Montana unit 304

[Stormbreaker]

Does anyone have any experience with hunter numbers/pressure in this unit specifically regarding deer hunting

 

[daiello91]

Montana fish and game provides the data on hunters, hunter days. and harvest % on their website.

 

[Stormbreaker]

Yea I've looked at that but then I looked at a few units that I'm familiar with and the numbers they have are bs!!

 

[daiello91]

I’d say call the local bio then and pick their brain because if pressure is low, that’s not something some is going to blast on the internet. You’re likely only going to get BS answers, because again no one wants to blow up an area they hunt.

Using MT data (or any other state), I take estimated hunter numbers and divide it by public land sq miles to determine a very rough hunters per sq mile if everyone is on public land (which will always be higher than reality). Take that into consideration with harvest rate and hunter days.

 

[Stormbreaker]

low hunter numbers can also mean low deer and elk populations

 

[daiello91]

For sure, that’s why I said taking that into account with hunter days and harvest rate.