Montana Deer — Hunting District 451
Montana Hunting District 451 covers 90,875 acres and lies 17 miles south of White Sulphur Springs and 27 miles east of Townsend. 17% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (10%) and national forest (6%). In 2025, 144 people hunted deer here and took 46 — 32% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered a deer license in Hunting District 451 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
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 75,117 ac · 83%
- State trust land 9,078 ac · 10%
- National Forest 5,679 ac · 6%
- BLM 981 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%
- State 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
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.
All deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | 46 | 32% |
| 2024 | 0 | 49 | — |
| 2023 | 104 | 39 | 38% |
| 2022 | 0 | 29 | — |
Mule Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | 42 | 29% |
| 2024 | 0 | 30 | — |
| 2023 | 104 | 23 | 22% |
| 2022 | 0 | 16 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | 3 | 2% |
| 2024 | 0 | 20 | — |
| 2023 | 104 | 17 | 16% |
| 2022 | 0 | 13 | — |
Residents vs nonresidents (2025)
- Nonresident 0 taken · 27 hunters
- Resident 91 taken · 405 hunters
What the agency says about the area
Elk Management Unit: Bridger
Source: Deer and Elk Hunting Districts (2026 and 2027 Seasons)
Boundary: Deer and Elk Hunting Districts (2026 and 2027 Seasons)
Harvest: 2025 Deer Harvest Estimates (MyFWP Harvest Estimates Search, District=ALL)
Harvest: 2024 Deer Harvest Estimates (MyFWP Harvest Estimates Search, District=ALL)
Harvest: 2023 Deer Harvest Estimates (MyFWP Harvest Estimates Search, District=ALL)