(GREAT FALLS) – Entering the final week of the 2025 general season, an above-average deer harvest is making up for a below-average elk harvest at the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks check station in Augusta.
Through Sunday, Nov. 23, more than 2,200 hunters have visited the check station, approximately four percent below the ten-year average, but seven percent above this same point of the season last year. Overall hunter harvest success for deer and elk remains near average with 23 percent of hunters reporting harvested animals.
The total harvest for all big game animals is six percent below both average and last year at this time. A total of 541 big game have been checked so far this season, 97% of which are deer and elk. Other big game animals checked have included pronghorn, black bear, wolf, mountain lion, bighorn sheep, and mountain goat.
The general deer and elk seasons run through Sunday, Nov. 30th.
