I feel all of the little Belt mountains should go to branch 

 antlered bulls only. 



I feel that all licenses should be bought B-4 anyone could 

 apply for special permits and B-4 the hunting season opens. 



We need to get on a permit basis for cow elk during the rifle 

 season. I think the number of cow elk taken by archery hunters is 

 not significant enough to limit the bowhunter to any either sex 

 regulations 



I think a better way of up grading trophy Elk wuld be to issue 

 cow permits for archery only and allow a permit hunter an added 

 two weeks to hunt either Pre or Post . But I am not saying to cut 

 of Rifle season permit holders either. Another alternitive I 

 think might work would be to increase Rifle season cow permits to 

 cut down on Bull pressure and when you get a cow permit that is 

 all you can shoot is a cow to many people I know can use the meat 

 and not care about horns . and there are those who get the 

 permit's and if they get into a herd instead of shooting a cow 

 shoot the bull instead. I personally have been putting in for cow 

 permits since it began and haven't drawn yet and you can bet if I 

 had a cow permit it would be filled before and thought of a bull 



You said this was a survey, but didn' t say how it would be used. 

 Are more restrictive regulations on the horizon? If they are, say 

 so! 



I would like to see some districts designated "trophy bull" 

 where the harvest of spike bulls is controlled by permit and then 

 you can't shoot a bull again until it;s a mature 6 point. 



There should be special permitts issued for branch-antlered bulls 

 to help keep the population of big bulls up 



I think that there are alot of unskilled & unpractised archers in 

 the woods. Granted the hardest thing is judgment of distance. I 

 think there is definate reduction of local herds. Especially 

 because of unused cow permits during rifle season & the amount of 

 spike bulls taking everybody wants a bull ! I say cow permits take 

 only cows & no more spike bulls in low populated areas. 



I hunt in areas 333,320 they are branch antler for elk and four 

 point or better for deer over last 3 years have seen more nice 

 Elk and deer in there area since change. Would like to see state 

 wide or at least an or around forest service land and BLM land. 



I would like to see more areas managed for larger bulls during 

 rifle season as more elk are killed then. Too many small bulls 

 were holding large herds of cows during the rut. 



I feel the seasons are quite liberal which is great. I dread an 

 either-or season because I like to hunt with the rifle also. 



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