Montana Deer — Hunting District 621

Montana Hunting District 621 covers 522,323 acres and lies 50 miles south-west of Malta and 66 miles south-east of Chinook. 77% of it is public land, mostly BLM (44%) and wildlife refuge (27%). In 2025, 764 people hunted deer here and took 266 — 35% of them killed something.

All deer success (2025):35% Public land:77% Size:522,323 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered a deer license in Hunting District 621 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

Malta Lewistown Roundup Fort Benton Billings
Hunting District 621 within Montana
410 417 620 622
Hunting District 621 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

  • BLM 230,292 ac · 44%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 141,758 ac · 27%
  • Private 115,329 ac · 22%
  • State trust land 26,899 ac · 5%
  • State land 4,909 ac · 1%
  • Tribal 208 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
  • Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
  • National Forest 0 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 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 764 266 35%
2024 0 321
2023 824 320 39%
2022 0 273

Mule Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 764 229 30%
2024 0 260
2023 824 242 29%
2022 0 218

White-tailed Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 764 38 5%
2024 0 62
2023 824 78 9%
2022 0 55

Residents vs nonresidents (2025)

  • Nonresident 337 taken · 960 hunters
  • Resident 196 taken · 1,332 hunters

What the agency says about the area

Elk Management Unit: Missouri Rivers Breaks

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