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Montana · Antelope · District 338

Montana antelope licence 338-00

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 300 on 338-00 in 2013 and drew 299, so 1 went undrawn. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 9 resident landowner applicants put it first and 9 drew, 100.00%; 27 nonresident applicants put it first and 9 drew, 33.33%; 525 resident applicants put it first and 281 drew, 53.52%.

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
2013Nonresident3027933.33%140
2013Resident30052528153.52%2070
2013Nonresident landowner3000———
2013Resident landowner4599100.00%——
2012Nonresident30271866.67%140
2012Resident30050027555.00%2070
2012Nonresident landowner3000———
2012Resident landowner4577100.00%——
2011Nonresident40513772.55%140
2011Resident40058435861.30%1680
2011Nonresident landowner4000———
2011Resident landowner6055100.00%——
2010Nonresident50484797.92%120
2010Resident50047344093.02%1270
2010Nonresident landowner5011100.00%——
2010Resident landowner751111100.00%——
2009Nonresident50874956.32%110
2009Resident50053644482.84%1170
2009Nonresident landowner5011100.00%——
2009Resident landowner7566100.00%——
2008Nonresident40543972.22%130
2008Resident40044735679.64%950
2008Nonresident landowner4011100.00%——
2008Resident landowner6044100.00%——
2007Nonresident40483879.17%120
2007Resident40038835390.98%810
2007Nonresident landowner4011100.00%——
2007Resident landowner6088100.00%——
2006Nonresident40342882.35%70
2006Resident40040735988.21%690
2006Nonresident landowner4011100.00%——
2006Resident landowner601212100.00%——

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
2013Nonresident07114.29%
2013Nonresident111100.00%
2013Nonresidentnot stated19736.84%
2013Resident01899650.79%
2013Resident1473778.72%
2013Resident2161487.50%
2013Resident511100.00%
2013Residentnot stated27313449.08%
2013Resident landowner022100.00%
2013Resident landownernot stated77100.00%
2012Nonresident04375.00%
2012Nonresident144100.00%
2012Nonresidentnot stated191157.89%
2012Resident01528656.58%
2012Resident1533973.58%
2012Resident299100.00%
2012Resident311100.00%
2012Residentnot stated28514049.12%
2012Resident landowner011100.00%
2012Resident landownernot stated66100.00%
2011Nonresident015960.00%
2011Nonresident133100.00%
2011Nonresident211100.00%
2011Nonresidentnot stated322475.00%
2011Resident022312254.71%
2011Resident1251872.00%
2011Resident233100.00%
2011Residentnot stated33321564.56%
2011Resident landownernot stated55100.00%
2010Nonresident01010100.00%
2010Nonresident11111100.00%
2010Nonresidentnot stated272696.30%
2010Resident013913294.96%
2010Resident12323100.00%
2010Residentnot stated31228691.67%
2010Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2010Resident landownernot stated1111100.00%
2009Nonresident0321443.75%
2009Nonresident14250.00%
2009Nonresidentnot stated513364.71%
2009Resident018415785.33%
2009Resident13232100.00%
2009Resident244100.00%
2009Residentnot stated31625179.43%
2009Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2009Resident landownernot stated66100.00%
2008Nonresident0231878.26%
2008Nonresidentnot stated312167.74%
2008Resident017313779.19%
2008Resident1141285.71%
2008Resident411100.00%
2008Residentnot stated25920679.54%
2008Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2008Resident landownernot stated44100.00%
2007Nonresident01010100.00%
2007Nonresident155100.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated332369.70%
2007Resident015714089.17%
2007Resident11717100.00%
2007Resident211100.00%
2007Residentnot stated21319591.55%
2007Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2007Resident landowner011100.00%
2007Resident landownernot stated77100.00%
2006Nonresident08675.00%
2006Nonresident122100.00%
2006Nonresidentnot stated242083.33%
2006Resident012812093.75%
2006Resident155100.00%
2006Resident244100.00%
2006Residentnot stated27023085.19%
2006Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2006Resident landownernot stated1212100.00%

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.