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Montana elk permit 620-16

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 300 on 620-16 in 2009 and drew 132, so 168 went undrawn, and 168 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; no nonresident applicant put it first; no resident applicant put it first.

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 2 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	First-choice success rate	Put it 2nd or 3rd	Drew on 2nd or 3rd
2009	Nonresident	30	—	132	132
2009	Resident	300	—	0	0
2009	Nonresident landowner	30	—	—	—
2009	Resident landowner	45	—	—	—
2008	Nonresident	30	—	103	30
2008	Resident	300	—	0	0
2008	Nonresident landowner	30	—	—	—
2008	Resident landowner	45	—	—	—

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

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

Other licences in these districts

Elk B licence 620-00 Elk B licence 620-80 Elk permit 590-21 Elk permit 595-21 Elk permit 620-00 Elk permit 620-15 Elk permit 620-20 Elk permit 620-21 Elk permit 621-00 Elk permit 621-01 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.