Montana · Elk · District 343

Montana elk permit 343-00

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 2009 drawing did

Montana set a quota of 600 on 343-00 in 2009 and drew 535, so 65 went undrawn, and 65 went to the surplus list. 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%; 12 nonresident applicants put it first and 12 drew, 100.00%; 363 resident applicants put it first and 363 drew, 100.00%.

This licence code stops appearing after 2009. 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 4 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.
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
2009	Nonresident	60	12	12	100.00%	2	2
2009	Resident	600	363	363	100.00%	157	157
2009	Nonresident landowner	60	0	0	—	—	—
2009	Resident landowner	90	1	1	100.00%	—	—
2008	Nonresident	45	16	16	100.00%	2	1
2008	Resident	450	356	356	100.00%	158	77
2008	Nonresident landowner	45	0	0	—	—	—
2008	Resident landowner	68	0	0	—	—	—
2007	Nonresident	35	16	13	81.25%	0	0
2007	Resident	350	382	337	88.22%	231	0
2007	Nonresident landowner	35	0	0	—	—	—
2007	Resident landowner	53	0	0	—	—	—
2006	Nonresident	35	10	10	100.00%	7	0
2006	Resident	350	321	321	100.00%	191	19
2006	Nonresident landowner	35	0	0	—	—	—
2006	Resident landowner	53	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
2009	Nonresident	0	4	4	100.00%
2009	Nonresident	not stated	8	8	100.00%
2009	Resident	0	105	105	100.00%
2009	Resident	1	13	13	100.00%
2009	Resident	2	4	4	100.00%
2009	Resident	3	2	2	100.00%
2009	Resident	4	1	1	100.00%
2009	Resident	not stated	238	238	100.00%
2009	Resident landowner	not stated	1	1	100.00%
2008	Nonresident	0	2	2	100.00%
2008	Nonresident	not stated	14	14	100.00%
2008	Resident	0	106	106	100.00%
2008	Resident	1	22	22	100.00%
2008	Resident	2	7	7	100.00%
2008	Resident	3	3	3	100.00%
2008	Resident	4	1	1	100.00%
2008	Resident	not stated	217	217	100.00%
2007	Nonresident	0	4	4	100.00%
2007	Nonresident	not stated	12	9	75.00%
2007	Resident	0	89	76	85.39%
2007	Resident	1	15	15	100.00%
2007	Resident	2	7	7	100.00%
2007	Resident	3	4	4	100.00%
2007	Resident	4	4	4	100.00%
2007	Resident	not stated	263	231	87.83%
2006	Nonresident	0	4	4	100.00%
2006	Nonresident	not stated	6	6	100.00%
2006	Resident	0	98	98	100.00%
2006	Resident	1	13	13	100.00%
2006	Resident	2	3	3	100.00%
2006	Resident	3	4	4	100.00%
2006	Resident	not stated	203	203	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.

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

2009 ELK PERMIT STATS.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2009-07-21, fetched 2026-09-03
2008 ELK_PERMIT_stats for update.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2008-07-22, fetched 2026-09-03
2007 ELK_PERMIT_stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2007-07-23, fetched 2026-09-03
2006 ELK_PERMIT_stats.pdf — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2006-07-25, fetched 2026-09-03
2009 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2009-07-23, fetched 2026-09-03
2008 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2008-07-31, fetched 2026-09-03
2007 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2007-10-30, fetched 2026-09-03
2006 dea detailed statistics.xls — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, dated 2006-09-11, fetched 2026-09-03

Other licences in these districts

Elk B licence 343-00 Elk B licence 343-80 Elk permit 339-00 Elk permit 339-20 Elk permit 340-10 Elk permit 341-10 Elk permit 361-10 Elk permit 362-00 Elk permit 362-11 Elk permit 370-10 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.