Montana 2023

[Mtnwalker]

I got my etag immediately and knew my results long before results posted. Very much enjoy the etags.

The etags scare me ha ha. Does seem way more convenient maybe I need to grow a pair and just get them 😂

it's great.  No paper tags to get destroyed or forgotten at home. Plus you can add tags so easily. Bought a whitetail doe tag from the mountain last year and boom its right there. No driving to town needed.

Wonder how many people will get nailed for notching their tags like 8 minutes after they're purchased... 

[phildobaggins]

I got my etag immediately and knew my results long before results posted. Very much enjoy the etags.

The etags scare me ha ha. Does seem way more convenient maybe I need to grow a pair and just get them 😂

it's great.  No paper tags to get destroyed or forgotten at home. Plus you can add tags so easily. Bought a whitetail doe tag from the mountain last year and boom its right there. No driving to town needed.

Wonder how many people will get nailed for notching their tags like 8 minutes after they're purchased... 

LMFAOOO 

[Karl Blanchard]

I got my etag immediately and knew my results long before results posted. Very much enjoy the etags.

The etags scare me ha ha. Does seem way more convenient maybe I need to grow a pair and just get them 😂

it's great.  No paper tags to get destroyed or forgotten at home. Plus you can add tags so easily. Bought a whitetail doe tag from the mountain last year and boom its right there. No driving to town needed.

Wonder how many people will get nailed for notching their tags like 8 minutes after they're purchased... 

we almost did. Glassed up a pocket of whitetails so bought the tag. By the time I got through the transaction they had fed back into the river bottom jungle. If they had given us another minute we would have had one dead like 1 minute after it showed up in the app 

[Stein]

You can turn GPS off when you notch your tag (location services in iPhone).  The tag is downloaded to your phone and you can notch the tag without service and then when back in town you could turn your cell service back on and it will sync with the server.

Also, by law FW&P has no access to any location data.

That's real good to know!

Of course, Russian hackers will be in there at some point, but I'm willing to live with that.

You can also have kid's tags on your phone so they can't lose them.  The only downside is if you lose your phone you're in trouble, but you can also lose a piece of paper so it's a wash.

[BULLBLASTER]

Can you have some paper tags and also some e tags? Like general tag paper and then buy a whitetail b tag as etag?

[Karl Blanchard]

You can turn GPS off when you notch your tag (location services in iPhone).  The tag is downloaded to your phone and you can notch the tag without service and then when back in town you could turn your cell service back on and it will sync with the server.

Also, by law FW&P has no access to any location data.

That's real good to know!

Of course, Russian hackers will be in there at some point, but I'm willing to live with that.

You can also have kid's tags on your phone so they can't lose them.  The only downside is if you lose your phone you're in trouble, but you can also lose a piece of paper so it's a wash.

  My phone is my camera, my GPS, etc. Far less likely to lose or damage my phone than I am to lose or mess up paper tags. I've had to buy duplicate tags more than a few times but in all my years of having a cell phone I've only ever lost or broken 1.

[mburrows]

Can you have some paper tags and also some e tags? Like general tag paper and then buy a whitetail b tag as etag?

Yes. Just cant have a paper tag and e tag for the same tag.

[Karl Blanchard]

Can you have some paper tags and also some e tags? Like general tag paper and then buy a whitetail b tag as etag?

Yes. Just cant have a paper tag and e tag for the same tag.

[Stein]

You can turn GPS off when you notch your tag (location services in iPhone).  The tag is downloaded to your phone and you can notch the tag without service and then when back in town you could turn your cell service back on and it will sync with the server.

Also, by law FW&P has no access to any location data.

That's real good to know!

Of course, Russian hackers will be in there at some point, but I'm willing to live with that.

You can also have kid's tags on your phone so they can't lose them.  The only downside is if you lose your phone you're in trouble, but you can also lose a piece of paper so it's a wash.

