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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve hunted elk on public ground across the West for 25 years. I’ve made incredible memories, learned a lot, and punched more tags than I deserve. But I’ve also seen a lot change over that quarter ...

Elk are big. Elk are tough as hell. And elk live in the great wide open of the West. Those three things alone should give you a pretty good idea of what you need in a good elk cartridge. It should be ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — General big game hunting season starts this Saturday in Montana. The five-week deer and elk rifle season runs from Oct. 23 to Nov. 28. The youth deer hunt allows ages 12-15 to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Montana rifle elk season opener was one to remember. At least as memorable as a hunt can be without filling my tag. After all the prep and months of waiting for the day to come, it kind of snuck ...