Montana · Elk · District 101

Montana elk permit 101-50

How many people put this elk permitfirst 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

FWP drew 101-50 without a limit in 2026 and issued 412 licences. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; no resident landowner applicant put it first; 14 nonresident applicants put it first and 14 drew, 100.00%; 282 resident applicants put it first and 282 drew, 100.00%.

Published in 1 of the drawing years FWP has posted, 2026 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.
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
2026	Nonresident	no limit	14	14	100.00%	7	7
2026	Resident	no limit	282	282	100.00%	109	109
2026	Nonresident landowner	no limit	0	0	—	—	—
2026	Resident landowner	no limit	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.

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.
Year	Pool	Bonus points	Applied	Drew	Drew at this level
2026	Nonresident	0	14	14	100.00%
2026	Resident	0	282	282	100.00%

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.

No limit is a district FWP drew without a quota. Its reports print a sentinel in the quota column for these and footnote their own totals to exclude them, so no quota is shown rather than the sentinel's digits.

Sources for this licence

2026 Elk Permit Drawing Statistics Report.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2026-04-17, fetched 2026-09-03
2026 Elk Permit Detailed Bonus Point Drawing Statistics.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2026-04-17, fetched 2026-09-03

Other licences in these districts

Elk B licence 101-00 Elk B licence 101-01 Elk B licence 101-02 Elk B licence 101-80 Elk B licence 101-81 Elk B licence 101-82 Elk permit 101-00 Elk permit 101-01 Elk permit 101-02 Elk permit 101-03 All Montana elk All Montana species

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.