I strong l y urge the buying of all hunting license before opening 

 day, both archery & rifle, this is a very effective way to sort 

 out serious hunters. If the number of incidents of killing game 

 & then getting the license happens thruout the state as I know of 

 here in my area the number is very very high, with deer & elk 

 many kill 2 or 3 & then get more license, and with bears killed 

 in the area where I live, 301, I keep up on most of the kills and 

 I feel approximately 30 to 40 percent of the bears are killed 

 without a license, in the Cottonwood, Hylite, Bear, Willson, 

 Squaw Creek area last year these figures for 1987 are probably at 

 70 percent. Its a big hole in game management & encourages 

 illegal kills . I would appreciate it if the Dept. would 

 correspond with me on this, I would like to know why this hole is 

 not plugged. Thank you, Ed ter Telgte, 909 Little Bear Rd. 

 Gallatin Gateway, MT 59730. 



Question in Part 11 8a & 8b 



I would answer differently if it applied for only elk or only 

 deer. My archery elk (primary hunt) is done by permit only now. 

 If I don't receive a permit I'd still like to have the 

 opportunity to hunt by rifle. I think there should be more 

 permit areas in Western Mt. for elk archery! 



I feel that for deer hunting a person should be allowed an A tag 

 for archery and an A tag for rifle. Most of my archery hunting 

 is limited to trying to fill a deer B tag. 



I have not shot at a? with archery equipment as I want to be 

 absolutely sure of a killing shot. I'm a little concerned about 

 archery wounded elk not being recovered. 



Bow hunting is my only way to get a cow elk in this state until 

 something is done about the drawing system/ I have never drawn, 

 but I know people who haven't lived here a year draw and many of 

 the same people draw year after year! This makes me very 

 disapointed with the system in times of less access I refuse to 

 pay hunt in this state where I have lived and payed taxes for 31 

 years ! ! 



I love Montana and all it has to offer as far as big game is 

 concerned, but I think it would be a good idea for everyone to 

 purchase their licenses before the hunting season opened. the 

 reason is because it ' s too tempting for people to shoot a deer or 

 elk first, then go into town and buy a license. 



I would like to see more archery only deer hunting areas with 

 more tags available to the archery hunter. I would also like to 

 see the purchase of tags for the deer elk bear mandatory before 

 season opening day. 



1) The cost of licenses should be increased for the non farm 

 ranch hunter. 2) the herds to be harvested to increase trophy 

 bull numbers - ie more cow licenses. 3) game can be a big $ 



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