hope shots and keeps his shots to a practical distance, 



I feel that we need to go to gun or archery only. For many 

 people archery season is a no limit road hunt with tags saved for 

 rifle season or provided by other people who have never shot a 

 bow in their life. Everyone who tags an animal should be 

 required to prove that they can at least pull back the bow they 

 claim to have shot it with. 



I do not believe that the number of elk killed by archers can 

 have an adverse affect on the overall elk pop. because of the low 

 numbers of elk killed. 



I am opposed to having to choose between bow or rifle. I favor 

 Sept. for archery season. 



Generally archery hunting by and large hasn't changed all that 

 drasticlly. As soon as the timber has been cut I see the forest 

 returning to normal baring a few roads. Also if this is a 

 questonair to find support for a (either or) season I can't stree 

 enough the damage this would have on both sports. Sticks 

 together are tough to break by themselves. 



Except for two things I am pretty satisfied with the hunting in 

 MT. I think a person should have to choose bow hunting or rifle 

 hunting. I am also not in favor of road closures. In theory 

 they sound good. In practice they create a private hunting 

 ground for outfitters and people rich enough to own horses. 



When do we get one of these for the late season hunt in the 

 Gallatin: Now that I'd really like to respond to. 



If a person is good enough to kill big game with a bow then he 

 should not be penalized. He should be able to harvest each 

 species with a bow and rifle. 



Both bow and rifle seasons too long. Hunters must choose between 

 bow or rifle. 



I think the archery season in Montana is great. I just wish 

 Montana would make a person choose what he or she is going to 

 hunt with. I see so many people who just throw a bow and a few 

 dull arrows in the pickup in case they see something to shoot at. 

 I think by making a person choose the archery season would have a 

 better groups of hunters int he field. I'm not saying that all 

 people who hunt with gun and bow are this way, because I hunt 

 with both myself, but I've saw several people who go out and get 

 a bow, never practice and shoot a lot of arrows at game. This I 

 think is what gives serious archery hunters a bad name. All 

 hunters in the field should be educated in the way they are 

 hunting. I takes hours and hours of pracitce to get good with a 

 bow and arrow. I think if a person could only hunt in archery 



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