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Montana · Antelope · District 590

Montana antelope licence 590-20

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 450 on 590-20 in 2021 and drew 450 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 1 resident landowner applicant put it first and 1 drew, 100.00%; 65 nonresident applicants put it first and 40 drew, 61.54%; 338 resident applicants put it first and 333 drew, 98.52%.

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
2021Nonresident45654061.54%790
2021Resident45033833398.52%29376
2021Nonresident landowner4500———
2021Resident landowner6811100.00%——
2020Nonresident45644570.31%680
2020Resident450325325100.00%22579
2020Nonresident landowner4500———
2020Resident landowner6811100.00%——
2019Nonresident455353100.00%6011
2019Resident450236236100.00%149149
2019Nonresident landowner4500———
2019Resident landowner6811100.00%——
2018Nonresident504141100.00%449
2018Resident500302302100.00%227147
2018Nonresident landowner5000———
2018Resident landowner7511100.00%——
2017Nonresident504747100.00%2412
2017Resident500333333100.00%105105
2017Nonresident landowner5000———
2017Resident landowner7533100.00%——
2016Nonresident50695072.46%250
2016Resident500369369100.00%9179
2016Nonresident landowner5000———
2016Resident landowner7522100.00%——
2015Nonresident50644671.88%290
2015Resident500389389100.00%18764
2015Nonresident landowner5000———
2015Resident landowner7511100.00%——
2014Nonresident60765775.00%330
2014Resident600454454100.00%27089
2014Nonresident landowner6000———
2014Resident landowner9000———

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
2021Nonresident0321443.75%
2021Nonresident15480.00%
2021Nonresident233100.00%
2021Nonresident322100.00%
2021Nonresidentnot stated231773.91%
2021Resident014214098.59%
2021Resident11212100.00%
2021Resident255100.00%
2021Resident322100.00%
2021Residentnot stated17717498.31%
2021Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2020Nonresident0332060.61%
2020Nonresidentnot stated312580.65%
2020Resident0132132100.00%
2020Resident11616100.00%
2020Resident222100.00%
2020Residentnot stated175175100.00%
2020Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2019Nonresident02222100.00%
2019Nonresidentnot stated3131100.00%
2019Resident07474100.00%
2019Resident166100.00%
2019Resident244100.00%
2019Residentnot stated152152100.00%
2019Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2018Nonresident01515100.00%
2018Nonresident111100.00%
2018Nonresident211100.00%
2018Nonresidentnot stated2424100.00%
2018Resident09797100.00%
2018Resident11313100.00%
2018Resident233100.00%
2018Resident411100.00%
2018Residentnot stated188188100.00%
2018Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2017Nonresident01717100.00%
2017Nonresident211100.00%
2017Nonresidentnot stated2929100.00%
2017Resident0104104100.00%
2017Resident199100.00%
2017Resident222100.00%
2017Resident411100.00%
2017Residentnot stated217217100.00%
2017Resident landownernot stated33100.00%
2016Nonresident0292068.97%
2016Nonresident14375.00%
2016Nonresidentnot stated362775.00%
2016Resident0101101100.00%
2016Resident12424100.00%
2016Resident255100.00%
2016Resident411100.00%
2016Residentnot stated238238100.00%
2016Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2015Nonresident0171482.35%
2015Nonresident14375.00%
2015Nonresidentnot stated432967.44%
2015Resident0123123100.00%
2015Resident11010100.00%
2015Resident277100.00%
2015Residentnot stated249249100.00%
2015Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2014Nonresident0262076.92%
2014Nonresident11313100.00%
2014Nonresident211100.00%
2014Nonresidentnot stated362363.89%
2014Resident0146146100.00%
2014Resident12323100.00%
2014Resident299100.00%
2014Resident333100.00%
2014Residentnot stated273273100.00%

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.