Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. With a fiery burst and cloud of black smoke, Montana’s first heritage muzzleloader hunt is set to ...

Traditional muzzleloader hunters would have a special nine-day season under a bill from a Belgrade lawmaker. Republican Rep. Caleb Hinkle’s House Bill 242 would institute a traditional muzzleloader ...

Traditional muzzleloader hunters will have a new nine-day deer and elk season under a bill nearing passage in the Montana Legislature. The Senate voted to give initial approval Tuesday to House Bill ...

While the general rifle season is now closed, traditional muzzleloader enthusiasts will have a season of their own starting in less than two weeks. The nine-day season muzzleloader heritage hunting ...

You couldn’t have rolled a pickup truck full of beer cans off the mountain and created more commotion than the bull elk was making. I’d heard him bugle, checked the wind, snuck closer, and ultimately ...

That’s just one of the challenges Strand and other hunters willingly accept when they choose to hunt with muzzleloaders — single-shot, black-powder, exposed-primer rifles — thereby opting for a far ...

While the state's regular firearm season attracts most of the attention each year, sportsmen and women have additional chances to hunt this winter in Michigan. Muzzleloader season is about to start.