Elk and Deer Harvest Below Average During Fifth Weekend in Southwest Montana

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Harvest of elk and deer was below the five-year average during the fifth weekend of the 2009 general big game season in southwest Montana.
  

Overall 8.5 percent of hunters checked game through the six check stations with 82 elk, 57 mule deer, and 32 white-tailed deer. About 2,050 hunters stopped at a southwest Montana check station. 
  

Although hunter numbers and percent of hunters with game are up as compared with 2008, those figures are down from the five-year average of 2,394 and 10.1 percent respectively. Elk and mule deer harvest were quite a bit lower than the five-year averages of 124 elk and 84 mule deer. White-tailed deer harvest was slightly above the five-year average of 32. 

  
Hunters still have one week to go in the 2009 general big game season, which ends one-half hour after sunset on Sunday, Nov. 29.

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