Montana Outdoor Podcast

About Montana Outdoor Podcast

A weekly podcast covering the topics and people that make Montana’s Outdoors like no other place in the world.

Publisher

Downrigger Dale

Category

leisure · sports · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Jan 2023

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

192 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026

   The Search Continues. Plus Strange and Dangerous Bear Behavior. Are People Causing This?

   Send us Fan Mail There are plenty of elk in Montana’s Region 5. So why can they be so darn hard to hunt? That is just one of the surprises Downrigger Dale uncovers in the latest stop in the Montana Outdoor Podcast’s Search for a Better Hunt: 2026 Montana Regional Hunting Forecast. This week Rigger heads to south-central Montana and sits down with longtime Montana FWP Wildlife Biologist Shawn Stewart. And when we say longtime, we mean it. Shawn has been studying wildlife in the Red Lodge and B...

2. 

   10 Oct 2026

   Inside Region 2: More Elk—and Access You Might Be Missing

   Send us Fan Mail More elk on the landscape doesn’t automatically mean more elk in the freezer. So what makes the difference? This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Downrigger Dale welcomes FWP Region 2 Access Manager Trenton Heisel for the next stop in **The Search for a Better Hunt**. They explore central-western Montana’s elk country, deer outlook, black bear, mountain grouse opportunities, and the details hunters should check before heading out. Why does the Upper Clark Fork keep ...

3. 

   4 Oct 2026

   The Search Continues. Is Better Hunt in Region 7. Find Out Now.

   Send us Fan Mail When many Montana hunters think about Region 7, they simply think "southeast Montana." But according to Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 7 Wildlife Manager Brett Dorak, that huge region may offer more opportunity this fall than many hunters realize. In this week's Montana Outdoor Podcast, Brett joins your host Downrigger Dale and breaks down where hunters are seeing encouraging population trends, which species are doing especially well, and what regulation chan...

Who has been a guest on Montana Outdoor Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Megan Buecking
• Cody Nagel
• Steve Darlinton
• Kylie Kembel
• Brian Wakeling

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

3,280,131

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

18 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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