Montana Deer — Hunting District 304

Montana Hunting District 304 covers 280,883 acres and lies 18 miles north-east of Ennis. 45% of it is public land, mostly national forest (37%) and BLM (3%). In 2025, 462 people hunted deer here and took 185 — 40% of them killed something.

All deer success (2025):40% Public land:45% Size:280,883 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered a deer license in Hunting District 304 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Montana deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Ennis Belgrade West Yellowstone Townsend Red Lodge
Hunting District 304 within Montana
301 309 310 311 313 314 320 322 360 Ennis Bozeman Belgrade Manhattan Whitehall
Hunting District 304 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 154,542 ac · 55%
  • National Forest 104,685 ac · 37%
  • BLM 9,241 ac · 3%
  • State land 7,162 ac · 3%
  • State trust land 4,971 ac · 2%
  • County or city land 56 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 462 185 40%
2024 0 188
2023 490 168 34%
2022 0 181

White-tailed Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 462 110 24%
2024 0 85
2023 490 105 21%
2022 0 73

Mule Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 462 74 16%
2024 0 103
2023 490 63 13%
2022 0 108

Residents vs nonresidents (2025)

  • Nonresident 52 taken · 144 hunters
  • Resident 318 taken · 1,242 hunters

What the agency says about the area

Elk Management Unit: Lower Madison

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