On Tuesday, June 23rd, Leaders from the Montana Chapter of BHA hosted an outdoor BHA member meeting and state lands cleanup at a site targeted as a potential public shooting range. At this time, the specific DNRC parcel is open to recreational shooting, but rogue shooters and users who don't clean up after themselves are putting the future public use of this property at risk. In an attempt of goodwill and to send a message to those shortsighted target shooters, BHA members once again elected ...

This week on Friday Night Ties we’re joined by guide and BHA North American Board Member, Hilary Hutcheson, who shows us how to tie her version of the “Turk’s Tarantula” that she calls the “White Water Skrull”. For those of you not up to speed on your Marvel Comics characters, Skrulls are extraterrestrial shapeshifters. They take on characteristics best suited to whatever environment they happen to be in. Hilary’s name for the pattern is fitting. This particular fly can be drifted like a ...

By Laura Lundquist - June 17, 2020 - Originally posted in the Missoula Current   With U.S. Senate passage of a significant public lands bill, it’s likely that the Land and Water Conservation Fund will finally receive full funding while other money will help reduce the maintenance backlog on federal lands. On Wednesday, Montanans celebrated a second conservation victory in as many days when the U.S. Senate passed the Great American Outdoors Act on a bipartisan vote of 73-25. The Act appeared ...

By Laura Lundquist - June 17, 2020 - Originally published in the Missoula Current  An appeals court added one more chapter to a 38-year struggle when it ruled against an oil company that’s demanding to drill in the Badger-Two Medicine, an area along the Northern Continental Divide that is sacred to the Blackfeet Nation. On Tuesday, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals overturned a federal district judge who ruled in September 2018 that Louisiana-based Solonex LLC should be allowed to ...

Iowa-based Phil Bourjaily is America’s shotgunner and one of North America’s foremost experts on shotguns and shooting. In addition to writing a monthly column – for nearly three decades – for Field & Stream, where he is shotguns editor, Phil has authored Field & Stream’s The Total Gun Manual (with fellow firearms writer David Petzal), Shotgun Guide, and other books. But he is also a writer’s writer, a dedicated coach of youth trap and skeet teams, and a hunter who spends countless days ...