Hello all. This coming fall, provided I draw a deer tag, I'm headed to western Montana to do a little hunting. My cousin just moved there this past fall. He and his wife moved an hour north of Missoula to a little town called Seeley Lake.

My plan is to go out in September. My question, and you natives might get a giggle out of this, is about the grizzlies in the area. I'm going out with a bow.Should I expect to see or have many bears around me? Is it legal to carry a pistol during bow season? Maybe I'm being overly cautious, but being from PA, we don't have to worry about such critters. Just black bears that are more afraid of us that we are of them.

On another note, how is the hunting in this area? I'm going more for the sake of going and experiencing the west for the first time so I"m not getting my hopes up.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.