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Montana antelope licence 473-00

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 2011 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 150 on 473-00 in 2011 and drew 150 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, 2 nonresident landowner applicants put it first and 2 drew, 100.00%; 27 resident landowner applicants put it first and 21 drew, 77.78%; 22 nonresident applicants put it first and 6 drew, 27.27%; 377 resident applicants put it first and 121 drew, 32.10%.

This licence code stops appearing after 2011. 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.
Year	Pool	Pool cap	Put it first	Drew on first choice	First-choice success rate	Put it 2nd or 3rd	Drew on 2nd or 3rd
2011	Nonresident	15	22	6	27.27%	4	0
2011	Resident	150	377	121	32.10%	223	0
2011	Nonresident landowner	15	2	2	100.00%	—	—
2011	Resident landowner	23	27	21	77.78%	—	—
2010	Nonresident	15	20	6	30.00%	19	0
2010	Resident	150	294	121	41.16%	181	0
2010	Nonresident landowner	15	1	1	100.00%	—	—
2010	Resident landowner	23	36	22	61.11%	—	—
2009	Nonresident	15	12	7	58.33%	13	0
2009	Resident	150	342	121	35.38%	149	0
2009	Nonresident landowner	15	1	1	100.00%	—	—
2009	Resident landowner	23	21	21	100.00%	—	—
2008	Nonresident	15	16	6	37.50%	5	0
2008	Resident	150	357	121	33.89%	119	0
2008	Nonresident landowner	15	1	1	100.00%	—	—
2008	Resident landowner	23	25	22	88.00%	—	—
2007	Nonresident	15	18	4	22.22%	9	0
2007	Resident	150	308	124	40.26%	95	0
2007	Nonresident landowner	15	0	0	—	—	—
2007	Resident landowner	22	22	22	100.00%	—	—
2006	Nonresident	15	13	8	61.54%	8	0
2006	Resident	150	267	126	47.19%	115	0
2006	Nonresident landowner	15	0	0	—	—	—
2006	Resident landowner	22	16	16	100.00%	—	—

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.
Year	Pool	Bonus points	Applied	Drew	Drew at this level
2011	Nonresident	0	2	0	0.00%
2011	Nonresident	1	7	2	28.57%
2011	Nonresident	not stated	13	4	30.77%
2011	Resident	0	129	33	25.58%
2011	Resident	1	75	33	44.00%
2011	Resident	2	15	7	46.67%
2011	Resident	3	3	3	100.00%
2011	Resident	4	1	1	100.00%
2011	Resident	5	1	0	0.00%
2011	Resident	not stated	147	44	29.93%
2011	Nonresident landowner	not stated	2	2	100.00%
2011	Resident landowner	0	6	6	100.00%
2011	Resident landowner	1	4	4	100.00%
2011	Resident landowner	not stated	17	11	64.71%
2010	Nonresident	0	9	2	22.22%
2010	Nonresident	1	2	2	100.00%
2010	Nonresident	not stated	9	2	22.22%
2010	Resident	0	82	21	25.61%
2010	Resident	1	38	28	73.68%
2010	Resident	2	14	13	92.86%
2010	Resident	3	1	1	100.00%
2010	Resident	4	1	1	100.00%
2010	Resident	not stated	144	57	39.58%
2010	Nonresident landowner	not stated	1	1	100.00%
2010	Resident landowner	0	4	3	75.00%
2010	Resident landowner	1	2	2	100.00%
2010	Resident landowner	not stated	30	17	56.67%
2009	Nonresident	0	5	2	40.00%
2009	Nonresident	1	1	1	100.00%
2009	Nonresident	not stated	6	4	66.67%
2009	Resident	0	110	35	31.82%
2009	Resident	1	50	25	50.00%
2009	Resident	2	15	11	73.33%
2009	Resident	3	4	2	50.00%
2009	Resident	not stated	163	48	29.45%
2009	Nonresident landowner	1	1	1	100.00%
2009	Resident landowner	0	4	4	100.00%
2009	Resident landowner	not stated	17	17	100.00%
2008	Nonresident	0	5	0	0.00%
2008	Nonresident	not stated	11	6	54.55%
2008	Resident	0	123	36	29.27%
2008	Resident	1	38	23	60.53%
2008	Resident	2	11	8	72.73%
2008	Resident	3	2	2	100.00%
2008	Resident	not stated	180	52	28.89%
2008	Nonresident landowner	0	1	1	100.00%
2008	Resident landowner	0	4	4	100.00%
2008	Resident landowner	not stated	21	18	85.71%
2007	Nonresident	0	6	1	16.67%
2007	Nonresident	1	1	1	100.00%
2007	Nonresident	not stated	11	2	18.18%
2007	Resident	0	91	34	37.36%
2007	Resident	1	28	14	50.00%
2007	Resident	2	10	9	90.00%
2007	Resident	3	2	1	50.00%
2007	Resident	4	1	0	0.00%
2007	Resident	not stated	176	66	37.50%
2007	Resident landowner	0	4	4	100.00%
2007	Resident landowner	not stated	18	18	100.00%
2006	Nonresident	0	4	2	50.00%
2006	Nonresident	not stated	9	6	66.67%
2006	Resident	0	87	38	43.68%
2006	Resident	1	29	19	65.52%
2006	Resident	2	8	7	87.50%
2006	Resident	not stated	143	62	43.36%
2006	Resident landowner	0	2	2	100.00%
2006	Resident landowner	1	1	1	100.00%
2006	Resident landowner	not stated	13	13	100.00%

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. This hunt shows it in 2011: in the resident pool every applicant at 3 points drew, and 1 of 1 at 5 did not.

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

2011 antelope stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2011-07-20, fetched 2026-09-03
2010 antelope stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2010-07-21, fetched 2026-09-03
2009 antelope stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2009-07-22, fetched 2026-09-03
2008 ANTELOPE_stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2008-07-28, fetched 2026-09-03
2007 ANTELOPE_stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2007-08-06, fetched 2026-09-03
2006 ANTELOPE_stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2006-08-07, fetched 2026-09-03
2011 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2011-08-09, fetched 2026-09-03
2010 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2010-07-23, fetched 2026-09-03
2009 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2009-07-23, fetched 2026-09-03
2008 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2008-07-31, fetched 2026-09-03
2007 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2007-10-30, fetched 2026-09-03
2006 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2006-09-11, fetched 2026-09-03

Other licences in these districts

Antelope licence 470-20 Antelope licence 471-00 Antelope licence 471-10 Antelope licence 471-20 Antelope licence 480-00 Antelope licence 480-10 Antelope licence 480-20 Antelope licence 481-00 All Montana antelope All Montana species

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.