MT opener

[Dinkshooter]

I hunted AZ elk this year. I've received 4 harvest survey request. Phone, Online, mail and even the game warden calling me. Such a taxing game management strategy. Sigh.

I hunted NM coues last year and AK Brown bears. Mandatory harvest reporting by a deadline or you're out of the draws. Sigh

Went to a CPW meeting this summer about game management and they told me they could never pull off mandatory harvest reporting........................Sigh

I do love how I'm taking a MT centric post, on a MT centric website and making it about Colorado.

Look at me, Look at me!

 

[TOGIE]

But the stats are the stats, and while admittedly questionable aren’t meaningless. Statistical methods are employed that give a large scale degree of confidence regardless.

2022 1st rifle: 5 days; 27,072 hunters; 25% success; 96,866 recreation days resulting in 3.6 days per hunter.

How many days per hunter for what kind of success in Montana? Therein lies the damning result…

 

[TheTone]

I hunted AZ elk this year. I've received 4 harvest survey request. Phone, Online, mail and even the game warden calling me. Such a taxing game management strategy. Sigh.

And…?

 

[Dinkshooter]

I value time in the woods, over blasting a cow or raghorn in 3.6 days.

 

[Dinkshooter]

And…?

I replied to 3 of them.

 

[Flatbrimmer]

27,000 elk hunters with rifles while they’re bugling and only 25%!? I’d think we’d beat it but we’re structured different. Seems an uneven argument. Seems even more so that folks sitting out the opener are pissy pants and the ones that did go out aren’t exactly crying about it

 

[TOGIE]

27,000 elk hunters with rifles while they’re bugling and only 25%!? I’d think we’d beat it but we’re structured different. Seems an uneven argument. Seems even more so that folks sitting out the opener are pissy pants and the ones that did go out aren’t exactly crying about it

The idea is to even it out by looking at days per hunter.

6 weeks for 25% or 5 days to get 25%? One indicates higher quality.

But I’m not sitting here claiming mega high quality down here lol

 

[Dinkshooter]

As chitty as both states elk management policies are, I still have to think Montana has a better total inch of bone score over Colorado. And I'm 0 for 3 in Montana.

 

[cgasner1]

Can you guys move this over to the Montana mountain goat at wits end thread like a normal person and leave this for mt opener

 

[2ski]

I went for a drove this evening. Saw 3 cow elk on the road I was on as it went through private. But I saw something so I'm happy.

 

[SwaggyD]

I sat it out again. Have several years in a row now. I actually bought a curling iron at target today for my wife while she took the kids with a family friend to a pumpkin patch. No regrets. I’ll start Monday. Best of luck!!

 

[BAKPAKR]

Anyone have success yet on Norris Road?

 

[Slm864]

From the sounds of this thread it seems no one is hunting montana this year.

 

[MTTW]

From the sounds of this thread it seems no one is hunting montana this year.

Want to bet?

 

[TOGIE]

As chitty as both states elk management policies are, I still have to think Montana has a better total inch of bone score over Colorado. And I'm 0 for 3 in Montana.

Quality is many, many things besides size. And it’s subjective.

 

[peterk1234]

Man, I wish I saw as many elk as I did hunters. Heck, I'd be happy with 25%. Scratch that spot off the list. I even climbed a couple thousand feet to try to get away. That's pretty good for this 57 year old

Still good fun. I'm enjoying the journey of trying to piece the puzzle together. I will get there.

 

[Derek44]

Quality is many, many things besides size. And it’s subjective.

Psh

 

[Irrelevant]

I didn't see a single other hunter where I was today. It was GLORIOUS. Oh the pure joy I felt. No animals but still, I'll take the peace and solitude.

Gosh you MT hunters are starting to sound like WA hunters

 

[Fire_9]

I didn’t see any people daylight to dark. No elk either. Just old bear tracks, a tiny muley buck and a lot of wolf tracks. Had to walk out, apparently I’m packing out a moose quarter tomorrow.

Now all I’m waiting for is a picture of the moose

 

[ismith]

Lots of people, three forkies, a coyote, lots of grouse, a moose and maybe an elk that ran by me in the dark. Pretty day to be in the mountains though.