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  1. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    I love Browns fans. The fact that so many people hold that kind of hope so tightly every day despite all evidence to the contrary is a wonderful thing.
  2. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    You're a Cleveland Browns fan as well, aren't you.
  3. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    Some will try. They will fail.
  4. Ben Lamb

    80 years ago today D-Day landings

    The last stanza of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses always reminded me of those brave men and women.
  5. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    https://ballotpedia.org/Montana_I-161,_Increase_Nonresident_Hunting_License_Fees,_Abolish_Outfitter-Sponsored_Licenses,_and_Dedicate_Revenue_Initiative_(2010) MT has been pretty clear on that issue, and I don't see transferable licenses passing the legislature, or getting signed by this governor.
  6. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    The B10 and B11 combinations have not increased in number since put into statute. Those have been in existence since the 1970's. The increase in NR licensing was through antlerless. That's been dealt with under SB 281 that directs the agency to only allow 2 B licenses for NR's who hold a B10 or...
  7. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    You lose the earmarked funding for Block Management, Habitat Montana and other programs (depending on where else legislation goes). The NR Combination licenses are grandfathered in from the USFWS as far as dedicated funding for conservation and access. If you start to mess with that code, you...
  8. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    The statutory cap for non-resident antlered deer licenses is: B10 (big Game Combo): 17,000 B11 (deer combo) 6600 (4600 general, plus 2000 landowner set asides). If you want to eliminate the B11 entirely, you are looking at a revenue drop of approximately $9-10 million. So if that's your...
  9. Ben Lamb

    Kentucky latest to ban hog hunting.

    What you are describing is justification for the approach taken by the state. One property manages them for hunting, yet they still get out and invade other properties. The issue isn't that animals are leaving one to go to another, the issue is that there is now an expectation and market for...
  10. Ben Lamb

    Barn Finds and new rifle justification, so to speak

    Just gonna throw this out there: @noharleyyet - Get a nice, gently used British side by side and a plane ticket to Duluth for early October.
  11. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    LE also tends to also displace local hunters who are looking to just hunt. So while you may get fewer mule deer shot with LE, you push that pressure off on to whitetail and to MD units that are general, creating more issues in those places. Here is the 2023 Resident Mule Deer Survey...
  12. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    In some areas, I don't think it is, but that's up to locals to push it through. Statewide Limited Entry would be viewed as far too drastic a step in terms of reducing hunter opportunity for mule deer. The MT Hunter Surveys show that people want to hunt mule deer every year, and they aren't too...
  13. Ben Lamb

    Montana General Season Structure Proposal

    As folks debate this, consider as well that under this proposal, the use of shoulder seasons would not be as wide as currently employed, so the idea that you are adding 3 weeks of hunting pressure does not recognize that there are likely 3 months being cut off elsewhere. Landowner fatigue is a...
  14. Ben Lamb

    How much $ would you pay?

    you sweat your way, I'll sweat mine.
  15. Ben Lamb

    Barn Finds and new rifle justification, so to speak

    I'd say wait until the job is done. Generally, bathroom remodels go through 7 or 8 redesigns between the demolition and the finish work. This will be a better indicator of what kind of firearm, or firearms, you will be able to purchase. But, since this is the only bathroom, you should consider...
  16. Ben Lamb

    Barn Finds and new rifle justification, so to speak

  17. Ben Lamb

    Barn Finds and new rifle justification, so to speak

    A man of refinement, taste and class (and enough imprints from the frying pan on his head) has a formula down pat: For every high end item the wife gets, he gets an equivalent toy. This is why all of my rifles are twice as expensive as the paid price. Dork.
  18. Ben Lamb

    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Conflicted Wildlife Trustees (Commissioners)

    So minimize the voices you dislike.
  19. Ben Lamb

    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Conflicted Wildlife Trustees (Commissioners)

    So eliminate hunters, outfitters and landowners from having outsized influence?
  20. Ben Lamb

    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Conflicted Wildlife Trustees (Commissioners)

    So eliminate the voice of the people?

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