Your outdoor photos published May 2019
Fourteen-year-old Sam Burton, of Clancy, filled his deer tag outside of Big Sandy on Oct. 28, 2018, with this fine mule deer buck.
Twelve-year-old Grace Burton, of Clancy, shot this nontypical mule deer in the Big Sandy area on Oct. 28, 2018.
Plentywood hunter John Kemp Jr. shot this bull elk in the Missouri Breaks on Nov. 11, 2018, with the help of his 7-year-old grandson, Brayden Kemp, of Columbus. Kemp hunted three weekends with his sons, grandson, and brother-in-law. The bull green scored 410 4/8 nontypical. It will be the 8th largest taken in Montana if approved.
Ten-year-old hunter Beaudry Payne shot his first deer, a whitetail buck, near Dillon this past season.
Del Buckallew's trail camera posted west of Victor in the Bitterroot Valley captured this photo of a mountain lion carrying a marmot meal. According to Pam Buckallew the lion was also seen with two cubs.
A curious yellow-bellied marmot peers out of a drain pipe it had crawled into at the approach of a vehicle. There are two kinds of marmot that live in Montana. The other is the hoary marmot, which is found only in the northwest corner of the state.
