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Montana · Elk · District 392

Montana elk b licence 392-00

How many people put this elk 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 2026 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 25 on 392-00 in 2026 and drew 25 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; no resident landowner applicant put it first; 15 nonresident applicants put it first and none of them drew; 510 resident applicants put it first and 25 drew, 4.90%.

Published in 13 of the drawing years FWP has posted, 2014 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
2026Nonresident21500.00%200
2026Resident25510254.90%2890
2026Nonresident landowner200———
2026Resident landowner400———
2025Nonresident21400.00%160
2025Resident25422255.92%1780
2025Nonresident landowner200———
2025Resident landowner400———
2024Nonresident21000.00%190
2024Resident25386256.48%1980
2024Nonresident landowner200———
2024Resident landowner400———
2023Nonresident21700.00%150
2023Resident25331257.55%1690
2023Nonresident landowner200———
2023Resident landowner400———
2022Nonresident21200.00%130
2022Resident25304258.22%1590
2022Nonresident landowner200———
2022Resident landowner400———
2021Nonresident21400.00%60
2021Resident25350257.14%1320
2021Nonresident landowner200———
2021Resident landowner400———
2020Nonresident21500.00%20
2020Resident25318257.86%1280
2020Nonresident landowner200———
2020Resident landowner400———
2019Nonresident51218.33%50
2019Resident503474914.12%630
2019Nonresident landowner500———
2019Resident landowner800———
2018Nonresident51100.00%30
2018Resident504205011.90%1020
2018Nonresident landowner500———
2018Resident landowner800———
2017Nonresident78225.00%20
2017Resident753357321.79%1000
2017Nonresident landowner700———
2017Resident landowner1200———
2016Nonresident71516.67%40
2016Resident754377416.93%1440
2016Nonresident landowner700———
2016Resident landowner1200———
2015Nonresident302020100.00%30
2015Resident300265265100.00%19712
2015Nonresident landowner3000———
2015Resident landowner4533100.00%——
2014Nonresident17221463.64%30
2014Resident17525415962.60%2240
2014Nonresident landowner1700———
2014Resident landowner2622100.00%——

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
2026Nonresident0500.00%
2026Nonresident1400.00%
2026Nonresident2200.00%
2026Nonresident3100.00%
2026Nonresident5200.00%
2026Nonresident6100.00%
2026Resident012910.78%
2026Resident112310.81%
2026Resident28133.70%
2026Resident37268.33%
2026Resident44848.33%
2026Resident52613.85%
2026Resident615320.00%
2026Resident78225.00%
2026Resident84250.00%
2026Resident94250.00%
2025Nonresident0400.00%
2025Nonresident1700.00%
2025Nonresident2100.00%
2025Nonresident4100.00%
2025Nonresident5100.00%
2025Resident012510.80%
2025Resident19066.67%
2025Resident28544.71%
2025Resident35024.00%
2025Resident428310.71%
2025Resident523521.74%
2025Resident611218.18%
2025Resident74125.00%
2025Resident8500.00%
2025Resident911100.00%
2024Nonresident0600.00%
2024Nonresident1300.00%
2024Nonresident3100.00%
2024Resident010800.00%
2024Resident111121.80%
2024Resident26534.62%
2024Resident339512.82%
2024Resident432515.63%
2024Resident51417.14%
2024Resident68450.00%
2024Resident77457.14%
2024Resident82150.00%
2023Nonresident1400.00%
2023Nonresident2200.00%
2023Nonresident3100.00%
2023Nonresidentnot stated1000.00%
2023Resident17822.56%
2023Resident25347.55%
2023Resident33837.89%
2023Resident421628.57%
2023Resident518527.78%
2023Resident612325.00%
2023Resident7400.00%
2023Residentnot stated10721.87%
2022Nonresident1400.00%
2022Nonresident2100.00%
2022Nonresident4100.00%
2022Nonresidentnot stated600.00%
2022Resident0100.00%
2022Resident16011.67%
2022Resident24548.89%
2022Resident33538.57%
2022Resident418316.67%
2022Resident518738.89%
2022Resident65240.00%
2022Resident722100.00%
2022Resident811100.00%
2022Residentnot stated11921.68%
2021Nonresident0300.00%
2021Nonresident1300.00%
2021Nonresident2100.00%
2021Nonresidentnot stated700.00%
2021Resident08700.00%
2021Resident144511.36%
2021Resident231412.90%
2021Resident336616.67%
2021Resident414428.57%
2021Resident53133.33%
2021Resident6100.00%
2021Residentnot stated13453.73%
2020Nonresident0500.00%
2020Nonresident1300.00%
2020Nonresidentnot stated700.00%
2020Resident07111.41%
2020Resident16357.94%
2020Resident243818.60%
2020Resident321733.33%
2020Resident4200.00%
2020Resident52150.00%
2020Residentnot stated11632.59%
2019Nonresident0600.00%
2019Nonresident12150.00%
2019Nonresidentnot stated400.00%
2019Resident08356.02%
2019Resident1741013.51%
2019Resident2511223.53%
2019Resident320945.00%
2019Resident411654.55%
2019Resident511100.00%
2019Residentnot stated10765.61%
2018Nonresident0400.00%
2018Nonresidentnot stated700.00%
2018Resident012875.47%
2018Resident17368.22%
2018Resident2501938.00%
2018Resident314535.71%
2018Resident44375.00%
2018Resident511100.00%
2018Residentnot stated15096.00%
2017Nonresident0200.00%
2017Nonresident12150.00%
2017Nonresidentnot stated4125.00%
2017Resident0911010.99%
2017Resident1722230.56%
2017Resident2331545.45%
2017Resident312758.33%
2017Resident44375.00%
2017Resident511100.00%
2017Residentnot stated1221512.30%
2016Nonresident0400.00%
2016Nonresident1200.00%
2016Nonresidentnot stated9111.11%
2016Resident01531912.42%
2016Resident1741418.92%
2016Resident223939.13%
2016Resident312650.00%
2016Resident45360.00%
2016Resident511100.00%
2016Residentnot stated1692213.02%
2015Nonresident01010100.00%
2015Nonresident144100.00%
2015Nonresidentnot stated66100.00%
2015Resident08787100.00%
2015Resident13636100.00%
2015Resident288100.00%
2015Resident311100.00%
2015Resident411100.00%
2015Resident511100.00%
2015Residentnot stated131131100.00%
2015Resident landowner011100.00%
2015Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2014Nonresident09666.67%
2014Nonresidentnot stated13861.54%
2014Resident01005858.00%
2014Resident1261765.38%
2014Resident255100.00%
2014Residentnot stated1237964.23%
2014Resident landownernot stated22100.00%

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.