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Montana Deer · Hunting District 600

Montana Hunting District 600 spans 1,959,588 acres, centered 17 miles north of Havre. 20% of it is public land, mostly BLM (10%) and state trust land (8%). In 2025, 1,998 people hunted deer here and took 1,054, a 53% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 600-01, put up 50 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 66 nonresident first-choice applicants, 65 of whom drew.

Tags, 2026
100

2 licenses · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
67

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
53%

2025, all deer

Public Land
20%

10% BLM

Size
3,062 mi²

1,959,588 acres

Havre Fort Benton 600
53%hunter success 2025 · 1,998 hunters, 1,054 deer

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 600

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
600-01 Standard 65% —
Landowner 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. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 600-00.

Draw results: Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics…, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $92.50 ($92.50 to apply) · Landowner $92.50 ($92.50 to apply). Open Mar 1 – Apr 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

All deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 1,998 1,054 53%
2024 — 1,396 —
2023 2,398 1,551 65%
2022 — 1,579 —

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 — 783 —
2024 — 865 —
2023 — 1,021 —
2022 — 999 —

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 — 272 —
2024 — 531 —
2023 — 530 —
2022 — 580 —

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

2025 split: nonresidents 238 from 315 hunters, residents 816 from 1,683 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 1,558,264 ac 80%
BLM 197,722 ac 10%
State trust land 159,314 ac 8%
Bureau of Reclamation 25,474 ac 1%
State land 6,074 ac <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 1,959 ac <1%
County or city land 1,175 ac <1%
Department of Defense 587 ac <1%
National Park Service 0 ac <1%
National Forest 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: Prairie Ag

Source: Montana FWP 2026 Deer and Elk Hunting Districts.

▸ Sources 11
  1. Montana FWP 2026 Deer B License Drawing Statistics… draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-113 Application fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-116 Base hunting license… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. Montana FWP 2026 Hunting Requirements fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. Montana FWP 2026 Nonresident License Fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. Montana FWP 2025 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. Montana FWP 2024 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. Montana FWP 2023 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. Montana FWP 2022 Deer Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. Montana FWP 2026 Deer and Elk Hunting Districts boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  11. 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.

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