Montana Deer · Hunting District 535
Montana Hunting District 535 spans 1,771,641 acres, centered 17 miles north-west of Roundup. 17% of it is public land, mostly BLM (7%) and state trust land (6%). In 2025, 1,219 people hunted deer here and took 571, a 47% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 535-50, put up 50 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 113 nonresident first-choice applicants, 46 of whom drew.
4 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all deer
8% BLM
1,771,641 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 535
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 535-00 Standard | Deer B License 535-00 — Antlerless Mule Deer | 9% | — | |
| 535-00 Landowner | Deer B License 535-00 — Antlerless Mule Deer | 100% | — | |
| 535-50 Standard | Deer Permit 535-50 — Antlered Buck Mule Deer | 11% | — | |
| 535-50 Landowner | Deer Permit 535-50 — Antlered Buck 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.
Draw results: Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics…; Montana FWP 2026 Deer Permit Drawing Statistics Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $92.50 ($92.50 to apply) · Landowner $92.50 ($92.50 to apply). Deadlines: Apr 1, 2027 (expected) for the main draw · Jun 1, 2027 (expected) for B license. Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
All deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,219 | 571 | 47% |
| 2024 | — | 609 | — |
| 2023 | 1,421 | 762 | 54% |
| 2022 | — | 702 | — |
Mule Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 311 | — |
| 2024 | — | 264 | — |
| 2023 | — | 423 | — |
| 2022 | — | 392 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 260 | — |
| 2024 | — | 345 | — |
| 2023 | — | 339 | — |
| 2022 | — | 310 | — |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year or sub-species.
2025 split: nonresidents 125 from 139 hunters, residents 446 from 1,081 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 | 1,455,935 ac | 82% |
| BLM | 132,341 ac | 7% |
| State trust land | 107,361 ac | 6% |
| National Forest | 51,731 ac | 3% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 10,807 ac | <1% |
| State land | 6,555 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 885 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 0 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 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: Snowy
▸ Sources 12
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics… draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer Permit Drawing Statistics Report 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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