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Montana · Antelope · District 500

Montana antelope licence 500-00

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 500-00 in 2013 and drew 300 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 3 resident landowner applicants put it first and 3 drew, 100.00%; 64 nonresident applicants put it first and 30 drew, 46.88%; 414 resident applicants put it first and 267 drew, 64.49%.

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
2013Nonresident30643046.88%530
2013Resident30041426764.49%3080
2013Nonresident landowner5000———
2013Resident landowner7533100.00%——
2012Nonresident504141100.00%399
2012Resident500337337100.00%232108
2012Nonresident landowner5000———
2012Resident landowner7555100.00%——
2011Nonresident50524586.54%361
2011Resident500309309100.00%186144
2011Nonresident landowner5000———
2011Resident landowner7511100.00%——
2010Nonresident503333100.00%3428
2010Resident500245245100.00%130129
2010Nonresident landowner5000———
2010Resident landowner7522100.00%——
2009Nonresident505252100.00%2010
2009Resident500276276100.00%7979
2009Nonresident landowner5000———
2009Resident landowner7511100.00%——
2008Nonresident505656100.00%3918
2008Resident500305305100.00%9595
2008Nonresident landowner5000———
2008Resident landowner7511100.00%——
2007Nonresident604646100.00%2726
2007Resident600438438100.00%6565
2007Nonresident landowner6000———
2007Resident landowner9033100.00%——
2006Nonresident605252100.00%1510
2006Resident600489489100.00%4443
2006Nonresident landowner6000———
2006Resident landowner9033100.00%——

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
2013Nonresident015640.00%
2013Nonresident12150.00%
2013Nonresidentnot stated472348.94%
2013Resident01277055.12%
2013Resident1262492.31%
2013Resident266100.00%
2013Resident322100.00%
2013Resident511100.00%
2013Residentnot stated25216465.08%
2013Resident landownernot stated33100.00%
2012Nonresident01212100.00%
2012Nonresident133100.00%
2012Nonresidentnot stated2626100.00%
2012Resident0113113100.00%
2012Resident12121100.00%
2012Resident266100.00%
2012Residentnot stated197197100.00%
2012Resident landownernot stated55100.00%
2011Nonresident055100.00%
2011Nonresident111100.00%
2011Nonresident211100.00%
2011Nonresidentnot stated453884.44%
2011Resident0104104100.00%
2011Resident11313100.00%
2011Resident244100.00%
2011Residentnot stated188188100.00%
2011Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2010Nonresident022100.00%
2010Nonresident111100.00%
2010Nonresidentnot stated3030100.00%
2010Resident06161100.00%
2010Resident155100.00%
2010Resident211100.00%
2010Residentnot stated178178100.00%
2010Resident landowner011100.00%
2010Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2009Nonresident01111100.00%
2009Nonresidentnot stated4141100.00%
2009Resident07878100.00%
2009Resident133100.00%
2009Resident211100.00%
2009Residentnot stated194194100.00%
2009Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2008Nonresident01414100.00%
2008Nonresident111100.00%
2008Nonresidentnot stated4141100.00%
2008Resident08686100.00%
2008Resident155100.00%
2008Residentnot stated214214100.00%
2008Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2007Nonresident055100.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated4141100.00%
2007Resident0143143100.00%
2007Resident199100.00%
2007Residentnot stated286286100.00%
2007Resident landownernot stated33100.00%
2006Nonresident01717100.00%
2006Nonresident122100.00%
2006Nonresidentnot stated3333100.00%
2006Resident0144144100.00%
2006Resident11414100.00%
2006Resident233100.00%
2006Residentnot stated329329100.00%
2006Resident landownernot stated33100.00%

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.