Montana Deer · Hunting District 404
Montana Hunting District 404 spans 1,245,436 acres, centered 26 miles north-west of Great Falls. 8% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (6%) and wildlife refuge (1%). In 2025, 1,850 people hunted deer here and took 994, a 54% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 404-00, put up 10 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 14 nonresident first-choice applicants, 2 of whom drew.
2 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all deer
6% State
1,245,436 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
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 404
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 404-00 Standard | Deer B License 404-00 — Antlerless Mule Deer | 24% | — | |
| 404-00 Landowner | Deer B License 404-00 — Antlerless 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: 404-01.
Draw results: Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics…, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $92.50 ($92.50 to apply) · Landowner $92.50 ($92.50 to apply). Open Mar 1 – Apr 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
All deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,850 | 994 | 54% |
| 2024 | — | 1,227 | — |
| 2023 | 1,812 | 1,216 | 67% |
| 2022 | — | 1,205 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 503 | — |
| 2024 | — | 574 | — |
| 2023 | — | 580 | — |
| 2022 | — | 710 | — |
Mule Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 491 | — |
| 2024 | — | 653 | — |
| 2023 | — | 636 | — |
| 2022 | — | 496 | — |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year or sub-species.
2025 split: nonresidents 89 from 129 hunters, residents 906 from 1,720 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
| Private | 1,143,310 ac | 92% |
| State trust land | 75,598 ac | 6% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 8,469 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 5,978 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 2,117 ac | <1% |
| State land | 1,370 ac | <1% |
| BLM | 871 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 124 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Forest | 0 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 0 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 0 ac | <1% |
Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District….
What the Agency Says About the Area
Elk Management Unit: Golden Triangle
▸ Sources 11
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics… 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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