After posting his "manifesto" on Facebook outlining plans for a revenge-fueled murder spree targeted at law enforcement officers, Christopher Dorner had been a fugitive in the California’s San Bernardino National Forest for nearly a week. He had already killed three people, and he would add one more murder to that tally before his reign of terror came to an end. 

On February 12, Dorner was spotted by law enforcement officers as he drove a stolen car behind a pair of school buses on State Route 38. The officers lost track of that vehicle, but they didn’t lose track of Dorner. Knowing the mountain roads well, they found him again as he passed them in yet another stolen vehicle, this one a white pickup.

When Dorner saw the officers, he opened fire spraying bullets through the front windshield and driver’s door window. Several bullets pierced the vehicle’s cabin, including one that lodged in a seat just 10 inches from the driver’s head.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation released a report yesterday detailing just how heavily hunting impacts the economy. The report, which collected data through 2011, unveiled some interesting facts: There's been a 9 percent increase in hunter participation from 2006 to 2011 but overall hunting-related expenditures have grown by 55 percent.

The expenditure data for the report were obtained from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, conducted every five years with help from the U.S. Census Bureau. Hunters’ expenditures were then analyzed with the IMPLAN economic model to develop estimates of jobs, tax revenues, and other economic measures, according to the NSSF.

With Montana's Legislature back in full swing, policy makers have taken up the explosive issue of … lighted arrow nocks. Only in Montana right?

House Bill 26, sponsored by Rep. Ted Washburn, R-Bozeman, would prohibit the state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission from barring lighted nocks, as it does now, according to the Independent Record.

Over the last few days a barrage of editorials from Big Sky state newspapers have debated whether or not Montana bowhunters should be allowed to use the technology. And, one of the most outspoken opponents of the bill is the Montana Bow Hunters Association.

Minnesota is on pace to be moose free in 20 years and no one knows why, according to a recent editorial by the Star Tribune.

The state’s moose population has fallen dramatically in the past few years with the estimated population of 4,200 animals standing at almost half of what it was in 2006. These low numbers are due in part to adult bulls dropping dead for no apparent reason and poor calf survival rates.