I have been fighting a similar battle after a bad experience last year. It was wrestling season, and I had just stalked past some does toward a 5x6 mulie. I then called him closer using sign language.

Next thing I knew there was another hunter just above him in a tree. He was using some kind of wooden buck call. Probably made it with power tools. And I'll bet he bought the rubber band at some hardware store. Anybody can buy an artificial rubber band!

Anyway, he calls the buck away from me with his noise maker, jumped the buck from out of the tree, and stabbed him with some fancy alloy knife!

If that's a challenge to him, so be it. I can respect that. But what used to be traditinal ground wrestling season with conventional heads up tackling is sure getting easy if you can hide in a tree and just jump 'em with a knife.

We have formed a coalition to make knife season a seperate season altogether. But so far Montana's fish/wildlife won't even listen. I am not being selfish here. There is plenty of time between wrestling and spear season to have a knife season.