An elk hunt offers one of the highest degrees of difficulty for archery hunters. Not only do you have to make a good shot, but you have to be fit both physically and mentally. That challenge of a DIY ...

Even so, some suggest that FWP would diminish its wildlife reputation by returning to custom hunts. Custom hunts are usually three-day cow-elk hunts that occur after, and sometimes before, the ...

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 ...

Got elk? Montana does, and thousands of elk hunters are already planning for the hunt. Montana’s general elk-hunting season opens Oct. 21. “Hunters are going to see very healthy populations of elk and ...

A Montana bow hunter has taken what may turn out to be a world-record elk, according to the clubs that keep the record books.

In little more than a century Montana’s elk herd has grown from near extinction to a population that now greatly exceeds wildlife management objectives. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) ...

As much as any species, wild free-roaming elk symbolize the wealth of Montana’s wildland and wildlife habitats. Of the 28 U.S. states that currently host resident free-roaming elk populations, only ...