Montana Deer — Hunting District 324

Montana Hunting District 324 covers 331,147 acres and lies 15 miles south of Dillon and 49 miles south-west of Ennis. 48% of it is public land, mostly BLM (34%) and state trust land (14%). In 2025, 1,535 people hunted deer here and took 573 — 37% of them killed something. The 2021 draw put up 2 tags here for 130 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2021):4 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:131 All deer success (2025):37% Public land:48% Size:331,147 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Hunting District 324, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

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

324-50 Deer Permit 324-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer 2 tags · 130 applicants · Standard

<1% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
324-50 Deer Permit 324-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer 2 tags · 1 applicants · Landowner

100% Undersubscribed

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	As 2nd choice	Points needed	Tags / applicants	License	Season
324-50 ↗ Deer Permit 324-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer	<1% Point builder	0%	—	2 / 130	Standard	Sep 4 – Dec 19, 2021
324-50 ↗ Deer Permit 324-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer	100% Undersubscribed	—	—	2 / 1 undersubscribed	Landowner	Sep 4 – Dec 19, 2021

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.
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 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
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 324

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

B licence — Deer B License 324-00 Standard B licence — Deer B License 324-01 Standard

The country

Hunting District 324 within Montana

Hunting District 324 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 171,269 ac · 52%
BLM 111,894 ac · 34%
State trust land 46,989 ac · 14%
Bureau of Reclamation 463 ac · 0%
County or city land 231 ac · 0%
State land 99 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
National Forest 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

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.