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.

All deer success (2025):32% Public land:17% Size:90,875 acres

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

White Sulphur Springs Manhattan Ennis Great Falls Lewistown
Hunting District 451 within Montana
390 391 452
Hunting District 451 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 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)

How we compute draw odds · All Montana deer hunts