Overall I feel our seasons are fine, I do not believe we should 

 increase season length unless landowners approve. I feel there 

 are too many "Instant Bowhunters " Mandatory BH education and 

 increased fees could combat this . The need for more branch 

 antelered only seasons is obvious to most hunters I talk to - I 

 own a bar and talk to plenty of them. Unfortunately this 

 attitude apparently is not shared with/by FW&P. 



In a whole I'm pretty satisfied with the current system of 

 archrey hunting in the state. Except I would like to see all new 

 archers new to the sport. have to complete a hunters awarness & 

 saftey course before Receiving a archery hunting license. 



I've heard rumour about all types of things dealing with the 

 hunting system in Montana. I feel that for the most part the 

 system of management is fine. There is a few little problems 

 that arise occationally, but that's expected. Please, I believe 

 I speak for a lot of hunters in saying, don't change anything 

 drasticly, the problem lies in the hands of hunters to straighten 

 out those who don't want to follow your guidelines. 



I would strongly suggest that ALL bowhunters take bowhunter 

 saftey - to many people have too little knowledge about hunting 

 ethics and bowhunting. And thank you for taking the time and 

 money to survey the bowhunters in Montana . 



Hunter-Landowner relations are a big problem, for 2 reasons; 1. 



Landowners are unhappy people, because of the general state of 



the economy, and the times in general. 2. I didn't always, but 



now believe that more than 50% of hunters have inferior behavior, 



because of both ignorance, and destructive belief patterns. 



Lastly: There are too many hunters, but archery hunters have by 



far the least negative impact, on a per capita basis or 



otherwise. 



Questions #1 on page 2, and #1 on page 5 are too general to be of 



value. 



I feel that all hunting fees, especially for firearm hunting 



should be raised, to create revenue to improve game population 



levels, and to reduce total number of hunters. I realize this is 



tending towards a rich man;s sport, but that's the way it's going 



anyway, and it may be the best way to insure quality hunting. 



All archers should have to pass a shooting course to buy archers 

 stamp. Too many people I've seen shooting at elk at 100 plus 

 yards, I've talked to a lot who said they couldn't even hit a 

 paper plate at 50 yds. I think we could reduce the number of 

 hunters especially non-serious and reduce the number of wounded 

 animals . 



I believe that there are too many Archery hunters that are not 

 properly trained, and they end up cripiling animals and never 



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