Montana · Elk · District 498
Montana elk b licence 498-80
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 2007 drawing did
Montana set a quota of 0 on 498-80 in 2007 and drew 117, so -117 went undrawn, and 33 went to the surplus list. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; no resident landowner applicant put it first; 110 nonresident applicants put it first and 110 drew, 100.00%; no resident applicant put it first.
This licence code stops appearing after 2007. 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 2 years it was drawn.
First-choice success rate, by pool and year
| Year | Pool | Pool cap | Put it first | Drew on first choice | First-choice success rate | Put it 2nd or 3rd | Drew on 2nd or 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Nonresident | 150 | 110 | 110 | 100.00% | 7 | 7 |
| 2007 | Resident | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | Nonresident landowner | 23 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2007 | Resident landowner | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2006 | Nonresident | 150 | 52 | 52 | 100.00% | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | Resident | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | Nonresident landowner | 23 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2006 | Resident landowner | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
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.
Sources for this licence
- 2007 ELK_A9-B12_stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2007-07-24, fetched 2026-09-03
- 2006 ELK_A9-B12_stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2006-07-25, fetched 2026-09-03