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Montana · Antelope · District 321

Montana antelope licence 321-00

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 225 on 321-00 in 2013 and drew 225 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 10 resident landowner applicants put it first and 10 drew, 100.00%; 60 nonresident applicants put it first and 17 drew, 28.33%; 790 resident applicants put it first and 198 drew, 25.06%.

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
2013Nonresident22601728.33%540
2013Resident22579019825.06%4880
2013Nonresident landowner2200———
2013Resident landowner341010100.00%——
2012Nonresident22642234.38%400
2012Resident22575219025.27%4140
2012Nonresident landowner2200———
2012Resident landowner341313100.00%——
2011Nonresident2243920.93%420
2011Resident22467220330.21%4620
2011Nonresident landowner2200———
2011Resident landowner341212100.00%——
2010Nonresident22611524.59%330
2010Resident22558419433.22%2860
2010Nonresident landowner2200———
2010Resident landowner341616100.00%——
2009Nonresident1539717.95%370
2009Resident15062613721.88%3000
2009Nonresident landowner1500———
2009Resident landowner2355100.00%——
2008Nonresident15711115.49%480
2008Resident15065313220.21%2760
2008Nonresident landowner1500———
2008Resident landowner2377100.00%——
2007Nonresident15591423.73%260
2007Resident15063412519.72%2190
2007Nonresident landowner1500———
2007Resident landowner221111100.00%——
2006Nonresident15461532.61%130
2006Resident15058912421.05%2000
2006Nonresident landowner1500———
2006Resident landowner221111100.00%——

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
2013Nonresident021314.29%
2013Nonresident115853.33%
2013Nonresident33266.67%
2013Nonresident411100.00%
2013Nonresident511100.00%
2013Nonresidentnot stated19210.53%
2013Resident02674617.23%
2013Resident11464933.56%
2013Resident2673349.25%
2013Resident3261661.54%
2013Resident4131184.62%
2013Resident53266.67%
2013Residentnot stated2684115.30%
2013Resident landowner022100.00%
2013Resident landownernot stated88100.00%
2012Nonresident022731.82%
2012Nonresident12150.00%
2012Nonresident28450.00%
2012Nonresident32150.00%
2012Nonresident422100.00%
2012Nonresident511100.00%
2012Nonresidentnot stated27622.22%
2012Resident02865820.28%
2012Resident11334433.08%
2012Resident2652843.08%
2012Resident3271140.74%
2012Resident45120.00%
2012Resident54375.00%
2012Residentnot stated2324519.40%
2012Resident landowner022100.00%
2012Resident landownernot stated1111100.00%
2011Nonresident011327.27%
2011Nonresident1400.00%
2011Nonresident2200.00%
2011Nonresident33133.33%
2011Nonresident4100.00%
2011Nonresidentnot stated22522.73%
2011Resident02557629.80%
2011Resident11023837.25%
2011Resident2482245.83%
2011Resident313646.15%
2011Resident45240.00%
2011Resident511100.00%
2011Resident611100.00%
2011Residentnot stated2475723.08%
2011Resident landowner111100.00%
2011Resident landownernot stated1111100.00%
2010Nonresident016212.50%
2010Nonresident112325.00%
2010Nonresident2200.00%
2010Nonresident33133.33%
2010Nonresidentnot stated28932.14%
2010Resident01854423.78%
2010Resident11094137.61%
2010Resident2312374.19%
2010Resident3221777.27%
2010Resident477100.00%
2010Resident55480.00%
2010Residentnot stated2255825.78%
2010Resident landowner055100.00%
2010Resident landownernot stated1111100.00%
2009Nonresident01317.69%
2009Nonresident1300.00%
2009Nonresident2300.00%
2009Nonresident311100.00%
2009Nonresident411100.00%
2009Nonresident511100.00%
2009Nonresidentnot stated17317.65%
2009Resident02404619.17%
2009Resident1721926.39%
2009Resident2582136.21%
2009Resident3191157.89%
2009Resident48225.00%
2009Resident533100.00%
2009Residentnot stated2273615.86%
2009Resident landowner022100.00%
2009Resident landownernot stated33100.00%
2008Nonresident02727.41%
2008Nonresident18112.50%
2008Nonresident25480.00%
2008Nonresident3100.00%
2008Nonresident4100.00%
2008Nonresidentnot stated29413.79%
2008Resident01963618.37%
2008Resident11243024.19%
2008Resident2481735.42%
2008Resident3231147.83%
2008Resident47457.14%
2008Resident544100.00%
2008Residentnot stated2513011.95%
2008Resident landowner011100.00%
2008Resident landownernot stated66100.00%
2007Nonresident026623.08%
2007Nonresident110440.00%
2007Nonresident22150.00%
2007Nonresident3100.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated20315.00%
2007Resident02253214.22%
2007Resident1912729.67%
2007Resident2511733.33%
2007Resident3191052.63%
2007Resident48337.50%
2007Residentnot stated2403615.00%
2007Resident landownernot stated1111100.00%
2006Nonresident022940.91%
2006Nonresident13133.33%
2006Nonresident24375.00%
2006Nonresidentnot stated17211.76%
2006Resident02023014.85%
2006Resident11143127.19%
2006Resident2492040.82%
2006Resident314535.71%
2006Residentnot stated2103818.10%
2006Resident landowner022100.00%
2006Resident landowner111100.00%
2006Resident landownernot stated88100.00%

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.