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Montana · Deer · District 391

Montana deer b licence 391-00

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 2013 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 50 on 391-00 in 2013 and drew 50 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 4 resident landowner applicants put it first and 4 drew, 100.00%; 3 nonresident applicants put it first and none of them drew; 189 resident applicants put it first and 46 drew, 24.34%.

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
2013Nonresident5300.00%10
2013Resident501894624.34%780
2013Nonresident landowner500———
2013Resident landowner844100.00%——
2012Nonresident53133.33%30
2012Resident501764123.30%640
2012Nonresident landowner500———
2012Resident landowner89888.89%——
2011Nonresident54125.00%10
2011Resident501754324.57%590
2011Nonresident landowner500———
2011Resident landowner866100.00%——
2010Nonresident51119.09%50
2010Resident502144320.09%510
2010Nonresident landowner500———
2010Resident landowner866100.00%——
2009Nonresident108450.00%20
2009Resident1001918846.07%460
2009Nonresident landowner1000———
2009Resident landowner1588100.00%——
2008Nonresident1012975.00%40
2008Resident1001528555.92%410
2008Nonresident landowner1000———
2008Resident landowner1566100.00%——
2006Nonresident54375.00%00
2006Resident501444229.17%290
2006Nonresident landowner500———
2006Resident landowner755100.00%——

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
2013Nonresident0100.00%
2013Nonresidentnot stated200.00%
2013Resident0461021.74%
2013Resident129724.14%
2013Resident213861.54%
2013Resident37342.86%
2013Resident422100.00%
2013Residentnot stated921617.39%
2013Resident landowner011100.00%
2013Resident landowner111100.00%
2013Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2012Nonresident111100.00%
2012Nonresidentnot stated200.00%
2012Resident04948.16%
2012Resident124833.33%
2012Resident215640.00%
2012Resident35360.00%
2012Resident411100.00%
2012Residentnot stated811923.46%
2012Resident landowner03266.67%
2012Resident landownernot stated66100.00%
2011Nonresident0100.00%
2011Nonresidentnot stated3133.33%
2011Resident0491122.45%
2011Resident126830.77%
2011Resident2181161.11%
2011Resident3100.00%
2011Resident4100.00%
2011Residentnot stated801316.25%
2011Resident landowner022100.00%
2011Resident landownernot stated44100.00%
2010Nonresident0300.00%
2010Nonresident2100.00%
2010Nonresidentnot stated7114.29%
2010Resident0631422.22%
2010Resident137924.32%
2010Resident24250.00%
2010Resident3100.00%
2010Residentnot stated1091816.51%
2010Resident landowner011100.00%
2010Resident landownernot stated55100.00%
2009Nonresident0200.00%
2009Nonresident1100.00%
2009Nonresidentnot stated5480.00%
2009Resident0723041.67%
2009Resident115853.33%
2009Resident24375.00%
2009Residentnot stated1004747.00%
2009Resident landownernot stated88100.00%
2008Nonresident02150.00%
2008Nonresident111100.00%
2008Nonresidentnot stated9777.78%
2008Resident0533260.38%
2008Resident19777.78%
2008Resident222100.00%
2008Resident311100.00%
2008Residentnot stated874349.43%
2008Resident landowner011100.00%
2008Resident landownernot stated55100.00%
2007Nonresident02150.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated4125.00%
2007Resident0291758.62%
2007Resident1261973.08%
2007Resident27685.71%
2007Resident311100.00%
2007Residentnot stated745168.92%
2007Resident landowner011100.00%
2007Resident landowner111100.00%
2007Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2006Nonresident0100.00%
2006Nonresidentnot stated33100.00%
2006Resident0531222.64%
2006Resident114857.14%
2006Resident27685.71%
2006Resident311100.00%
2006Residentnot stated691521.74%
2006Resident landowner011100.00%
2006Resident landownernot stated44100.00%

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.