Montana Deer — Hunting District 300
The 2026 draw put up 3 tags here for 79 first-choice applicants.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in Hunting District 300, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.
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-
<1% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
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100% No first-choice applicants
| Hunt | Your odds (0 pts) | As 2nd choice | Points needed | Tags / applicants | License | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300-50 ↗ Deer Permit 300-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer [MULE] | <1% Point builder | 0% | — | 3 / 79 | Standard | Sep 5 – Dec 20, 2026 |
| 300-50 ↗ Deer Permit 300-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer [MULE] | 100% No first-choice applicants | — | — | 3 / 0 | Landowner | Sep 5 – Dec 20, 2026 |
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.
What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)
| License | Up front | Gone if you miss | If you draw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard license | $65 | $65 | $65 |
| Landowner license | $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 300
Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.
The country
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks does not publish a mapped boundary for Hunting District 300, so there is no map to draw.
What the agency says about the area
HD 300 (Medicine Lodge-Upper Horse Prairie), used for Deer Permit 300-50 (Antlered Buck Mule Deer). Not present as its own feature in the FWP deer/elk hunting-district boundary layer (it is a polygon in the separate antelope hunting-district layer, same code 300); no deer/elk-specific boundary is asserted here.
Source: 2025 Montana Deer, Elk, Antelope Hunting Regulations