Oh boy this is a “good un” as Rigger likes to say! This week your host Downrigger Dale talks with Wildlife Manager Cory Loecker from Region 4 in north central Montana. In this podcast Rigger and Cory will give you all kinds of great info on where to find the game you are looking in Region 4. Some of you may not know this but Region 4 has all 10 of the big game species you can hunt in Montana, so there was lots for Rigger to cover with Cory and yes there were some surprises. So listen close and you will get some nuggets of info that should help you have success when hunting in Region 4. If you want watch the podcast you can do that when you click here to watch. From all of us here at the Montana Outdoor Podcast and the Montana Outdoor Radio Show have a safe, fun and above all productive hunting season!
Links:
Click below to learn more about Region 4.
https://fwp.mt.gov/aboutfwp/regions/region4
Click below to get a copy of Region 4’s FWP 2025 Hunting Forecast.
https://fwp.mt.gov/homepage/news/2025/aug/0820-region-4-bg-forecast
Also click below for the Statewide Upland Game Bird Hunting Forecast.
https://fwp.mt.gov/homepage/news/2025/aug/0820-ugb-forecast
To go to the Block Management page for Region 4 click below.
https://fwp.mt.gov/hunt/access/blockmanagement/region-4
Head on over to Region 4’s Facebook Page by clicking below.
https://www.facebook.com/MontanaFWP.R4/
Click below to access the FWP Hunt Planner.
https://fwp.mt.gov/gis/maps/huntPlanner/?species=muledeer&showOwn=true&showRef=true
Click here for more info about the “It’s Up to Us” program and to take quiz to automatically entered to win all kinds of prizes! And thank a landowner there as well.
https://fwp.mt.gov/itsuptous
Click below to get a digital copy of any hunting regulations for any species in Montana! Always handy if you download it to your phone that way you have whether you have cell service or not!
https://fwp.mt.gov/hunt/regulations
Questions? See below to get the email for Cory Loecker in Region 4.
cloecker@mt.gov
See below to email your buddy Downrigger Dale!
Downrigger@MontanaOutdoor.com
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