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Montana · Antelope · District 420

Montana antelope licence 420-00

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 25 on 420-00 in 2013 and drew 25 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 4 resident landowner applicants put it first and 4 drew, 100.00%; 9 nonresident applicants put it first and 1 drew, 11.11%; 136 resident applicants put it first and 20 drew, 14.71%.

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
2013Nonresident29111.11%50
2013Resident251362014.71%890
2013Nonresident landowner200———
2013Resident landowner444100.00%——
2012Nonresident215213.33%200
2012Resident251531912.42%760
2012Nonresident landowner200———
2012Resident landowner444100.00%——
2011Nonresident512325.00%190
2011Resident501853921.08%1460
2011Nonresident landowner500———
2011Resident landowner89888.89%——
2010Nonresident51900.00%150
2010Resident502214219.00%1740
2010Nonresident landowner511100.00%——
2010Resident landowner89777.78%——
2009Nonresident529310.34%470
2009Resident503193912.23%1400
2009Nonresident landowner511100.00%——
2009Resident landowner88787.50%——
2008Nonresident20521834.62%420
2008Resident20035817348.32%580
2008Nonresident landowner2011100.00%——
2008Resident landowner3088100.00%——
2007Nonresident35483470.83%360
2007Resident35036330985.12%570
2007Nonresident landowner3500———
2007Resident landowner5277100.00%——
2006Nonresident40744054.05%320
2006Resident40036434795.33%770
2006Nonresident landowner4000———
2006Resident landowner601313100.00%——

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
2013Nonresident0400.00%
2013Nonresidentnot stated5120.00%
2013Resident04149.76%
2013Resident126726.92%
2013Resident212325.00%
2013Resident35120.00%
2013Resident43133.33%
2013Resident5100.00%
2013Residentnot stated4848.33%
2013Resident landowner011100.00%
2013Resident landowner111100.00%
2013Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2012Nonresident0200.00%
2012Nonresident12150.00%
2012Nonresident22150.00%
2012Nonresident3100.00%
2012Nonresidentnot stated800.00%
2012Resident051815.69%
2012Resident118211.11%
2012Resident29111.11%
2012Resident39333.33%
2012Resident43266.67%
2012Residentnot stated6334.76%
2012Resident landowner011100.00%
2012Resident landowner211100.00%
2012Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2011Nonresident04125.00%
2011Nonresident1300.00%
2011Nonresidentnot stated5240.00%
2011Resident037513.51%
2011Resident1251040.00%
2011Resident220840.00%
2011Resident38337.50%
2011Residentnot stated941313.83%
2011Resident landowner011100.00%
2011Resident landowner211100.00%
2011Resident landownernot stated7685.71%
2010Nonresident0700.00%
2010Nonresidentnot stated1200.00%
2010Resident0521019.23%
2010Resident1441125.00%
2010Resident28225.00%
2010Residentnot stated1151916.52%
2010Nonresident landowner011100.00%
2010Resident landowner011100.00%
2010Resident landowner111100.00%
2010Resident landownernot stated7571.43%
2009Nonresident01317.69%
2009Nonresident13133.33%
2009Nonresidentnot stated1317.69%
2009Resident010099.00%
2009Resident133824.24%
2009Residentnot stated1852211.89%
2009Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2009Resident landownernot stated8787.50%
2008Nonresident014857.14%
2008Nonresidentnot stated381026.32%
2008Resident01255846.40%
2008Resident1161062.50%
2008Resident211100.00%
2008Residentnot stated21610448.15%
2008Nonresident landowner011100.00%
2008Resident landowner011100.00%
2008Resident landownernot stated77100.00%
2007Nonresident0141285.71%
2007Nonresident133100.00%
2007Nonresident222100.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated291758.62%
2007Resident01139785.84%
2007Resident11818100.00%
2007Resident222100.00%
2007Residentnot stated23019283.48%
2007Resident landownernot stated77100.00%
2006Nonresident0191473.68%
2006Nonresident15480.00%
2006Nonresidentnot stated502244.00%
2006Resident013012596.15%
2006Resident1111090.91%
2006Resident244100.00%
2006Residentnot stated21920894.98%
2006Resident landowner011100.00%
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.