distribution, because of noise & the way they hunt, mostly really 

 care about the land owners, & the animals. My main concerns are 

 outfitters taking over the state, closing roads, buying Montana 

 lands - Its hard for the natives to find private land that isnt 

 leased by outfitter, which mostly house out of atate hunters 

 thats wrong! They fly the land spot animals - thats not hunting 

 thats killing. The MBA members, like myself care about the sport 

 & land, and most of all animals. 



Also if we go to rifle or bow season (must use one) many 

 people would hunt with a gun because of greater chances of 

 getting an animal . That would mean fewer archers which would lead 

 to more power for gun hunters, they would get longer seasons, 

 more land etc. Outfitter would again benefit - Thanks for your 

 concern. 



Archery hunting seems to have less impact on animal patterns . 

 However with the large increase of people who are becoming 

 archers, the impacts on animal behavior as well as congestion of 

 people in the field is starting to affect enjoyment of archery 

 hunting 



the early season, for archer's in the wilderness, have increased 

 so much, has ruined the chance for a big bull in the early rifle 

 season, I do not, think archery should have priviliges over the 

 rifleman, not one bit archery hunters should hunt with a bow by 

 choices not because of priviliges. 



Map illegible; seems to be a reasonable number of elk in great 

 bear wilderness; I don't think bowhunters have a significant 

 impact on game populations would like to see a post season hunt, 

 earlier start to bow season 



There are to many hunters out there that don ' t belong in the 

 sport of bowhunting 



After the first two weeks at archery season. There isn't hardly 

 any hunting pressure. Leave the archery hunting alone! 



I do not know why the fish and game, is trying to crack down on 

 archery hunting. There is no more pressure know to me than their 

 was 10 years ago. and the animals poplation is higher know than 

 was then, to me this is a little bit discremention toward bow 

 hunters. Also this season rifle hunting was the worst I very seen 

 for pressure. Where the hell is their survey at. as a hunter 

 outfitter and landowner, this sort of thing is uncalled for in 

 the state of Montana. Especially making a man decide between bow 

 hunting and rifle hunting, also some of this questions are 

 ridiculous . 



8(c) -I would favor raising license fees only if archers 

 benefitted from the increased revenue. Other than increased 

 hunting opportunity, archers get little management returns for 

 their license revenues. 



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