The opening weekend of the general hunting season saw better harvest success than last year in west central Montana. In the Bitterroot, it was slightly lower.
At the Darby check station this past weekend, 1,050 hunters checked through, 27 less than last year...
The Darby hunters check station, operated by the Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks, noted a weekend elk harvest of 136 for the season, which is down about four percent from last year.
With less than a week left in the general hunting season, the deer harvest at Darby was down 25 percent for mule deer, at 27, and up 11 percent for whitetail deer at 89 animals...