with rifle only, I would quit buying archery stamps. 



I also think shortening general season is a bad idea, also 

 causing fewer license sales, and decreasing quality of the hunt 



I wouldn't mind seeing a branch antled bull season for entire 

 state during general season. But am strictly opposed to shorting 

 the season. It might take two or three years to see some 

 results, but I think it would be worth it. 



I would also like to see more roads closed. But I would also 

 like to see the hunter have the opportunity to retrieve any 

 downed animal with a snowmobile or a all-terreian vec . after noon 

 hour providing no gun is being carried. This law is in effect 

 duriing the Gallatin late. Not everybody can afford horses. 



(b) only branch bull's should be killed maybe go to 4 pt or 

 better. I feel that something has to be done with the coyote 

 population in the CMR, maybe not so much as for the elk 

 population, but definatly for the deer population. 



I think elk should still be protected until they are at least 

 branch antlerd elk. The bull population is getting better, but 

 they still need more time. 



I think that we sould go to branch antlered bulls during regular 

 season. Have it so if you draw a cow tag you must kill a cow 

 nothing else. 



And I think that during the season for deer we sould go to 4 

 point or better bucks in some areas a antler bucks in others. 

 Mule deer have been on a decline in my area for quiet some time. 

 I think that they kill to many does and yearling deer at the 

 first of the season. We sould not allow that eight day doe 

 season. If they think the does need to be shot have the season at 

 the end of the season instead of at the front. Go to a doe permit 

 like elk but if you get one you have to kill a doe. 



Trophy bull elk populations are very low. There are also many 

 cows that do not have calves . People who have drawn cow tags 

 should not be allowed to kill Bulls, & it should be branch 

 antlered bulls only for a while as well. Antelope populations are 

 good in Big Hole & mule deer populations are increasing. 



I would like to see the bull population in the Gardiner area 

 rise. I soend more than a considerable amount of time in the 

 backcountry in the Fall and Spring and from what I have observed, 

 the bull population has diminished greatly in the last 6 or 7 

 years. Every year I see more herds without branch-bulls. In the 

 spring I find less and less dropped antlers. 



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