
Glassing · Wolf
Darby, Montana
Steel Creek Outfitters’ dedicated winter wolf hunt takes hunters into Southwest Montana when snow makes the landscape—and the animals moving through it—easier to read. These five-day guided hunts are built for hunters prepared for genuine winter conditions, with trucks and snowmobiles helping guides cover large areas while searching for fresh wolf activity. Temperatures can range from relatively mild winter days to well below zero. It’s a hunt built around persistence, tracking, glassing, and trying to outmaneuver one of North America’s most difficult predators.
This trip is guided by
Steel Creek Outfitters

Michael Richie
Owner & Guide
Winter changes the mountains.
Snow covers roads and ridges, temperatures fall, and every fresh track across an untouched slope tells you that something moved through before you.
That is the setting for Steel Creek Outfitters’ dedicated wolf hunt.
Unlike the wolf opportunities that can come during fall elk season, this trip is built specifically around pursuing wolves through Montana’s winter landscape.
Trucks and snowmobiles allow guides to cover country and search for fresh tracks and signs of wolf activity. From there, the hunt becomes a game of trying to determine where the animals are headed and how to get into position before they disappear into another drainage.
Wolf hunting rewards persistence.
These animals can cover enormous distances in a short period of time, and hours of seemingly empty country can change instantly when a fresh set of tracks appears or wolves are spotted moving across a distant slope.
Conditions can be serious. Steel Creek advises hunters to prepare for temperatures ranging from relatively mild winter weather down to approximately 20 degrees below zero.
For hunters attracted to difficult hunts rather than predictable ones, that challenge is exactly the point: winter Montana, huge country, and five days devoted to trying to outthink one of the most elusive predators in North America.
Pricing
5-Day, 1 Hunter / 1 Guide — $4,550
5-Day, 2 Hunters / 1 Guide — $3,250 per hunter
Non-Hunter — $700
All prices are per person, all deposits are non-refundable unless not drawn for tags. If not drawn there will be a 25% booking fee non-refundable.
$50 of the hunt cost will be put towards HADF through MOGA.
Wolf
Rifle
Glassing, Spot & Stalk
Wilderness / backcountry
Free-range (fair chase)
Opportunity hunt
Success is hunter dependent.
Not included
Not included
Approximate area, not an exact location.
Steel Creek Outfitters
Operating since 2017
Steel Creek Outfitters is a family-run Montana operation owned by Michael and Andrea Richie. Michael is a third-generation guide and outfitter who grew up hunting and working in the mountains of Montana and Idaho, began guiding professionally in 2007, and comes from a family outfitting tradition that reaches back to the 1940s. Steel Creek Outfitters itself was established in 2017.

Michael Richie
Owner & Guide

Michael Richie
Owner & Guide
“Third-generation Montana outfitters offering horseback backcountry hunts, remote wall-tent camps, and hard-hunting predator adventures in Southwest Montana.”
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$3,250 / person
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Darby, Montana · 5 days · Up to 2
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