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| JWBINX:
Maybe Montana should have special permits for Mule deer in November instead of open season through out the month during the rut? Like most other states. Carbon Hunter, please explain; shooting a doe in November, makes 3 less deer the following year. Just to be transparent, I will never shoot a Mule deer doe!! |
| Alan K:
Doe + 2 fawns = 3 deer... |
| Alan K:
Personally I don't mind seeing a kid shoot a doe, but other than that the only reason in my mind to have doe tags at all is if the population is at carrying capacity for the land. Montana might actually get close at times, but they certainly arent there right now. I don't mind seeing 150 deer a day when hunting. :twocents: I would always rather err on the side of big populations rather than overshooting and ending up like Washington. Makes for a better bounce back if there is a boom in predators or a bad winter. |
| huntandjeep:
--- Quote from: CarbonHunter on December 07, 2025, 08:47:33 AM --- --- Quote from: huntandjeep on December 06, 2025, 05:20:44 PM --- --- Quote from: Sakko300wsm on December 05, 2025, 07:07:46 PM ---who in the hell would kill a mule deer doe!!! --- End quote --- Alot of people. --- End quote --- They don’t shoot just one they shoot half a dozen in some units. With limiting the NR tags they are also reducing the number of tags someone can have from 8 to 3 so that will actually help. Not that a lot of people shoot 8 deer but some people do. For each doe shot in November that’s 3 less deer in June if that does survives winter. 🤷♂️ --- End quote --- I agree with you . I have never bought a doe tag in Montana in the 10 years ive been hunting Montana. Hell I've never applied for a doe or Cow tag in Washington. Never saw the point to " Fill the freezer" . And I have seen multiple Montana guys at the hotel with 6 or 7 does in the back of their trucks . Of course they are usually the same guys complaining about the Washington guys shooting all the young / dink spikes and forkies. While having young spikes and forkies in the back to " Fill the freezer " . Of course I've also seen a lot of Washington ( and other states ) guys with young bucks in the back of their trucks as well . :dunno: |
| MADMAX:
I’ve seen the same thing many times I’ll never forget walking into the Big Sky bar and there was a flatbed truck parked out front that had eight or nine deer in it two or three elk in it a few pronghorn and underneath it all they had turkeys and they were Montana guys And you never hear anybody bitching about the tribes |
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