How bad is the hunting in Montana?

[Geewhiz]

I have a hard time hearing year to year reports from non res hunters who base their entire view on their 6 day experience.

 

[wind gypsy]

I have a hard time hearing year to year reports from non res hunters who base their entire view on their 6 day experience.

Fair. For what it’s worth I used to spend 2 or 3 trips during hunting season and did some summer backpacking scouting trips as well.

 

[Greenhorn]

What is this legislation you speak of?

I was wondering the same thing. A lot to unpack in that first post and his reply. I think he must be talking about the MCS groups’ deer proposal - not really legislation. The proposal suggested taking general season deer hunting out of November. If I remember right, he was one of those guys that had some real heartburn over that.

@Jon Boy - sounds like you lace your boots up tighter the majority of us complaining softies and experience some awesome hunting. I’m glad that you have it all figured out and have a different opinion than some of us oldies who expect the instant gratification of the old days, and much easier hunting than you choose to tackle.

There’s no arguing with somebody else’s opinion, assumptions, or other wild fantasies, but I’ll share my opinion, again . Montana has some great hunting. It’s not improving, and it could be so much better.

 

[willfrye027]

I was wondering the same thing. A lot to unpack in that first post and his reply. I think he must be talking about the MCS groups’ deer proposal - not really legislation. The proposal suggested taking general season deer hunting out of November. If I remember right, he was one of those guys that had some real heartburn over that.

@Jon Boy - sounds like you lace your boots up tighter the majority of us complaining softies and experience some awesome hunting. I’m glad that you have it all figured out and have a different opinion than some of us oldies who expect the instant gratification of the old days, and much easier hunting than you choose to tackle.

There’s no arguing with somebody else’s opinion, assumptions, or other wild fantasies, but I’ll share my opinion, again . Montana has some great hunting. It’s not improving, and it could be so much better.

I think your last two sentences are spot on. You can easily replace Montana with any western state at this point..

However the easy button for bigger bucks would be to get rid of late November mule deer hunting, and MD doe hunting. Very few states have an “easy fix” like that, but getting your residents to give up an easy thanksgiving week road forky seems to be a challenge. Selfishly I’d love to see that proposal go through..I’d love to see some bigger deer on the landscape. For now I’m pretty happy with either sex elk every few years, it’s keeping my freezer full

 

[Fowl Play]

My general experience, not just in MT but in many states. Is that areas where hunting has “gone downhill”, “is terrible”, “ruined by NR” etc. many times just means you can’t shoot a monster from the road anymore…

It must have been great to experience that, you still can, just requires a little more work.