The hunting is good in southwest Montana, but the elk herds roaming open ranges of state land in a section of Centennial Valley southeast of Dillon aren't just good hunting — they're a source of ...

Stunned, I picked up my phone and called my best friend and elk hunting partner, Lou Mocniak, to inform him that we’d be headed to Montana in September. Lou has a lot more elk hunting experience than ...

The elk harvest in southwest Montana remained steady during the third and fourth weeks of the general big game season, with hunter numbers region-wide well above the three-year average, according to ...

The hunting is good in southwest Montana, but the elk herds roaming open ranges of state land in a section of Centennial Valley southeast of Dillon aren’t just good hunting — they’re a source of ...

Most check stations in southwest Montana saw high numbers of elk come through compared to other years on the fifth weekend of the hunting season. Biologists report elk moving to winter range and ...

Elk hunting has always been romanticized for us Easterners. As a kid growing up in Pennsylvania I remember watching hundreds of different elk hunts on the Outdoor Channel that were full of screaming ...

Hunting opportunities for a variety of wildlife are plentiful in southwestern Montana. Hunters should remember that crowding will occur on easily accessible public lands, and wildlife may be visibly ...

You won't find a more impressive big game animal than a bugling bull elk tending a harem of cows during the heart of the September elk rut. Add to that vision the type of awe-inspiring ...

This week and next I will write about my most anticipated, expensive and in some ways, challenging trip of my life. I would head west with my golden retrievers to southwest Montana, pulling a ...

Perched on my bookcase is a photo of me and the late Norman Strung that was taken in 1973. We are sitting in the sunlight on the deck of his cabin. Prior to this, we had been hunting elk for two solid ...

So McKean cautioned that elk hunters should not rush to buy an elk license just for northeastern Montana's hunting districts. He said FWP envisions hunters buying an elk license just in case they see ...