Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Thirty-one years ago, 1,321 mule deer were shot by hunters in Hunting District 502 — a record ...

The trip down the mountain. Fill a 12-foot trailer and your truck bed with an atv and a thousand pounds of other gear and go ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks is reporting harvest totals in west-central Montana that are slightly up from last season ...

MISSOULA — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) reports that after three weekends of big game general hunting season, hunter ...

Montana’s chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers today announced that it raised a record $56,620 for mule deer conservation by raffling a single statewide deer tag. The winner is a Washington State ...

Mule deer populations in Eastern Montana are showing strong signs of recovery based on post-hunting-season surveys this winter. “The basic indication is that things are looking pretty good,” said John ...

In response to struggling mule deer populations in southeastern Montana, hunting licenses have been significantly reduced by Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Recent surveys indicate the population there is 48% ...

If you’ve never been mule deer hunting on the prairie or in the mountains, then you should start making a plan to do it right now. Why? You know those dreams in your head of wide, forking antlers ...

The 2025 big game general hunting season began Oct. 25, and hunters across western and central Montana saw mixed weather ...

I went to the Sonora Desert to hunt giant mule deer. The deer were bigger, and the tracking conditions tougher, than I could have imagined.