Pronghorn

[8andcounting]

https://myfwp.mt.gov/getRepositoryFile?objectID=117234

Here’s the draw stats

 

[8andcounting]

And the b tag stats . Wow almost 4k doe tags in region 7 ……

https://myfwp.mt.gov/getRepositoryFile?objectID=117232

 

[Bowmannate2000]

And the b tag stats . Wow almost 4k doe tags in region 7 ……

https://myfwp.mt.gov/getRepositoryFile?objectID=117232

Looks like last year was 1500 for the same area. I guess wipe them out is the plan?

 

[8andcounting]

Looks like last year was 1500 for the same area. I guess wipe them out is the plan?

Apparently holy crap .

 

[Forkyfinder]

i suggest a level 4 vest this year, have fun boys!

 

[sclancy27]

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i suggest a level 4 vest this year, have fun boys!

I was talking to someone that is director level for a large AI firm. ~60% usage of current models is for essentially the above....memes and similar.

 

[Point Creep]

FWP has ALWAYS issued way too many antelope permits in R7. They bank on how 95% of antelope hunters operate, and the fact there's enough private land to let some of them survive. This is really nothing new.

 

[TOGIE]

let's all appreciate this for a moment.

 

[R.K.]

There are a few extreme statistical outliers in this set of results. I’m selfishly hoping the results hold, and a correction isn’t issued.

 

[DFS]

12k tags for region 7. That is insanity.

 

[sclancy27]

12k tags for region 7. That is insanity.

I don't know how you do math, but it's 16,000.

 

[DFS]

I don't know how you do math, but it's 16,000.

I haven’t even looked at B tags yet

 

[sclancy27]

I haven’t even looked at B tags yet

Now you don't have to

 

[Point Creep]

Back when numbers were pretty good (20-25 years ago), they'd give 12-14K either sex permits, and I believe all (or most) those successful license holders were then offered 2 extra doe/fawn permits. Do that math. Currently (my own opinion based on small local observations) there's less than half the antelope now, and the 16K seems to be about right in line with the ratio of stupidity of offereing 30K+ tags. The craziest of all times hunting antelope I've ever seen was in the mid-late 90s over there, opening day of antelope season. The daylight eruption of gunfire across the prairie, and high speed vehicles on terrible roads and cross country with running herds of speedgoats..

 

[sclancy27]

I think the most egregious thing is only having 2 different tags for pronghorn in R7 and expecting the public to distribute in approximately the same way the pronghorn are distributed.

 

[Forkyfinder]

I was talking to someone that is director level for a large AI firm. ~60% usage of current models is for essentially the above....memes and similar.

Wait until you figure out how much internet is used up on boobs.

 

[mtmuley]

Back when numbers were pretty good (20-25 years ago), they'd give 12-14K either sex permits, and I believe all (or most) those successful license holders were then offered 2 extra doe/fawn permits. Do that math. Currently (my own opinion based on small local observations) there's less than half the antelope now, and the 16K seems to be about right in line with the ratio of stupidity of offereing 30K+ tags. The craziest of all times hunting antelope I've ever seen was in the mid-late 90s over there, opening day of antelope season. The daylight eruption of gunfire across the prairie, and high speed vehicles on terrible roads and cross country with running herds of speedgoats..

I think Pat one time said a couple things make people crazy. Elk and money. I'd toss antelope hunting in there. Might not have been him but kinda true. mtmuley

 

[cgasner1]

Back when numbers were pretty good (20-25 years ago), they'd give 12-14K either sex permits, and I believe all (or most) those successful license holders were then offered 2 extra doe/fawn permits. Do that math. Currently (my own opinion based on small local observations) there's less than half the antelope now, and the 16K seems to be about right in line with the ratio of stupidity of offereing 30K+ tags. The craziest of all times hunting antelope I've ever seen was in the mid-late 90s over there, opening day of antelope season. The daylight eruption of gunfire across the prairie, and high speed vehicles on terrible roads and cross country with running herds of speedgoats..

You had to put this back out onto the web. I just got a email about the opportunity to buy a second doe tag

 

[DFS]

They wonder why there is landowner hunter conflicts. When you print more tags than wildlife available that is what you are going to get. MTFWP needs to take a hard look at there management. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

 

[brownbear932008]

They wonder why there is landowner hunter conflicts. When you print more tags than wildlife available that is what you are going to get. MTFWP needs to take a hard look at there management. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

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