My friends and I are avid hunters of all species during both 

 rifle and archery season. Some of us own property on which we 

 hunt and therefore get a chance to observe wildlife all year 

 around. We all agree along with many others that the Fish and 

 Games Management should be questioned. 



Most archery hunting is good. I think with the deer population 

 the way it si a archery hunter should be able to purchase a deer 

 tag for archery and keep his rifle tag. I feel the state and the 

 dept of fish wildlife and parks is getting to commercialized. 

 Not just in archery but all hunting. They don't support your 

 average resident hunting permits. Also promoting pay hunting, no 

 access to public or private land and guided hunts. Yet we live 

 here and pay the taxes . 



Dept. needs to publish more information on bow hunting statistics 

 and comparisons with general rifle season. Needs to be a better 

 dialogue to answer questions on impact or game populations, 

 wounding losses, economic contributions by archers, etc. There 

 is a growing anti-archery sentiment based largely on 

 misinformation or lack of comaprisons with rifle hunting 

 statistics . 



Not being allowed to hunt elk in 690 during archery season is 

 unfair. The local representatives at the F&G dept. say it si the 

 wish of the landowners. This is obviously a B.S. story as many 

 landowners in 690 allow me to archery hunt during the regular 

 archery season. I would liek a better explanation! 



I'm glad to see that there are people in our fish game dept. that 

 are interested in the hunter rather than just the outfitters. 



The dept. of fish and game should be more interested in wildlife, 

 wildlife habitat and recreation for the citizens of Montana and 

 other visitors rather than in justifying their existence by 

 increasing fees and writing false game violations. From the 

 people that I have talked to the Fish and Game has little respect 

 from the citizens and sportsmen of Montana. 



In my opinion, the Montana dept. of Fish, Wildlife and Parks is a 

 joke, an expensive joke. 



I can't believe you are even thinking about shortening the 

 season, you charges us more than any other season, and give us 



less, you guys really have some . For once why don't you 



sit down and do the right thing, if there ever was a group of 

 sportsman that care about the game in which they hunt it is the 

 archer. Give us a season, with its owe tags. 



I don't belong to any archery or rifle club. Because the general 

 hunting person needs aren't met, just the needs of that club. I 



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