Montana Bighorn Sheep · Hunting District 424 Ford Creek
Montana Hunting District 424 covers 291,206 acres and lies 32 miles south-west of Choteau and 58 miles south-west of Conrad. 67% of it is public land, mostly national forest (48%) and state trust land (10%). In 2025, 1 person hunted bighorn sheep here and took 1. Its most applied-for hunt, 424-20, put up 1 tag (all residencies) in the 2024 draw for 560 nonresident first-choice applicants, 1 of whom drew.
No more draws here. The last one was 2024.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks held its 2026 bighorn sheep draw without Hunting District 424. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Montana bighorn sheep hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
1 license · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
not published
49% Forest Service
291,206 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in Hunting District 424
The last draw held in Hunting District 424 was 2024. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 424-20 | Bighorn Sheep License 424-20 — Any Ram | 0% (small sample) | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2024 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2024 result: 424-00, 424-30.
Draw results: Montana FWP 2024 Bighorn Sheep Drawing Statistics Report, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $137.50 ($137.50 to apply). Open Mar 1 – May 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| 2016 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2014 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| 2012 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| 2011 | 6 | 4 | 67% |
| 2010 | 20 | 18 | 90% |
| 2009 | 27 | 22 | 81% |
| 2008 | 23 | 16 | 70% |
| 2007 | 19 | 15 | 79% |
| 2006 | 15 | 14 | 93% |
| 2005 | 16 | 14 | 88% |
2025 split: residents 1 from 1 hunter
What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Montana's figures blend mandatory reporting with a phone and mail survey. FWP does not publish district-level hunter counts for elk or antelope, so success rates are missing for those. Source: Montana FWP 2005-2025 FWP Harvest Estimates export.
The Ground
| National Forest | 141,031 ac | 48% |
| Private | 91,904 ac | 32% |
| State trust land | 28,247 ac | 10% |
| State land | 15,870 ac | 5% |
| BLM | 7,513 ac | 3% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 3,145 ac | 1% |
| County or city land | 29 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 0 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 0 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 0 ac | <1% |
| Private or other non-public land | 3,465 ac | 1% |
Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Bighorn sheep Hunting District….
▸ Sources 9
- Montana FWP 2024 Bighorn Sheep Drawing Statistics Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-113 Application fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-116 Base hunting license… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Hunting Requirements fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Nonresident License Fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2005-2025 FWP Harvest Estimates export harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Bighorn Sheep Hunting Districts boundary, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026-2027 Bighorn sheep Hunting District… land ownership, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Moose, Sheep, Goat Hunting Regulations area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2024 draw, the latest on file, computed from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks' published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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