24. CONFLICT OF OVERLAPING SEASONS FOR DIFFERENT SPECIES. 



The biggest effect on rutting elk is the upland bird hunter. One 

 shotgun going off puts an end to all bugling by the bulls, and 

 the elk will move into a new drainage. 



I would like to see bird season opened during rifle season 

 because there is too many bird hunters scaring the game. 



I think it would be more fair for the bow hunter to have at least 

 one week of hunting without grouse hunting going on. 



Open grouse season with the general season so it keeps the 

 poachers and the shotgun noise out of the woods. Sorry for the 

 late reply but I was in Louisiana. 



I would like to have the bird season even later. Because there 

 to many bird hunter scaring the game. 



It would help archers if grouse and moose did not open as soon as 

 they do. Rifle shots affect the game and puts too many people in 

 the field at the same time. 



Hold grouse and pery chicken hunt till the same time as rifle 

 seson not during bow seson. 



The season could be 1 week earlier to allow working people to 

 take advantage of scouting and setting up camp and not be in 

 conflict as much with bird hunters. 



I think that Bird hunting increases the jumpiness of the Antelope 



a significant amount. 



Possibly we could open Antelope season 1 week before Bird season. 



In the Missouri Breaks area gun (bird) hunters should not be 

 permited on the river bottom in the willows where the archers 

 are. 



All the shooting of Rifles and Shotguns during Archery season 

 with Bear and Grouse season open pushes elk into the thickets on 

 North and East slopes. It also effects Bugling by the bulls. I 

 think bugles diaphram calls plastic whistles and the like to 

 imitate Elk sounds should be out lawed in this state. These 

 things are the biggest reason Bulls bugle very little during the 

 rut anymore . I feel people who won ' t take time to learn to 

 imitate elk sound with their own mouths have no business out 

 there with plastic whistles ruining the hunting for other 

 hunters. Mature bulls do know the difference when they hear this 

 garbage used. 



As noted before in this booklet there is a certain amount of time 