  My phone is my camera, my GPS, etc. Far less likely to lose or damage my phone than I am to lose or mess up paper tags. I've had to buy duplicate tags more than a few times but in all my years of having a cell phone I've only ever lost or broken 1.

Hopefully you are knocking on as much wood as you can find.

That's my thought as well, I've lost tags, left them in the pocket of something that was left in the hotel, ruined some with water, grabbed the wrong tag, had tags come off while dragging, thrown a tag away with bones, pretty much every stupid thing a guy could do.

I think they will always have a paper option as well, so everyone can be happy.

[Mtnwalker]

I got my etag immediately and knew my results long before results posted. Very much enjoy the etags.

The etags scare me ha ha. Does seem way more convenient maybe I need to grow a pair and just get them 😂

it's great.  No paper tags to get destroyed or forgotten at home. Plus you can add tags so easily. Bought a whitetail doe tag from the mountain last year and boom its right there. No driving to town needed.

Wonder how many people will get nailed for notching their tags like 8 minutes after they're purchased... 

we almost did. Glassed up a pocket of whitetails so bought the tag. By the time I got through the transaction they had fed back into the river bottom jungle. If they had given us another minute we would have had one dead like 1 minute after it showed up in the app 

Works great for the honest guys, I was thinking more like BANG... "welp I guess I better buy a tag now" 

Then again I coulda had a dandy bull in CO a few years back if this was available. Painful to sit there and dry fire on em with no tag in the pocket!

[Stein]

Is there a time limit?  I seem to remember a tag where you couldn't use it within 24 hours or something like that, might have been bear or wolf?

[Karl Blanchard]

Is there a time limit?  I seem to remember a tag where you couldn't use it within 24 hours or something like that, might have been bear or wolf?

I couldn't find anything stating time limits but that's a good question.

[Stein]

Found it, for a wolf tag you can't hunt until 24 hours after the tag has been issued.  That's for paper, I assume the same rule applies to etags.  This was from the '21 regs:

A wolf-hunting license purchased after August 31 may not be used until 24 hours after the license is issued

[Gettin Birdie]

I got my etag immediately and knew my results long before results posted. Very much enjoy the etags.

The etags scare me ha ha. Does seem way more convenient maybe I need to grow a pair and just get them 😂

it's great.  No paper tags to get destroyed or forgotten at home. Plus you can add tags so easily. Bought a whitetail doe tag from the mountain last year and boom its right there. No driving to town needed.

Wonder how many people will get nailed for notching their tags like 8 minutes after they're purchased... 

we almost did. Glassed up a pocket of whitetails so bought the tag. By the time I got through the transaction they had fed back into the river bottom jungle. If they had given us another minute we would have had one dead like 1 minute after it showed up in the app 

Works great for the honest guys, I was thinking more like BANG... "welp I guess I better buy a tag now" 

Then again I coulda had a dandy bull in CO a few years back if this was available. Painful to sit there and dry fire on em with no tag in the pocket!

The thought crossed my mind , hard not too since it was a lion, and I watched it try to stalk a deer (it escaped) and turkeys, so even more tempting, elk or deer not so much.  Very painful! but alas, rules are rules for a reason and it was unethical.  I'd have no problem if I could have bought the tag over the phone real quick though, the cats are insane there, I'll have a tag in pocket next year no doubt!  The quota here is so stupid too, and is over in a week or less when dogs are allowed. 

[haus]

I like the idea of E Tags but just like OnX I don't like the idea that someone has access to all those data points of where the bulls and bucks are being tagged. Could you imagine being able to see where all the bulls are being tagged in MT, scouting just got super easy for a select few  . I stick to paper tags so only a general unit description is given and my OnX has "misguiding icons" on my waypoints that'll make anyone scratch their head.

Interesting point. Not sure if harvest location data from the states that have etag programs is pdr discoverable or not in those specific states, but no doubt someone’s already tried it get it that way lol.