commenting.

Maybe you could start your own board, where only Montana residents could comment on Montana mule deer.

 

[El Jason]

Nah it’s good.

You sure wouldn’t know it from reading some of this stuff.

 

[brockel]

You sure wouldn’t know it from reading some of this stuff.

Probably because we know what it could be. Always wanting to improve something I don’t think is a bad thing. “Just be happy you’re not like so and so state” I think is a bad thing.

 

[huntin24/7]

If you sift through some of the non sense on this forum, there are actually a lot of good points. I appreciate the reminders to remember to enjoy what we have. When I have a healthy balance of enjoying the opportunities we still have available while acknowledging how much worse things have gotten over the last decade+ and pushing for change to improve things, I get the most peace from a hunter/conservationist standpoint. Not too high, not too low.

 

[DFS]

It must be miserable living in Montana from reading some of the posts in this thread.

The month of November is rough if you like wildlife. Other than that it’s pretty good. Nothing a little common sense couldn’t fix in short time, that is probably the most frustrating aspect of the mule deer rut slaughter. Not sure it warrants moving just because your game agency hates mule deer.

 

[Nick87]

Idk that Facebook market place was good for some deals

Agree I wish you could just have a marketplace app.