Sugguetions and comments from regions archery member shoudl be 

 reviewed better. Archers know aobut elk thaer populations better 

 than the guys down there in Helena . 



Sirs, 



Elk in my district #333, elk populations have been drastically 

 effected in recent specail hunts in past years. Elk are scarce, 

 small in size, and scattered. Elk need better management for 

 strong herds ! 



I am more interested in quantity of elk not quality such as six 

 point bulls. If I had a choice of shooting cow or six point bull 

 I would take the cow. 



Increase elk population and set one district up in th western 

 side of Motnana for archery hunting elk only! (No rifles) 



Road closures have helped hunting pressure, elk populations are 

 high, but they are becoming harder to hunt. Rifle hunters 

 especially are complaining about lack of bulls, but from my 

 experience there is good population of mature bulls where I hunt. 

 Hunters just aren't hunting hard enough. 



Closest opportunity to shoot at an elk was 100 yds which leaves 

 lots of room for improvement on my part, but I was discouraged at 

 the lack of elk numbers in the Northwestern part of the state. I 

 seen only one elk all season, and it was in archery season. 



Bow hunting is fine, except for the amount of big bulls and 

 bucks . 



Need more elk and bulls in #442-422, 427,-425 mountain medows are 

 under grazed and starting to turn into old spoiled medows licks 

 are also growing over and we see less elk in summer and fall. 



My party has hunted anywhere from the 1st week to the last week 

 of the season. The numbers of "big" bulls has decreased 

 dramaticly. Seldom are spikes seen. A landowner had 180 herd of 

 cows and calves and no bulls. Bugling has also decreased. 



Season should start a week to ten days later and should end two 

 weeks before general hunting season. Further steps should be 

 taken to increase numbers of mature bulls-like in elk horns. 

 Expand to more areas . 



During rifle season, if a hunter draws a "cow tag" for a bulls 

 only elk area, he should be required to kill cows only-not bulls. 



Archery season, take what you can get, but rifle season should be 

 closed to spike elk and open to branch bulls only. 



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