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Montana · Antelope · District 576

Montana antelope licence 576-20

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 2026 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 1,100 on 576-20 in 2026 and drew 1,098, so 2 went undrawn. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, 2 nonresident landowner applicants put it first and 2 drew, 100.00%; 26 resident landowner applicants put it first and 26 drew, 100.00%; 282 nonresident applicants put it first and 104 drew, 36.88%; 2,545 resident applicants put it first and 966 drew, 37.96%.

Published in 5 of the drawing years FWP has posted, 2022 to 2026.

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
2026Nonresident11028210436.88%1430
2026Resident1,1002,54596637.96%7150
2026Nonresident landowner11022100.00%——
2026Resident landowner1652626100.00%——
2025Nonresident11024510342.04%1110
2025Resident1,1002,31297142.00%6040
2025Nonresident landowner11011100.00%——
2025Resident landowner1652525100.00%——
2024Nonresident11030810433.77%1450
2024Resident1,1002,40097540.63%7930
2024Nonresident landowner11011100.00%——
2024Resident landowner1652020100.00%——
2023Nonresident14029112542.96%1630
2023Resident1,4002,3781,25352.69%7800
2023Nonresident landowner14022100.00%——
2023Resident landowner2101919100.00%——
2022Nonresident18035017349.43%1360
2022Resident1,8002,4441,62766.57%6290
2022Nonresident landowner0200.00%——
2022Resident landowner01400.00%——

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
2026Nonresident03900.00%
2026Nonresident11384129.71%
2026Nonresident2643046.88%
2026Nonresident3292172.41%
2026Nonresident499100.00%
2026Nonresident511100.00%
2026Nonresident722100.00%
2026Resident084214517.22%
2026Resident11,07737735.00%
2026Resident247931064.72%
2026Resident312911689.92%
2026Resident41616100.00%
2026Resident522100.00%
2026Resident622100.00%
2026Nonresident landowner011100.00%
2026Nonresident landowner111100.00%
2026Resident landowner01313100.00%
2026Resident landowner11010100.00%
2026Resident landowner233100.00%
2025Nonresident05147.84%
2025Nonresident1852124.71%
2025Nonresident2633860.32%
2025Nonresident3383386.84%
2025Nonresident47685.71%
2025Nonresident511100.00%
2025Resident079918523.15%
2025Resident197339640.70%
2025Resident244831069.20%
2025Resident3756384.00%
2025Resident41010100.00%
2025Resident555100.00%
2025Resident611100.00%
2025Resident1411100.00%
2025Nonresident landowner011100.00%
2025Resident landowner099100.00%
2025Resident landowner11313100.00%
2025Resident landowner233100.00%
2024Nonresident04249.52%
2024Nonresident11623521.60%
2024Nonresident2774254.55%
2024Nonresident3231982.61%
2024Nonresident433100.00%
2024Nonresident511100.00%
2024Resident095022023.16%
2024Resident11,04944842.71%
2024Resident235626975.56%
2024Resident3403382.50%
2024Resident455100.00%
2024Nonresident landowner011100.00%
2024Resident landowner077100.00%
2024Resident landowner11111100.00%
2024Resident landowner211100.00%
2024Resident landowner311100.00%
2023Nonresident11365338.97%
2023Nonresident2503672.00%
2023Nonresident3171694.12%
2023Nonresident43266.67%
2023Nonresidentnot stated851821.18%
2023Resident11,01461460.55%
2023Resident225021987.60%
2023Resident33535100.00%
2023Resident455100.00%
2023Resident533100.00%
2023Residentnot stated1,07237835.26%
2023Nonresident landowner111100.00%
2023Nonresident landownernot stated11100.00%
2023Resident landowner188100.00%
2023Resident landowner233100.00%
2023Resident landownernot stated88100.00%
2022Nonresident11587547.47%
2022Nonresident2734156.16%
2022Nonresident32020100.00%
2022Nonresident477100.00%
2022Nonresidentnot stated902831.11%
2022Resident184462273.70%
2022Resident232331697.83%
2022Resident3292896.55%
2022Resident455100.00%
2022Residentnot stated1,22964852.73%
2022Nonresident landownernot stated22100.00%
2022Resident landowner14125.00%
2022Resident landowner211100.00%
2022Resident landownernot stated9666.67%

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

Antelope licence 570-00Antelope licence 570-20Antelope licence 571-00Antelope licence 572-00Antelope licence 586-20Antelope licence 590-00Antelope licence 590-20Antelope licence 596-20Antelope B licence 576-30All Montana antelopeAll 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.