There are so many deer around here, I wouldn't have to take one of these. I won't be hunting until next year as I haven't been back in Montana long enough to get a resident license, was to late to apply for a real nonresident set up for bucks and elk. Anyone can buy several doe tags, but, nonresidents are $80 apiece. If I wait till next year a resident sportsman is $85 and includes: deer A, elk, and black bear license and authorizes fishing and hunting of upland birds, excluding turkey. Turkey is $6.50 for spring and fall and antelope is $19 and does permits are $10 each and you can get multiples of those depending on where you hunt them. Archery is extra, but you can hunt both archery and rifle. I will also start putting in for a moose permit every year. Hard to draw.
Montana story, I used to live the little town of Florence, there was a gas station/gun shop there ran by a guy everyone called Rhino. Every year Rhino, a hard core hunter, put in for a moose. There used to be a deal where residents who applied for 5 years in a row and didn't get one were moved to a special drawing with a much higher success rate. Rhino was on this list and should have got drawn in the next few years. Some out of stater sued the fish and game and got the list declared illegal. So he was out of luck. Worse, yet Rhino was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor the next summer. That fall Rhino loads up and goes over on the Ruby river where there are lots of moose and shoots a big ass bull moose without a tag. Didn't try to hide it and drove home with the whole thing in the back of an open pickup. Everyone knew what was going on, even the game wardens. Their comment, Nice moose Rhino. What are you going to do to a deadman walking anyway? Way to go and RIP Rhino
