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Montana · Elk · District 313

Montana elk permit 313-10

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 2015 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 30 on 313-10 in 2015 and drew 30 — the quota filled. Across the four pools FWP draws separately, no nonresident landowner applicant put it first; 1 resident landowner applicant put it first and 1 drew, 100.00%; 3 nonresident applicants put it first and 1 drew, 33.33%; 132 resident applicants put it first and 28 drew, 21.21%.

This licence code stops appearing after 2015. 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 6 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
2015Nonresident33133.33%20
2015Resident301322821.21%390
2015Nonresident landowner300———
2015Resident landowner511100.00%——
2009Nonresident18112.50%60
2009Resident15981414.29%1580
2009Nonresident landowner100———
2009Resident landowner200———
2008Nonresident11317.69%110
2008Resident15841416.67%2110
2008Nonresident landowner100———
2008Resident landowner200———
2007Nonresident1500.00%120
2007Resident15781519.23%2460
2007Nonresident landowner100———
2007Resident landowner200———
2006Nonresident19111.11%100
2006Resident15701420.00%1990
2006Nonresident landowner100———
2006Resident landowner200———

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
2015Nonresident1100.00%
2015Nonresidentnot stated2150.00%
2015Resident059813.56%
2015Resident116956.25%
2015Resident27457.14%
2015Resident311100.00%
2015Residentnot stated49612.24%
2015Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2014Nonresident0100.00%
2014Nonresidentnot stated200.00%
2014Resident039820.51%
2014Resident115960.00%
2014Resident24250.00%
2014Resident35360.00%
2014Residentnot stated34720.59%
2014Resident landownernot stated11100.00%
2009Nonresident0100.00%
2009Nonresident1200.00%
2009Nonresident3100.00%
2009Nonresidentnot stated4125.00%
2009Resident02214.55%
2009Resident110330.00%
2009Resident210330.00%
2009Resident33133.33%
2009Resident47114.29%
2009Resident53266.67%
2009Resident66350.00%
2009Residentnot stated3700.00%
2008Nonresident1100.00%
2008Nonresident2100.00%
2008Nonresident4100.00%
2008Nonresidentnot stated10110.00%
2008Resident019315.79%
2008Resident11119.09%
2008Resident210110.00%
2008Resident311218.18%
2008Resident45240.00%
2008Resident56116.67%
2008Residentnot stated22418.18%
2007Nonresident0100.00%
2007Nonresident3100.00%
2007Nonresidentnot stated300.00%
2007Resident025520.00%
2007Resident1700.00%
2007Resident28112.50%
2007Resident36233.33%
2007Resident410440.00%
2007Residentnot stated22313.64%
2006Nonresident04125.00%
2006Nonresident1200.00%
2006Nonresident2200.00%
2006Nonresidentnot stated100.00%
2006Resident013430.77%
2006Resident116212.50%
2006Resident29222.22%
2006Resident315533.33%
2006Residentnot stated1715.88%

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.