Montana Deer — Hunting District 214

Montana Hunting District 214 covers 74,351 acres and lies 3 miles east of Anaconda and 19 miles south-east of Philipsburg. 59% of it is public land, mostly national forest (39%) and state land (15%). In 2025, 360 people hunted deer here and took 73 — 20% of them killed something.

All deer success (2025):20% Public land:59% Size:74,351 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Hunting District 214, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

1 license on offer in the 2021 draw

Chances are from the 2021 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 214-50 Deer Permit 214-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer (unlimited quota) — · 0 applicants
    No draw held
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2021 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.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2021 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.
2 hunts not offered in 2021 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $65 $65 $65

Application deadlines: Apr 1, 2027 (expected) for the main draw · Jun 1, 2027 (expected) for B license. Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Hunting District 214

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2021 draw.

The country

Anaconda Stevensville Dillon White Sulphur Springs Ronan
Hunting District 214 within Montana
319 Anaconda
Hunting District 214 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • Private 30,105 ac · 40%
  • National Forest 28,848 ac · 39%
  • State land 10,996 ac · 15%
  • County or city land 3,345 ac · 4%
  • State trust land 475 ac · 1%
  • BLM 0 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
  • Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 0 ac · 0%
  • Tribal 0 ac · 0%
  • Other public 0 ac · 0%

Source: Deer Elk Lion 2026-2027 Hunting District Landcover and Land Ownership Calculations

How the hunting has gone

What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. 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.

All deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 360 73 20%
2024 0 96
2023 334 63 19%
2022 0 73

White-tailed Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 360 59 16%
2024 0 52
2023 334 37 11%
2022 0 53

Mule Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 360 14 4%
2024 0 45
2023 334 27 8%
2022 0 20

Residents vs nonresidents (2025)

  • Nonresident 0 taken · 60 hunters
  • Resident 146 taken · 1,020 hunters

What the agency says about the area

Elk Management Unit: Flint Creek

Source: Deer and Elk Hunting Districts (2026 and 2027 Seasons)

Boundary: Deer and Elk Hunting Districts (2026 and 2027 Seasons)

Harvest: 2025 Deer Harvest Estimates (MyFWP Harvest Estimates Search, District=ALL)

Harvest: 2024 Deer Harvest Estimates (MyFWP Harvest Estimates Search, District=ALL)

Harvest: 2023 Deer Harvest Estimates (MyFWP Harvest Estimates Search, District=ALL)

How we compute draw odds · All Montana deer hunts