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Montana · Elk · District 699

Montana elk b licence 699-00

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 2023 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 100 on 699-00 in 2023 and drew 100 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; no resident landowner applicant put it first; 33 nonresident applicants put it first and 10 drew, 30.30%; 192 resident applicants put it first and 90 drew, 46.88%.

This licence code stops appearing after 2023. 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
2023Nonresident10331030.30%160
2023Resident1001929046.88%2110
2023Nonresident landowner1000———
2023Resident landowner1500———
2022Nonresident10401025.00%100
2022Resident1002328938.36%2340
2022Nonresident landowner1000———
2022Resident landowner1511100.00%——
2021Nonresident30442965.91%140
2021Resident30033626980.06%3190
2021Nonresident landowner3000———
2021Resident landowner4522100.00%——
2020Nonresident30383078.95%40
2020Resident30029326891.47%3860
2020Nonresident landowner3000———
2020Resident landowner4522100.00%——
2019Nonresident503939100.00%83
2019Resident500289289100.00%306168
2019Nonresident landowner5000———
2019Resident landowner7511100.00%——
2018Nonresident502222100.00%209
2018Resident500309309100.00%395159
2018Nonresident landowner5000———
2018Resident landowner7511100.00%——
2017Nonresident501111100.00%166
2017Resident500296296100.00%515186
2017Nonresident landowner5000———
2017Resident landowner7511100.00%——
2016Nonresident501414100.00%134
2016Resident500230230100.00%526251
2016Nonresident landowner5011100.00%——
2016Resident landowner7500———

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
2023Nonresident110440.00%
2023Nonresident25360.00%
2023Nonresidentnot stated18316.67%
2023Resident1813037.04%
2023Resident2503774.00%
2023Resident388100.00%
2023Resident433100.00%
2023Residentnot stated501224.00%
2022Nonresident117529.41%
2022Nonresident22150.00%
2022Nonresident3100.00%
2022Nonresidentnot stated20420.00%
2022Resident1933537.63%
2022Resident2332472.73%
2022Resident3131076.92%
2022Resident433100.00%
2022Residentnot stated901718.89%
2022Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2021Nonresident0121083.33%
2021Nonresident12150.00%
2021Nonresidentnot stated301860.00%
2021Resident013610577.21%
2021Resident1363186.11%
2021Resident21414100.00%
2021Resident322100.00%
2021Resident511100.00%
2021Residentnot stated14711678.91%
2021Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2020Nonresident06466.67%
2020Nonresident111100.00%
2020Nonresident211100.00%
2020Nonresidentnot stated302480.00%
2020Resident012912193.80%
2020Resident12929100.00%
2020Resident244100.00%
2020Resident322100.00%
2020Residentnot stated12911286.82%
2020Resident landownernot stated22100.00%
2019Nonresident01010100.00%
2019Nonresidentnot stated2929100.00%
2019Resident08686100.00%
2019Resident13030100.00%
2019Resident299100.00%
2019Resident344100.00%
2019Resident411100.00%
2019Resident511100.00%
2019Residentnot stated158158100.00%
2019Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2018Nonresident088100.00%
2018Nonresident122100.00%
2018Nonresidentnot stated1212100.00%
2018Resident0113113100.00%
2018Resident12727100.00%
2018Resident21313100.00%
2018Resident344100.00%
2018Resident422100.00%
2018Resident611100.00%
2018Residentnot stated149149100.00%
2018Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2017Nonresident022100.00%
2017Nonresident111100.00%
2017Nonresidentnot stated88100.00%
2017Resident09090100.00%
2017Resident13535100.00%
2017Resident21919100.00%
2017Resident333100.00%
2017Resident711100.00%
2017Residentnot stated148148100.00%
2017Resident landowner011100.00%
2016Nonresident055100.00%
2016Nonresident133100.00%
2016Nonresidentnot stated66100.00%
2016Resident06262100.00%
2016Resident14444100.00%
2016Resident21616100.00%
2016Resident31010100.00%
2016Resident411100.00%
2016Residentnot stated9797100.00%
2016Nonresident landowner011100.00%

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.