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Montana · Antelope · District 530

Montana antelope licence 530-00

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 530-00 in 2013 and drew 300 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, 1 nonresident landowner applicant put it first and 1 drew, 100.00%; 6 resident landowner applicants put it first and 6 drew, 100.00%; 67 nonresident applicants put it first and 29 drew, 43.28%; 444 resident applicants put it first and 264 drew, 59.46%.

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
2013Nonresident30672943.28%310
2013Resident30044426459.46%2010
2013Nonresident landowner3011100.00%——
2013Resident landowner4566100.00%——
2012Nonresident30892932.58%330
2012Resident30048726354.00%2270
2012Nonresident landowner3011100.00%——
2012Resident landowner4577100.00%——
2011Nonresident40944042.55%450
2011Resident40065035154.00%2210
2011Nonresident landowner4000———
2011Resident landowner6099100.00%——
2010Nonresident601565937.82%460
2010Resident60070052975.57%2030
2010Nonresident landowner6000———
2010Resident landowner901212100.00%——
2009Nonresident701766939.20%710
2009Resident70073662484.78%2280
2009Nonresident landowner7000———
2009Resident landowner10577100.00%——
2008Nonresident802128037.74%940
2008Resident80077870991.13%1640
2008Nonresident landowner8000———
2008Resident landowner1201111100.00%——
2007Nonresident13023615163.98%850
2007Resident1,3001,0581,058100.00%8180
2007Nonresident landowner1311100.00%——
2007Resident landowner1951010100.00%——
2006Nonresident15026414856.06%1100
2006Resident1,5001,2571,257100.00%9588
2006Nonresident landowner15000———
2006Resident landowner22577100.00%——

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
2013Nonresident015533.33%
2013Nonresident115853.33%
2013Nonresident24375.00%
2013Nonresident33266.67%
2013Nonresident411100.00%
2013Nonresident611100.00%
2013Nonresidentnot stated28932.14%
2013Resident01819954.70%
2013Resident1575087.72%
2013Resident21414100.00%
2013Residentnot stated19210152.60%
2013Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2013Resident landowner022100.00%
2013Resident landownernot stated44100.00%
2012Nonresident033618.18%
2012Nonresident18675.00%
2012Nonresident22150.00%
2012Nonresidentnot stated461634.78%
2012Resident01638149.69%
2012Resident1704868.57%
2012Resident210770.00%
2012Resident511100.00%
2012Residentnot stated24312651.85%
2012Nonresident landowner011100.00%
2012Resident landowner022100.00%
2012Resident landownernot stated55100.00%
2011Nonresident014964.29%
2011Nonresident14375.00%
2011Nonresident222100.00%
2011Nonresident4200.00%
2011Nonresidentnot stated722636.11%
2011Resident022612454.87%
2011Resident1484287.50%
2011Resident244100.00%
2011Residentnot stated37218148.66%
2011Resident landowner011100.00%
2011Resident landownernot stated88100.00%
2010Nonresident0391025.64%
2010Nonresident1261246.15%
2010Nonresident27571.43%
2010Nonresident3200.00%
2010Nonresidentnot stated823239.02%
2010Resident021316075.12%
2010Resident1353188.57%
2010Resident288100.00%
2010Residentnot stated44433074.32%
2010Resident landowner011100.00%
2010Resident landownernot stated1111100.00%
2009Nonresident0571831.58%
2009Nonresident114535.71%
2009Nonresident23133.33%
2009Nonresidentnot stated1024544.12%
2009Resident023319884.98%
2009Resident1282175.00%
2009Resident222100.00%
2009Resident311100.00%
2009Residentnot stated47240285.17%
2009Resident landowner022100.00%
2009Resident landownernot stated55100.00%
2008Nonresident0752229.33%
2008Nonresident1141071.43%
2008Nonresident211100.00%
2008Nonresidentnot stated1224738.52%
2008Resident024521587.76%
2008Resident11313100.00%
2008Resident211100.00%
2008Residentnot stated51948092.49%
2008Resident landowner022100.00%
2008Resident landownernot stated99100.00%
2007Nonresident0764964.47%
2007Nonresident1242083.33%
2007Nonresident244100.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated1327859.09%
2007Resident0357357100.00%
2007Resident11212100.00%
2007Resident233100.00%
2007Resident311100.00%
2007Resident411100.00%
2007Residentnot stated684684100.00%
2007Nonresident landowner011100.00%
2007Resident landowner011100.00%
2007Resident landownernot stated99100.00%
2006Nonresident0944648.94%
2006Nonresident1191578.95%
2006Nonresident233100.00%
2006Nonresidentnot stated1488456.76%
2006Resident0343343100.00%
2006Resident12020100.00%
2006Resident233100.00%
2006Resident311100.00%
2006Residentnot stated890890100.00%
2006Resident landowner011100.00%
2006Resident landownernot stated66100.00%

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.