The Lewistown Bowhunters Association has several events coming up. Their banquet will be March17th at the Trade Center in the Lewistown Fairgrounds. Festivities will begin at noon. The Foul Weather Shoot is at Hanging Tree Archery Range March 18th, registration begins at 8:00am. The Bonanza Shoot is also at the Hanging Tree Archery Range August 11th and 12th and registration will begin at 8:00am.
To help raise money for 2018 the Montana Bowhunters Association is raffling off a new 2018 Honda ATV Rancher. Tickets are on sale now! Most board members have tickets. This is a limited raffle sale of 1500 tickets. No more will be printed. The tickets are already going fast! We can take cash, check or Debit card. Absolutely no credit cards. In reference to Debit card transactions they must be processed through Jenn Schneider. Her phone number is 406-697-7668….
The Montana Bowhunters Association is proud to announce Gene Wensel as our 2018 MBA Convention keynote speaker. Gene was born in DuBois, Pennsylvania in 1944. He spent his early years in New York, Connecticut and Vermont before he went to college in Indiana. Gene moved to Montana with his wife Donna and their three children in the heart of the Bitterroot Valley near Hamilton, Montana, where he had a chiropractic practice until his retirement from that profession. Now he…
Tickets and additional info available online at www.jackcreekpreserve.org beginning June 5th, 2017. Raffles will close when limited number of tickets sells out or on July 30th. Drawing will occur on August 1st, 2017
Thanks to everyone who participated in this years Carp Safari shoot! The weather made for some challenging conditions but we had a great time. Hope to see you all back next year!
Here are a few pictures from the Youth Conservation Education Expo from May 13th. We had around 200 youth and they all came to the MBA booth and shot our bows. Members that showed up to help were Don, Bob, Tim, Jerry, Jacklyn. Beckie, Merri, and Marlon. With out their help this kind of event would not be the success it is. It is a lot of fun helping the youth get their first taste of shooting bows and…
If some of you recall last year’s hunting story, here in region 1, about the evidence on the bull I took last year of being confronted by predators. In that story because of not seeing or hearing them howl that I didn’t write of at least two animals running in on us from behind seconds after the bull crashed, and leaving as fast as they came in from catching our scent. I would be willing to bet the ranch it…
Fellow MBA Members, The Fish and Game Commissioners are currently considering an archery season for wolves that would run during the archery season while we are out there hunting elk and deer and would allow 20% of the wolf quota for any specific wolf unit to be taken with a bow. They are also considering increasing the wolf quotas to one of three choices – 153, 186, 216. The MBA is supporting the wolf archery season as well as…
Members- Elk shoulder seasons are proposed for 44 hunting districts for the 2016-17 hunting seasons. Shoulder seasons in some districts will open as early as August 15 and extend as late as February 15. Rifle hunters will be allowed to hunt on private land during archery season, and in some districts, they’ll also be allowed to hunt on public lands. We need your input to the Commission prior to January 22nd opposing shoulder seasons during archery season. Commissioner contact…
We have just received the link for everyone to have their chance to voice their opinion on the lighted nocks. FWP and the Commissioners need to hear from us the Bowhunters. For five years we have tossed this issue back an forth, it has caused much tension among our membership. Now is not the time to sit back and let others carry out what you might want or don’t want. It is up to us to send out our…
