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Montana · Antelope · District 491

Montana antelope licence 491-00

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 125 on 491-00 in 2013 and drew 125 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 2 resident landowner applicants put it first and 2 drew, 100.00%; 25 nonresident applicants put it first and 12 drew, 48.00%; 196 resident applicants put it first and 111 drew, 56.63%.

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
2013Nonresident12251248.00%50
2013Resident12519611156.63%1290
2013Nonresident landowner1200———
2013Resident landowner1922100.00%——
2012Nonresident12371129.73%130
2012Resident12519211358.85%1290
2012Nonresident landowner1211100.00%——
2012Resident landowner1900———
2011Nonresident12401230.00%70
2011Resident12523811247.06%1240
2011Nonresident landowner1200———
2011Resident landowner1911100.00%——
2010Nonresident25532547.17%190
2010Resident25023222596.98%1190
2010Nonresident landowner2500———
2010Resident landowner3800———
2009Nonresident25462452.17%100
2009Resident25028322479.15%790
2009Nonresident landowner2511100.00%——
2009Resident landowner3811100.00%——
2008Nonresident25452453.33%260
2008Resident25027322482.05%840
2008Nonresident landowner2511100.00%——
2008Resident landowner3811100.00%——
2007Nonresident25442556.82%70
2007Resident25023522394.89%680
2007Nonresident landowner2500———
2007Resident landowner3722100.00%——
2006Nonresident17361747.22%30
2006Resident17523715464.98%850
2006Nonresident landowner1700———
2006Resident landowner2644100.00%——

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
2013Nonresident07228.57%
2013Nonresident144100.00%
2013Nonresident211100.00%
2013Nonresident311100.00%
2013Nonresidentnot stated12433.33%
2013Resident0663451.52%
2013Resident1292068.97%
2013Resident255100.00%
2013Resident322100.00%
2013Residentnot stated945053.19%
2013Resident landowner011100.00%
2013Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2012Nonresident016743.75%
2012Nonresident1500.00%
2012Nonresident2100.00%
2012Nonresidentnot stated15426.67%
2012Resident0733649.32%
2012Resident1312683.87%
2012Resident23133.33%
2012Residentnot stated855058.82%
2012Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2011Nonresident011654.55%
2011Nonresident17228.57%
2011Nonresident211100.00%
2011Nonresidentnot stated21314.29%
2011Resident01014039.60%
2011Resident1141178.57%
2011Resident211100.00%
2011Residentnot stated1226049.18%
2011Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2010Nonresident0301136.67%
2010Nonresident12150.00%
2010Nonresident211100.00%
2010Nonresidentnot stated201260.00%
2010Resident0636298.41%
2010Resident12828100.00%
2010Resident211100.00%
2010Residentnot stated14013495.71%
2009Nonresident012650.00%
2009Nonresident12150.00%
2009Nonresident211100.00%
2009Nonresidentnot stated311651.61%
2009Resident01249274.19%
2009Resident1151280.00%
2009Resident211100.00%
2009Residentnot stated14311983.22%
2009Nonresident landowner011100.00%
2009Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2008Nonresident011763.64%
2008Nonresident14375.00%
2008Nonresident233100.00%
2008Nonresidentnot stated271140.74%
2008Resident011710085.47%
2008Resident11616100.00%
2008Resident211100.00%
2008Residentnot stated13910776.98%
2008Nonresident landowner111100.00%
2008Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2007Nonresident014857.14%
2007Nonresident14125.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated261661.54%
2007Resident0898898.88%
2007Resident13434100.00%
2007Resident222100.00%
2007Residentnot stated1109990.00%
2007Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2006Nonresident010220.00%
2006Nonresident133100.00%
2006Nonresident211100.00%
2006Nonresidentnot stated221150.00%
2006Resident0804961.25%
2006Resident1201995.00%
2006Resident244100.00%
2006Resident311100.00%
2006Residentnot stated1328161.36%
2006Resident landownernot stated44100.00%

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.