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<blockquote data-quote="Lee Deming" data-source="post: 2478878" data-attributes="member: 107264"><p>I have to say that this info on MT is inaccurate. Not sure if you are trying to discourage people from coming here or just had a bad decade. Montana's elk numbers are through the roof with numbers in many districts 200% over objective and everyone scrambling to find ways to mitigate the damage the elk do to ranches and farms. This despite a hunting season that begins August 15 and runs to February 15 in some places. There are plenty of elk but access is the main problem. I hunt mostly public land for elk. Two years ago I hunted a new piece of private land that allows limited hunting next to a vast swath of private land that doesn't. For two days we watched the neighbor's elk loaf around a little pond in broad daylight. I stopped counting at 300 head including 6 truly gigantic bulls. Remember, I was on private land also. As we walked into position the third day that herd got up and moved our way with the cows staying on the neighbor's place but still moving West with a group of giant, medium, and small bulls jumping the fence 70 yards in front of us onto the place I had permission to hunt. No one had a bull tag, so I got beautiful video of that tail end of the bull herd jumping that fence and trotting into the timber. I very nearly shot a spike-which was legal-but thank goodness I waited until his head turned a little to show a small fork on one side. This last Fall during archery season I was hunting 350 miles from this same spot and saw 400 head including a wide 7-point as we were driving to a relatively small state section. They were on private land, naturally. We did call a nice 5X5 into range about 15 minutes after legal light. Heard a number of hunters that I know driving past a herd of 4,000 elk up in the Missouri Breaks hanging out on private land which doesn't allow hunting. Many of these herds stay on private land that doesn't allow hunting during the day and then disperse at night to ravage the neighbor's places that do allow hunting. The problem is access to those elk, not the actual elk numbers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lee Deming, post: 2478878, member: 107264"] I have to say that this info on MT is inaccurate. Not sure if you are trying to discourage people from coming here or just had a bad decade. Montana's elk numbers are through the roof with numbers in many districts 200% over objective and everyone scrambling to find ways to mitigate the damage the elk do to ranches and farms. This despite a hunting season that begins August 15 and runs to February 15 in some places. There are plenty of elk but access is the main problem. I hunt mostly public land for elk. Two years ago I hunted a new piece of private land that allows limited hunting next to a vast swath of private land that doesn't. For two days we watched the neighbor's elk loaf around a little pond in broad daylight. I stopped counting at 300 head including 6 truly gigantic bulls. Remember, I was on private land also. As we walked into position the third day that herd got up and moved our way with the cows staying on the neighbor's place but still moving West with a group of giant, medium, and small bulls jumping the fence 70 yards in front of us onto the place I had permission to hunt. No one had a bull tag, so I got beautiful video of that tail end of the bull herd jumping that fence and trotting into the timber. I very nearly shot a spike-which was legal-but thank goodness I waited until his head turned a little to show a small fork on one side. This last Fall during archery season I was hunting 350 miles from this same spot and saw 400 head including a wide 7-point as we were driving to a relatively small state section. They were on private land, naturally. We did call a nice 5X5 into range about 15 minutes after legal light. Heard a number of hunters that I know driving past a herd of 4,000 elk up in the Missouri Breaks hanging out on private land which doesn't allow hunting. Many of these herds stay on private land that doesn't allow hunting during the day and then disperse at night to ravage the neighbor's places that do allow hunting. The problem is access to those elk, not the actual elk numbers. [/QUOTE]
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