excerpts were taken from a report of those findings published in 1990 (Duffield and Neher, 

 1990). 



"People who hunt deer in Montana are a very heterogeneous group. Some travel 3,000 miles 

 to hunt and others walk out their back door. Some spend $10 on a trip and others $2,000." 



Hunters were grouped into four categories - residents, nonresidents, guided, and nonguided. 

 The guided group was predominately nonresidents, since less than 1% of the residents hire a 

 guide. "While the vast majority of all hunters were male, resident hunters had a lower 

 percentage of males (85.5%) than did nonresidents (94.8%). Nonresidents and guided hunters 

 spent significantly more time hunting deer each year than did residents" (18.39 days per 

 nonresident, 20.12 days per guided, versus 10.73 days per resident and 11.56 days per 

 nonguided). The survey also found that nonresidents were twice as likely as the resident and 

 nonguided hunters to belong to a conservation organization (55.5% versus 24.4% and 27.9% 

 respectively). 



Deer hunters frequently hunt other big game species while hunting deer. Generally, this was 

 more true for the nonresident hunters (28.3% killed other big game) and the guided hunters 

 (40.7%), than the residents (15.9%), suggesting that a significant number of the guided 

 hunters in the sample were primarily guided for other species, elk in particular. Table 4 from 

 the survey report summarizes the information by species. 



The survey also determined that hunting characteristics vary widely across FWP 

 administrative regions. There are nearly twice as many hunters in Regions 1, 2, & 3 than in 

 Regions 4, 5, 6, & 7 (Table 5). As stated earlier in the Trend in Hunter Numbers Section, 

 density of hunters per square mile is also highest in these regions. Also, the number of deer 

 observed is significantly higher in Regions 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 than Regions 1 and 2. 



In addition to grouping hunters by resident and nonresident, guided and nonguided, they can 

 be described as four types - generalists-enthusiast hunters (27%), meat hunters (36%), 

 generalists-meat hunters (14%), and trophy hunters (23%). 



A description of each type follows: 



Generalists-Enthusiast Hunters 



These hunters seemed to enjoy nearly every aspect of the deer hunting trip. The three highest 

 rated reasons which they gave for hunting were "for the meat," "for a chance at a big 

 trophy," and "to test my hunting skills." Lowest importance to the group was having a 

 special permit to hunt an area. 



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