like to hunt but don't have $1000-$1500 to get everything needed 

 to go on a hunting trip. 



Regardless, you have to pay an outfitter almost $1000 just for 

 the trip and you aren't guaranteed an elk or any species of 

 animal you're hunting. 



I think hunting needs to be setup for all age groups. We need to 

 make hunting accessible for young & old. We do not need more 

 land locked up by primitive land to benefit a few, manly the 

 guide service! I think the forest if for every one to enjoy, not 

 jsut a few. If we make laws to benefit a few, the rest will be 

 hurt. 



I have only recently started bowhunting because gun rifle season 

 is a joke as we never see any elk. The areas where elk are 

 abundant on public land seems to always be tied-up by outfitters 

 on access restricted by land owners - I ahve a lot more 

 opportunity bowhunting in having access to elk but is much more 

 challenging and rewarding. Elk do not seem pressured by 

 bowhunters as by rifle hunters. 



I feel that the Fish & Game Dept . caters to the whims of the 

 outfitters. Big money is buying our best hunting. Most people 

 in Montana do not have the money to pay for this type of hunting. 



The Montana hunter is slowly being shut out of the better hunting 

 areas . 



I do not feel thay you may have to limit the number of bowhunters 

 in a few areas such as in the "breaks". 



The Fish-Wildlife & Park's Dept. have done a very effective job 

 in the area I hunt. I think that if restrictions to bow hunting 

 develope it would deminish the enjoyment my son & I have 

 together. If any restriction's need to be put in place it is the 

 amount of out of state permits available. I live in this great 

 state all year I pay state tax and do a lot of work for my town & 

 state because I love it hear All Year ! 



I think that the either, or system would decrease the archery 



pressure. 



I have only one complaint, that is some outfitters think they own 



public lands . 



Outfitters doesn't seem to be a problem with ELK as much as with 

 deer. First we have to pay for a deer lie. & a conservations lie 

 & an Archery permit, then they want us to pay a total stranger 



that doesn't give a about the land for the right to hunt 



deer. You people give him the right to make profit off of deer 

 that he payed no money to raise in the first place. 



To many outastate hunter's in archery & rifle serson. Make the 

 licensers increase for outastate Hunter's & take in less of them. 

 I think the moose drawing for licenses are rigid & no outastate 



