Montana Deer · Hunting District 415

Montana Hunting District 415 covers 132,269 acres and lies 45 miles south-west of Cut Bank and 54 miles north-west of Choteau. 98% of it is public land, mostly national forest (98%). In 2025, 102 people hunted deer here and took 34, a 33% success rate.

Tags
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0 licenses · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
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first choice, NR

Hunter Success
33%

2025, all deer

Public Land
98%

98% Forest Service

Size
207 mi²

132,269 acres

415
33%hunter success 2025 · 102 hunters, 34 deer

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Licenses

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered a deer license in Hunting District 415 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.

Harvest

All deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 102 34 33%
2024 — 32 —
2023 111 27 24%
2022 — 20 —

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 — 23 —
2024 — 15 —
2023 — 3 —
2022 — 13 —

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 — 11 —
2024 — 18 —
2023 — 24 —
2022 — 7 —

A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year or sub-species.

2025 split: nonresidents 3 from 3 hunters, residents 31 from 100 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 129,187 ac 98%
Private 3,002 ac 2%
National Park Service 26 ac <1%
Tribal 13 ac <1%
Other public 13 ac <1%
BLM 0 ac <1%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac <1%
Department of Defense 0 ac <1%
County or city land 0 ac <1%
State land 0 ac <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 0 ac <1%
State trust land 0 ac <1%

Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District….

What the Agency Says About the Area

Elk Management Unit: Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex

Source: Montana FWP 2026 Deer and Elk Hunting Districts.

▸ Sources 6
  1. Montana FWP 2025 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. Montana FWP 2024 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. Montana FWP 2023 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. Montana FWP 2022 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. Montana FWP 2026 Deer and Elk Hunting Districts boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

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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We don't take applications: check Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks's site and apply there.

Prior-draw odds from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks' results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Montana deer hunts