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Montana · Deer · District 350

Montana deer b licence 350-00

How many people put this deer b 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 2009 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 75 on 350-00 in 2009 and drew 75 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 2 resident landowner applicants put it first and 2 drew, 100.00%; 3 nonresident applicants put it first and 1 drew, 33.33%; 115 resident applicants put it first and 72 drew, 62.61%.

This licence code stops appearing after 2009. 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 4 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
2009Nonresident73133.33%00
2009Resident751157262.61%540
2009Nonresident landowner700———
2009Resident landowner1122100.00%——
2008Nonresident72150.00%00
2008Resident751187361.86%460
2008Nonresident landowner700———
2008Resident landowner1111100.00%——
2006Nonresident7100.00%00
2006Resident751087468.52%470
2006Nonresident landowner700———
2006Resident landowner1111100.00%——

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
2009Nonresident0100.00%
2009Nonresidentnot stated2150.00%
2009Resident0412253.66%
2009Resident1121191.67%
2009Resident211100.00%
2009Residentnot stated613862.30%
2009Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2008Nonresidentnot stated2150.00%
2008Resident0412253.66%
2008Resident19888.89%
2008Residentnot stated684363.24%
2008Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2007Nonresident0100.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated3266.67%
2007Resident0433172.09%
2007Resident177100.00%
2007Residentnot stated593559.32%
2006Nonresident0100.00%
2006Resident0312270.97%
2006Resident122100.00%
2006Residentnot stated755066.67%
2006Resident 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.