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Montana · Antelope · District 511

Montana antelope licence 511-20

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 2021 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 250 on 511-20 in 2021 and drew 250 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, 3 nonresident landowner applicants put it first and 3 drew, 100.00%; 4 resident landowner applicants put it first and 4 drew, 100.00%; 26 nonresident applicants put it first and 22 drew, 84.62%; 200 resident applicants put it first and 200 drew, 100.00%.

This licence code stops appearing after 2021. 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
2021Nonresident25262284.62%400
2021Resident250200200100.00%12521
2021Nonresident landowner2533100.00%——
2021Resident landowner3844100.00%——
2020Nonresident251515100.00%1810
2020Resident250198198100.00%5723
2020Nonresident landowner2500———
2020Resident landowner3844100.00%——
2019Nonresident251717100.00%1414
2019Resident250155155100.00%4040
2019Nonresident landowner2500———
2019Resident landowner3833100.00%——
2018Nonresident251414100.00%1110
2018Resident250189189100.00%3532
2018Nonresident landowner2500———
2018Resident landowner3855100.00%——
2017Nonresident251616100.00%33
2017Resident250182182100.00%1818
2017Nonresident landowner2500———
2017Resident landowner3844100.00%——
2016Nonresident252020100.00%60
2016Resident250222222100.00%182
2016Nonresident landowner2500———
2016Resident landowner3866100.00%——
2015Nonresident252020100.00%140
2015Resident25026422785.98%290
2015Nonresident landowner2500———
2015Resident landowner3833100.00%——
2014Nonresident25242187.50%110
2014Resident25032122570.09%560
2014Nonresident landowner2500———
2014Resident landowner3844100.00%——

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
2021Nonresident012866.67%
2021Nonresident111100.00%
2021Nonresidentnot stated1313100.00%
2021Resident06666100.00%
2021Resident155100.00%
2021Resident222100.00%
2021Residentnot stated127127100.00%
2021Nonresident landowner033100.00%
2021Resident landowner022100.00%
2021Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2020Nonresident088100.00%
2020Nonresidentnot stated77100.00%
2020Resident07676100.00%
2020Resident133100.00%
2020Resident311100.00%
2020Residentnot stated118118100.00%
2020Resident landowner011100.00%
2020Resident landownernot stated33100.00%
2019Nonresident01010100.00%
2019Nonresidentnot stated77100.00%
2019Resident07272100.00%
2019Resident155100.00%
2019Residentnot stated7878100.00%
2019Resident landowner011100.00%
2019Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2018Nonresident099100.00%
2018Nonresidentnot stated55100.00%
2018Resident08888100.00%
2018Resident122100.00%
2018Resident211100.00%
2018Residentnot stated9898100.00%
2018Resident landowner011100.00%
2018Resident landownernot stated44100.00%
2017Nonresident033100.00%
2017Nonresidentnot stated1313100.00%
2017Resident08282100.00%
2017Resident177100.00%
2017Residentnot stated9393100.00%
2017Resident landowner011100.00%
2017Resident landownernot stated33100.00%
2016Nonresident066100.00%
2016Nonresidentnot stated1414100.00%
2016Resident08888100.00%
2016Resident11111100.00%
2016Resident255100.00%
2016Residentnot stated118118100.00%
2016Resident landowner011100.00%
2016Resident landownernot stated55100.00%
2015Nonresident088100.00%
2015Nonresident111100.00%
2015Nonresidentnot stated1111100.00%
2015Resident0998585.86%
2015Resident1312683.87%
2015Resident222100.00%
2015Residentnot stated13211486.36%
2015Resident landowner011100.00%
2015Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2014Nonresident011981.82%
2014Nonresident222100.00%
2014Nonresidentnot stated111090.91%
2014Resident01117063.06%
2014Resident1413995.12%
2014Resident21212100.00%
2014Residentnot stated15710466.24%
2014Resident landowner033100.00%
2014Resident landownernot stated11100.00%

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.