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Montana · Antelope · District 318

Montana antelope licence 318-00

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 350 on 318-00 in 2013 and drew 348, so 2 went undrawn. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 14 resident landowner applicants put it first and 14 drew, 100.00%; 56 nonresident applicants put it first and 14 drew, 25.00%; 1,107 resident applicants put it first and 320 drew, 28.91%.

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 8 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
2013Nonresident35561425.00%170
2013Resident3501,10732028.91%4810
2013Nonresident landowner4500———
2013Resident landowner681414100.00%——
2012Nonresident45672334.33%130
2012Resident4501,19841534.64%3420
2012Nonresident landowner4500———
2012Resident landowner681111100.00%——
2011Nonresident45642234.38%260
2011Resident4491,18841334.76%3980
2011Nonresident landowner4500———
2011Resident landowner681414100.00%——
2010Nonresident45852428.24%230
2010Resident4501,05640938.73%3110
2010Nonresident landowner4500———
2010Resident landowner681616100.00%——
2009Nonresident45541731.48%230
2009Resident4501,01342341.76%2800
2009Nonresident landowner4511100.00%——
2009Resident landowner6899100.00%——
2008Nonresident45501938.00%300
2008Resident45097141642.84%2170
2008Nonresident landowner4511100.00%——
2008Resident landowner681414100.00%——
2007Nonresident45572238.60%170
2007Resident45098341542.22%2680
2007Nonresident landowner4500———
2007Resident landowner671313100.00%——
2006Nonresident45672638.81%250
2006Resident45089241546.52%2530
2006Nonresident landowner4500———
2006Resident landowner6799100.00%——

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
2013Nonresident017635.29%
2013Nonresident19222.22%
2013Nonresident26350.00%
2013Nonresidentnot stated24312.50%
2013Resident041011127.07%
2013Resident12077134.30%
2013Resident2894651.69%
2013Resident3281450.00%
2013Resident44375.00%
2013Residentnot stated3717720.75%
2013Resident landowner022100.00%
2013Resident landowner122100.00%
2013Resident landownernot stated1010100.00%
2012Nonresident026311.54%
2012Nonresident111436.36%
2012Nonresident26466.67%
2012Nonresident311100.00%
2012Nonresidentnot stated231147.83%
2012Resident040710826.54%
2012Resident126713149.06%
2012Resident2825263.41%
2012Resident3262284.62%
2012Resident422100.00%
2012Residentnot stated41510124.34%
2012Resident landowner055100.00%
2012Resident landownernot stated66100.00%
2011Nonresident026830.77%
2011Nonresident111654.55%
2011Nonresident255100.00%
2011Nonresidentnot stated22313.64%
2011Resident046713629.12%
2011Resident121010349.05%
2011Resident2642945.31%
2011Resident3161593.75%
2011Resident45480.00%
2011Residentnot stated42612629.58%
2011Resident landowner066100.00%
2011Resident landowner311100.00%
2011Resident landownernot stated77100.00%
2010Nonresident0411229.27%
2010Nonresident18225.00%
2010Nonresident23266.67%
2010Nonresidentnot stated33824.24%
2010Resident038614337.05%
2010Resident11839350.82%
2010Resident2503366.00%
2010Resident3181372.22%
2010Resident411100.00%
2010Residentnot stated41912730.31%
2010Resident landowner044100.00%
2010Resident landownernot stated1212100.00%
2009Nonresident025936.00%
2009Nonresident19555.56%
2009Nonresident2100.00%
2009Nonresidentnot stated19315.79%
2009Resident044216336.88%
2009Resident117210762.21%
2009Resident2623658.06%
2009Resident39888.89%
2009Resident411100.00%
2009Residentnot stated32710833.03%
2009Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2009Resident landowner055100.00%
2009Resident landowner111100.00%
2009Resident landownernot stated33100.00%
2008Nonresident021942.86%
2008Nonresident111872.73%
2008Nonresidentnot stated18211.11%
2008Resident039215038.27%
2008Resident117710358.19%
2008Resident2483266.67%
2008Resident33266.67%
2008Residentnot stated35112936.75%
2008Nonresident landowner011100.00%
2008Resident landowner033100.00%
2008Resident landownernot stated1111100.00%
2007Nonresident027933.33%
2007Nonresident14250.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated261142.31%
2007Resident042215937.68%
2007Resident11558655.48%
2007Resident2443784.09%
2007Resident35480.00%
2007Resident433100.00%
2007Residentnot stated35412635.59%
2007Resident landowner033100.00%
2007Resident landowner111100.00%
2007Resident landownernot stated99100.00%
2006Nonresident028725.00%
2006Nonresident155100.00%
2006Nonresidentnot stated341441.18%
2006Resident036115342.38%
2006Resident11609559.38%
2006Resident2242291.67%
2006Resident37685.71%
2006Residentnot stated34013940.88%
2006Resident landowner033100.00%
2006Resident landownernot stated66100.00%

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.