This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale starts his annual series of Hunt Preview Podcasts. That’s when he talks to Wildlife Managers and other folks with Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks to find out what the hunting will be like in each of the 7 hunting Regions across Montana. In this first podcast in the series Rigger talks with Scott Thompson, Wildlife Manager for Region 6 located in northeast Montana. When you click here to watch or here to listen you will be able to find out not only what the hunting opportunities are in Region 6, you’ll get a whole lot more, from how the populations of Elk, Mule Deer, Whitetails, and more are doing, in fact, wait until you here about the Pronghorn, aka Antelope population numbers. We think that might shock you! Well, actually there are likely several things that may surprise you in this one! Rigger’s guest Scott will also give you some ideas of which hunting districts might be the best to find those critters as well as some great information about Upland Gamebirds and Waterfowl! On top of all that when you click here to watch or here to listen you will also get great information about the terrain, the amount of private land and public land hunting opportunities and the list goes on and on. So, if you are planning on hunting in Region 6 this year or just ever wondered if that part of Montana might be a good place for you to try for the first time or heck, maybe you are just curious, this is the absolute perfect Podcast for you! So go ahead click here to watch the Region 6 Hunt Preview Podcast or click here to listen!
Links:
- To learn more about Hunting Region 6 click here. Be sure a scroll all the way to down for info on all species in the region.
- Click here for some hunt planning tools!
- Click here for the 2025 Hunting Forecast for Region 6.
- How about a Hunt forecast for Upland Game Birds and Waterfowl? Click here for that!
- Click here to send an email to Region 6 Wildlife Manager Scott Thompson.
- As always good old Rigger is standing by to answer your questions and he would love to find out what you thought of this podcast, click here to do that.
