Montana Outdoors: Some good, some bad news about antelope opener (Billings Gazette)
The general antelope season, which opens next Sunday, has all the appearance of offering a doughnut of opportunities for hunters across Eastern Montana. If your hunting district for the Oct. 12 opener lies around the edges of the doughnut, things are ...
GazOutdoors poll: What about muddy roads? (Billings Gazette)
Gasoline prices continue to drop - hooray! - but hunters traveling to hunt antelope next weekend still have a considerable investment in getting to their hunting areas for the opener. You have fuel costs, perhaps camp costs, motel costs, restaurant co ...
A Return to Hunting (Flathead Beacon)
It has been three years since I shot and killed an animal. My dad still makes sure my freezer is mostly full of meat: venison, elk, antelope and a variety of feathered creatures. But my own hunting has been nonexistent. I like the meat and I always loved the hunt, but over time I grew to not enjoy the kill. Perhaps college softened me or maybe I never really had it in me to begin with. With ...
Montana Outdoors: No, you can't just cross the fence (Billings Gazette)
Never beforehas it been so important for big-game hunters to know not just where they're standing themselves when out in the field, but also to know the land ownership patterns of the areas around them. The reality is that the legal requirement of ha ...
Don Steese's Outdoor Perspectives column: His hunting is for the birds (The Daily Item)
As you read this I'll be in the tiny town of Radville, Saskatchewan. That's about 60 miles north of the Montana-North Dakota border; about a three-day drive from the Susquehanna Valley.
Grand Teton to open elk hunt (Billings Gazette)
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK - Grand Teton National Park expects to host about 1,000 elk hunters in coming weeks.
Wyoming briefs (Casper Star-Tribune)
Barrasso knocks feds on wolves WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Barrasso says the federal government double-crossed the state of Wyoming in deciding to reverse its decision to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list.
Just for kids: Soon, the big flights of sandhills will come (Billings Gazette)
I heard a sandhill crane in the Yellowstone River valley the other day. He was flying somewhere but may have been too low to see behind the trees. But see him or not, his call was unmistakable. There's no other sound like the rattly, sort-of-off-key g ...
Sans wheels, rifle hunting in the Bob can be a hassle (Montana Kaimin)
Rifle hunters willing to brave rugged sections of the Bob Marshall wilderness northeast of Seeley Lake can hunt deer and elk there as of Sept. 15, provided they pack out the carcass through miles of wilderness with no vehicle access. That means shooting a 180-pound trophy equals one tough afternoon. “The problem is transportation, you basically need a horse,” said UM student Mike Lilrose. ...
Montana Outdoors: No limit considered for Buffalo Bill walleyes (Billings Gazette)
Wyoming is beginning its battle with an illegal walleye transplant into the waters of Buffalo Bill Reservoir, near Cody, Wyo. Already, Game and Fish has been on the water trying to remove as many walleyes as they can find. Anglers have been alerted no ...