Montana Deer — Hunting District 420

Montana Hunting District 420 covers 49,565 acres and lies 39 miles west of Lewistown. 53% of it is public land, mostly national forest (27%) and state land (17%). In 2025, 382 people hunted deer here and took 130 — 34% of them killed something.

All deer success (2025):34% Public land:53% Size:49,565 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered a deer license in Hunting District 420 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

Hunting District 420 within Montana

Hunting District 420 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 23,266 ac · 47%
National Forest 13,615 ac · 27%
State land 8,659 ac · 17%
State trust land 3,539 ac · 7%
BLM 470 ac · 1%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
County or city land 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.