Reduction in number of NR deer licenses

[Forkyfinder]

Just makes me think that any improvement gained buy getting rid of NR will be quickly squashed by R getting back in the game as soon a things improve.

Who's resource is it again?

 

[huntin24/7]

Just makes me think that any improvement gained buy getting rid of NR will be quickly squashed by R getting back in the game as soon a things improve.

That could be true, although I’m not sure anything will be improving enough any time soon to cause that. I think this is why it’s important to come at this from different angles such as reduction of non res(as was done), more restrictive seasons for res and non res alike, and spreading out pressure by various means.

 

[mtmuley]

Just makes me think that any improvement gained buy getting rid of NR will be quickly squashed by R getting back in the game as soon a things improve.

It's interesting to me that hunters will drive 8 hours across the state to hunt deer in the Eastern part of Montana. I've never killed one out of Ravalli county in 40 years. Mule deer or whitetail. mtmuley

 

[MTTW]

I hunted 12 days in sw MT this rifle season. I generally cover 5 to 7 miles a day in the mountains. It is not unusual for me to pass small bull elk in rifle season at less than 100 yards and have done it with a muzzleloader in rifle season. Not to brag just to show that I am not a total bitch at hunting.

I saw 7 mule deer in the mountains this season, 2 bucks and 5 does. My son put 70 miles on a horse the last 2 weeks of season before he saw a mule deer, then saw 2.

I went east for 3 days middle of season with warm dry weather and saw over 100 mule deer with very little truck time and 5 miles aprox. a day on foot.
It is no mystery to me why people drive east to hunt deer.

 

[SAJ-99]

There are more and more residents I know of every year choosing to not fill their tags because of what’s left out there to hunt. Theres so much pressure on accessible land that it unfortunately makes little if any difference.

Do they buy one or eight?

"In another amendment from Robinson, the commission reduced the number of general deer tags a resident hunter can hold from 8 to 3."

 

[huntin24/7]

Do they buy one or eight?

"In another amendment from Robinson, the commission reduced the number of general deer tags a resident hunter can hold from 8 to 3."

haha! Most of these guys just get their general. I can’t believe we’re still giving out whitetail doe tags valid for a whole region when they’re really struggling in most of region 6. I have to give them credit for stopping those tag sales after ehd came through though.

 

[Gerald Martin]

Do they buy one or eight?

"In another amendment from Robinson, the commission reduced the number of general deer tags a resident hunter can hold from 8 to 3."

Commissioner Robinson commented on this amendment that it’s as much about the optics of allowing hunters to shoot up to 8 deer when deer populations are down across the state as a whole as it is about biology.

I tend to agree that three deer is more than enough for hunters to shoot, but I don’t think the 8 to 3 reduction really affects public pressure that much. That’s an uneducated opinion. It would be really nice to have mandatory harvest reporting to verify and understand who is killing what and where it’s getting killed in regards to unit and private or public land.