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. Â
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.
