Montana Deer — Hunting District 302

Montana Hunting District 302 covers 383,404 acres and lies 34 miles south-west of Dillon and 72 miles south-west of Ennis. 76% of it is public land, mostly BLM (34%) and national forest (34%). In 2025, 960 people hunted deer here and took 273 — 28% of them killed something.

Applicants:11 All deer success (2025):28% Public land:76% Size:383,404 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Hunting District 302, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

Chances are from the 2016 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level

302-50 Deer Permit 302-50 0 tags · 11 applicants

— Not open to nonresidents 0% as 2nd choice

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	As 2nd choice	Points needed	Tags / applicants
302-50 ↗ Deer Permit 302-50	Not open to nonresidents	0%	—	0 / 11

What these columns mean

Your odds: the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2016 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 2016 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 2016 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 302

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2016 draw.

B licence — Deer B License 302-00 Standard Permit — Deer Permit 302-40 (unlimited quota) Standard

The country

Hunting District 302 within Montana

Hunting District 302 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

BLM 129,897 ac · 34%
National Forest 129,168 ac · 34%
Private 87,301 ac · 23%
State trust land 29,138 ac · 8%
Bureau of Reclamation 2,760 ac · 1%
State land 191 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
County or city land 0 ac · 0%
National Wildlife Refuge 0 ac · 0%
Tribal 0 ac · 0%
Other public 0 ac · 0%
Private or other non-public land 4,946 ac · 1%

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

Nearby areas

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.