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Montana · Antelope · District 291

Montana antelope licence 291-00

How many people put this antelope licencefirst and how many of them drew it — year by year, separately for each of the four pools Montana draws, and separately at every bonus point level. Every figure comes from a Fish, Wildlife & Parks report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2013 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 5 on 291-00 in 2013 and drew 5 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 3 resident landowner applicants put it first and none of them drew; no nonresident applicant put it first; 116 resident applicants put it first and 5 drew, 4.31%.

This licence code stops appearing after 2013. FWP's 2026 reports do not carry it, and this site does not map a retired code onto a current one — the department renumbered its licence-type suffixes and has published nothing saying which old code became which new one. What is below is the record of the 6 years it was drawn.

Drawing pool

First-choice success rate, by pool and year

The rate is the first-choice applicants in a pool who drew, divided by the first-choice applicants in that pool. Both are exact integers FWP printed in the same row, and it is the measure the department's own drawing statistics tool publishes: "the percentage of 1st choice applicants that were successful". A dash means nobody in that pool applied, so the draw answered nothing — absent, not nought.
YearPoolPool capPut it firstDrew on first choiceFirst-choice success ratePut it 2nd or 3rdDrew on 2nd or 3rd
2013Nonresident000—00
2013Resident511654.31%540
2013Nonresident landowner000———
2013Resident landowner0300.00%——
2012Nonresident000—00
2012Resident511054.55%500
2012Nonresident landowner000———
2012Resident landowner0300.00%——
2011Nonresident000—00
2011Resident38833.41%550
2011Nonresident landowner000———
2011Resident landowner0600.00%——
2010Nonresident000—00
2010Resident38633.49%330
2010Nonresident landowner000———
2010Resident landowner0500.00%——
2009Nonresident000—00
2009Resident37034.29%400
2009Nonresident landowner000———
2009Resident landowner0600.00%——
2008Nonresident000—00
2008Resident36734.48%330
2008Nonresident landowner000———
2008Resident landowner0700.00%——

Pool cap is FWP's own QTA column, and it is a ceiling rather than an allocation. The resident regular cap equals the overall quota; the nonresident caps are ten per cent of it and cover landowner and regular nonresidents together; the resident landowner cap is fifteen per cent. The department states plainly that the ceiling is not a floor: "although the nonresident quotas are set at 10%, that entire quota may not be drawn by nonresidents", and that if every resident applicant draws, nonresidents may go over ten per cent.

Landowner rows are a different drawing, not a subset of the one below them.Landowner preference is the first stage, worth up to fifteen per cent of the quota to resident landowners, and its applicants are counted apart from the regular pool throughout. FWP publishes the landowner pools at first choice only, which is why their second and third columns are dashes rather than noughts.

Draw rate at each bonus point level

One row per bonus point level per pool per year, exactly as FWP's Detailed Bonus Point report publishes it. The rate is that level's successes divided by its applications — both exact integers in the same printed row.
YearPoolBonus pointsAppliedDrewDrew at this level
2013Resident03512.86%
2013Resident11616.25%
2013Resident2500.00%
2013Resident313323.08%
2013Resident4400.00%
2013Resident5900.00%
2013Resident6100.00%
2013Resident7100.00%
2013Residentnot stated2900.00%
2013Resident landowner5100.00%
2013Resident landowner7100.00%
2013Resident landownernot stated100.00%
2012Resident03239.38%
2012Resident11300.00%
2012Resident21500.00%
2012Resident36116.67%
2012Resident41317.69%
2012Resident6100.00%
2012Residentnot stated2700.00%
2012Resident landowner4100.00%
2012Resident landownernot stated200.00%
2011Resident01700.00%
2011Resident11900.00%
2011Resident210110.00%
2011Resident31218.33%
2011Resident42150.00%
2011Residentnot stated2200.00%
2011Resident landowner3200.00%
2011Resident landowner6100.00%
2011Resident landownernot stated300.00%
2010Resident03226.25%
2010Resident11700.00%
2010Resident21000.00%
2010Resident3200.00%
2010Resident4100.00%
2010Resident5100.00%
2010Residentnot stated1815.56%
2010Resident landowner0100.00%
2010Resident landowner1100.00%
2010Resident landowner2100.00%
2010Resident landownernot stated200.00%
2009Resident02100.00%
2009Resident11300.00%
2009Resident2300.00%
2009Resident3100.00%
2009Residentnot stated26311.54%
2009Resident landowner0100.00%
2009Resident landowner1200.00%
2009Resident landownernot stated300.00%
2008Resident03525.71%
2008Resident1400.00%
2008Resident2200.00%
2008Residentnot stated1915.26%
2008Resident landowner0200.00%
2008Resident landowner3100.00%
2008Resident landownernot stated400.00%

No bonus point level guarantees a licence in Montana, and this page does not publish one. FWP squares your bonus points and adds them to your current application as extra chances — three points give ten chances, ten points give a hundred and one — so the drawing is a weighted lottery and not a queue. More points is better odds every time, and a place in line never.

Not stated is FWP's own blank cell, and it is not the same as nought. The department's reports frequently carry both a nought-point row and a blank one for the same pool in the same year, with different application counts, and both are inside the district total it prints. FWP does not say what separates them, so they are shown apart rather than added together into a "no points" figure it never published.

Sources for this licence

Other licences in these districts

Bonus points are one of Montana's two point systems and the only one that applies here. The other, preference points, exists on nonresident combination licences alone and works in the opposite way. See how these numbers are produced and checked, or the Montana application deadlines.