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Montana Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds

Enter your points, see your chance of drawing every bighorn sheep tag in Montana — straight from the 2026 draw results.

Next application:opens Mar 1, closes May 1, 2027 (expected) Cost to apply:$110 ($110 if you miss) Tags (2026):7 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:7,705

* Projected from this year's calendar; the agency sets next year's exact dates.

How the Montana draw works (30-second version)

Bonus points (squared).

Every applicant gets points² + 1 entries in a random draw, so more points mean more chances — but never a guarantee.

Full mechanics, fees, and deadlines →

How much these move year to year: last year's odds missed by <1% for the typical applicant (most people sit right at the cut). Details

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 100-20 Bighorn Sheep License 100-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 102-20 Bighorn Sheep License 102-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 121-20 Bighorn Sheep License 121-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 122-20 Bighorn Sheep License 122-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 123-20 Bighorn Sheep License 123-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 124-20 Bighorn Sheep License 124-20 — Any Ram 1 tags · 1,453 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 124-30 Bighorn Sheep License 124-30 — Adult Ewe [ADULT EWE] 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 203-20 Bighorn Sheep License 203-20 — Any Ram 1 tags · 1,285 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 210-20 Bighorn Sheep License 210-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 214-60 Bighorn Sheep License 214-60 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 250-20 Bighorn Sheep License 250-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 261-20 Bighorn Sheep License 261-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 270-20 Bighorn Sheep License 270-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 270-30 Bighorn Sheep License 270-30 — Adult Ewe [ADULT EWE] 1 tags · 66 applicants
    <1% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • 300-60 Bighorn Sheep License 300-60 — Legal Ram (unlimited quota) — · 27 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • 301-20 Bighorn Sheep License 301-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 302-20 Bighorn Sheep License 302-20 — Any Ram 1 tags · 497 applicants
    <1% Point builder
  • 303-60 Bighorn Sheep License 303-60 — Legal Ram (unlimited quota) — · 38 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • 304-20 Bighorn Sheep License 304-20 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 305-10 Bighorn Sheep License 305-10 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 330-10 Bighorn Sheep License 330-10 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 340-20 Bighorn Sheep License 340-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 380-10 Bighorn Sheep License 380-10 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 381-10 Bighorn Sheep License 381-10 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 421-20 Bighorn Sheep License 421-20 — Any Ram 1 tags · 639 applicants
    0% Point builder
  • 422-20 Bighorn Sheep License 422-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 423-20 Bighorn Sheep License 423-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 424-20 Bighorn Sheep License 424-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 441-20 Bighorn Sheep License 441-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 455-20 Bighorn Sheep License 455-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 482-20 Bighorn Sheep License 482-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 482-30 Bighorn Sheep License 482-30 — Adult Ewe [ADULT EWE] 1 tags · 30 applicants
    <1% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • 500-60 Bighorn Sheep License 500-60 — Legal Ram (unlimited quota) — · 37 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • 501-60 Bighorn Sheep License 501-60 — Legal Ram (unlimited quota) — · 55 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • 502-60 Bighorn Sheep License 502-60 — Legal Ram (unlimited quota) — · 19 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed
  • 503-20 Bighorn Sheep License 503-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 620-20 Bighorn Sheep License 620-20 — Any Ram 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 680-20 Bighorn Sheep License 680-20 — Any Ram 1 tags · 3,559 applicants
    0% Point builder
  • 680-30 Bighorn Sheep License 680-30 — Adult Ewe [ADULT EWE] 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
  • 680-31 Bighorn Sheep License 680-31 — Adult Ewe [ADULT EWE] 0 tags · 0 applicants
    — Not open to nonresidents
What these columns mean
Your odds
—
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
—
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
—
Montana lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
—
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
—
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
67 hunts not offered in 2026 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

Browse by hunt area

Each area has its own page: where it is on the map, how much of it is public land, what the hunters who went there killed last season, and every license type you can apply for inside it.

100 Kootenai Falls 92% public 101 80% public 102 Galton Range 80% public 121 North Clark Fork 59% public 122 Clark Fork Cut-Off 67% public 123 Cabinet Mountains 85% public 124 Paradise 53% public 203 Grave Creek Range 83% public 210 John Long Range 90% public 212 Garrison 213 214 South Flint Range 53% public 216 West Rock Creek-Quigg Peak 250 West Fork Bitterroot 97% public 261 Skalkaho 57% public 270 East Fork Bitterroot 91% public 283 300 Gallatin-Yellowstone 75% public 301 Spanish Peaks 45% public 302 Hilgards 83% public 303 South Absaroka 90% public 304 Hyalite 53% public 305 South Yellowstone 62% public 315 330 Greenhorn 54% public 340 Highland 58% public 380 Radersburg 42% public 381 Sleeping Giant 29% public 421 Deep Creek 100% public 422 Castle Reef 35% public 423 Gibson Lake North 99% public 424 Ford Creek 67% public 441 North Fork Birch 37% public 455 Beartooth WMA 39% public 482 Fergus 28% public 500 Boulder 100% public 501 Beartooth Mountains 69% public 502 Hellroaring 76% public 503 Pryor Mountains 81% public 620 Little Rockies 51% public 622 Middle Missouri 75% public 680 Chouteau-Blaine-Phillips 57% public
Spot a data error on this page? Tell us.

Every report is checked against the agency source before we change anything.

How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

Not an application service

This page is informational only. Draw rules, quotas, fees, and deadlines are set by the state agency and change by commission action — confirm everything on the agency's own site before you apply, and apply through the agency, not here. We disclaim all liability for reliance on this page.