Montana Deer · Hunting District 319
Montana Hunting District 319 covers 397,284 acres and lies 12 miles south-east of Anaconda and 31 miles south-east of Philipsburg. 78% of it is public land, mostly national forest (54%) and state land (17%). In 2025, 772 people hunted deer here and took 166, a 22% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 319-50, put up 12 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 74 nonresident first-choice applicants, 12 of whom drew.
4 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all deer
54% Forest Service
397,284 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
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Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in Hunting District 319
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 319-01 Standard | Deer B License 319-01 — Antlerless Mule Deer | 3% | — | |
| 319-01 Landowner | Deer B License 319-01 — Antlerless Mule Deer | 100% | — | |
| 319-50 Standard | Deer Permit 319-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer | 3% | — | |
| 319-50 Landowner | Deer Permit 319-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer | 100% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 319-00, 319-40.
Draw results: Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics…; Montana FWP 2026 Deer Permit Drawing Statistics Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $92.50 ($92.50 to apply) · Landowner $92.50 ($92.50 to apply). Deadlines: Apr 1, 2027 (expected) for the main draw · Jun 1, 2027 (expected) for B license. Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
All deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 772 | 166 | 22% |
| 2024 | — | 152 | — |
| 2023 | 694 | 122 | 18% |
| 2022 | — | 130 | — |
Mule Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 89 | — |
| 2024 | — | 94 | — |
| 2023 | — | 67 | — |
| 2022 | — | 106 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 77 | — |
| 2024 | — | 58 | — |
| 2023 | — | 56 | — |
| 2022 | — | 24 | — |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year or sub-species.
2025 split: nonresidents 23 from 85 hunters, residents 143 from 687 hunters
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 2025 Deer Harvest Estimates; Montana FWP 2024 Deer Harvest Estimates; Montana FWP 2023 Deer Harvest Estimates.
The Ground
| National Forest | 214,533 ac | 54% |
| Private | 86,329 ac | 22% |
| State land | 66,306 ac | 17% |
| BLM | 21,254 ac | 5% |
| State trust land | 6,594 ac | 2% |
| County or city land | 1,668 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 39 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 0 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 0 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 0 ac | <1% |
Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District….
What the Agency Says About the Area
Elk Management Unit: Fleecer
▸ Sources 12
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics… draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer Permit Drawing Statistics Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 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 2025 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2024 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2023 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2022 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer and Elk Hunting Districts boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 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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