MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana Department of Corrections will hold a drawing Thursday forspecial access rifle permits for cow elk hunting at theMontana Correctional Enterprise ranch in Deer Lodge. The ...

Montana is usually ranked as one of America’s best elk hunting states. Deer, antelope, mountain sheep, game birds and numerous other wildlife species are the annual targets of over 100,000 Montana ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. CAMERON — In the foothills around the Madison Valley, Montana’s general rifle season kicked off ...

Did you get your elk? This rifle season was mild, and elk and deer were widely dispersed and hard to find. Is changing climate influencing wildlife and hunting? While our weather is variable from year ...

Oct. 4—The general big game hunting season begins Saturday, Oct. 26, and state officials are predicting more animals on the landscape following a mild winter. Big game survival in Region 1, northwest ...

The Steyr Scout II is the latest version of the Steyr Scout Rifle, which the company designed with input from former Marine and Gunsite Academy founder Jeff Cooper. Intended as a general purpose rifle ...

Montana’s annual youth-only deer hunt is Oct. 19-20, Thursday and Friday. The general rifle season opens to the rest of the state's hunters on Saturday a half hour before sunrise. The season runs ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Did you get your elk? This rifle season was mild, and elk and deer were widely dispersed and hard ...

In little more than a century Montana’s elk herd has grown from near extinction to a population that now greatly exceeds wildlife management objectives. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) ...

This ability has been handed down through natural selection, the study argues. Whether a human is hardwired to hunt or not, many Montana rifle hunters have been impatiently waiting 329 days for the ...