Hunting

September marks the beginning of the long-awaited hunting seasons in Montana. In fact, several seasons are already underway.

The wolf hunting debate continues. It drives me insane to hear the amount of people who try to argue the topic with big words and statistics. The pro wolf hunting and anti wolf hunting folks around the nation are itching for a fight. Jason Maxwell is taking a stand, and doing what he can to support his cause.

Just in case everyone in Missoula hasn’t heard yet, my husband drew a mountain goat tag. I’m not sure how there could possibly be anyone left in this town who hasn’t heard, as he has been on the phone nonstop since he found out.

My husband is a born and bred true Montanan. He loves and lives to fish, hunt, hike and enjoy the outdoors. During our married life, I have learned just how deep his obsession goes with this beautiful place we are lucky enough to call home.

If you have a child that is 11 years of age or older, they are eligible to take the hunter education course that is required by the state in order to purchase a hunting license. Due to a law passed in 2003, all people born after the January 1, 1985 must show a certificate of completion for this course in order to get their license.

  Does anyone else live in a house filled with dead animals? I’m sure that I can’t be the only one, given the fact that hunting and fishing are ways of life around here. In my kitchen alone there is an elk head, a moose head, 15 deer shed and a pot rack made from elk sheds. My living room is even worse, consisting of two antelope heads, three elk sheds, a duck, two deer heads, two fox hides, four

Check out the re-cap of statewide hunting and fishing reports from our friends at the Montana Outdoor Radio Show.

Numbers continue to climb in the Montana wolf harvest. Despite the controversy, Montanans are taking the wolf issue into their own hands and slowly chipping away at the population.

The long and short of it is yes. Cats are the worst kind of killers – serial killers. They kill over and over and usually with the same M.O. According to a report put together by scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service, it was estimated that cats in the United States (both domestic and feral) kill 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a

Do the cold January conditions got you down? Maybe you should take the advice from the migratory ducks and other waterfowl, and fly south. If you are having an itch for an extreme hunting adventure, you need to sharpen your machetes and bust out the cargo shorts and head to Florida...

Missoula brewery, Big Sky brewing, recently posted a picture on their Facebook fan page of a female employee posing for her successful mountain lion hunt. The reaction from fans of the brewery were not what they would have expected. With a number of people calling for a boycott of the brewery.

I have always dreamnt of a white elk as being a mythical creature, like the Indians do with white buffalo. My dad has told stories of seeing an albino elk while scouting in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. I did not know that there is an actual elk that is bred to be white.