Recent content by timmy

I remember a Colorado guy on here telling me that Colorado will never be Montana. They are doing a great job. They will be Montana if they continue.

I think the experience of Montana would be just as good with an October season. The big bucks are gone have been for some time, we have population issues now. There is an uprising with residents and I see some changes coming, hopefully for the better.

Things are coming to a head and I suspect nonresidents to be the first that get limited. Rightfully so.

It was a nice recap. It shows how nonresident hunters treat Montana and the challenges we face. I don’t think there is any jealously from any of the bucks the OP posted. There is concern on how far we have fell with our mule deer herd. Year after year of every buck moving getting shot has...

I agree with almost everything you’ve said but when nonresidents are shooting more bucks than residents in some of the regions, nonresidents have become a problem at that point.

Bull, buck, and whitetail buck in the last photo. Whitetails don’t count

I’m all for opportunity but once populations crash and we are effecting the herd health there needs to be a hard stop. Opportunity is going to dry up real quick if we continue on the same course. We may have been able to handle 21k plus nonresident tags in the past but we can’t anymore.

I’ve hunted deer out of state 4 times. Night and day difference on 3 out of the 4 hunts. Incredible to me Montana deer tags keep selling out and nonresidents are happy with the quality of hunt.

Most of the local resident hunters have either quit or hunt private. Western Montana and nonresidents put a pounding on our bucks. The population decline is a perfect storm but the populations never came back after the winters around 2011-2012. 11k doe tags were issued in region 7 long before...