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Experts offer tips for bighorn sheep hunters and wannabe hunters

This year 331 lucky hunters, 294 residents and 37 nonresidents, drew a Montana bighorn sheep license. Bighorn hunting season opened Sept. 15, in all but a few districts in the state. The season ends Dec. 1.

"Take it from someone who has been waiting 35 years, this is a hunting experience that needs to be savored," said Gary Olson, a biologist with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks for 25 years. Olson works with bighorn sheep in the Teton River area and has applied for 35 years for a bighorn hunting license.

Another FWP biologist, Bill Semmens, works in the Anaconda area and...

 

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