Opening Weekend Hunting Harvest Totals on Track in West-Central Montana

By AmmoLand Editor JE

USA--(Ammoland.com)- Opening weekend of the 2016 general hunting season resulted in an encouraging tally of harvested big game animals through the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) hunter check stations in west-central Montana.

The total harvest of 212 animals was identical to the harvest checked on the opening weekend in 2015, and was achieved with 10 percent fewer hunters afield.

Over the first two days of the season, 2,786 hunters stopped at the four check stations in west-central Montana, with 8 percent having harvested game.

Elk harvest was down at the Darby and Anaconda check stations, and identical to last year at the Bonner station, where biologists reported 21 elk.

White-tailed deer harvest continued its upward trend from recent years, with the harvest of 79 whitetails through Bonner leading the way, up 41 percent from 2015 and 55 percent above the five-year average.

Mule deer harvest has been relatively low in west-central Montana over the past few years, …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand