Montana Deer · Hunting District 703

Montana Hunting District 703 spans 3,497,408 acres, centered 1 miles south-west of Glendive. 16% of it is public land, mostly BLM (9%) and state trust land (6%). In 2025, 3,447 people hunted deer here and took 1,725, a 50% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 703-02, put up 90 tags (all residencies) in the 2015 draw for 63 nonresident first-choice applicants.

No more draws here. The last one was 2015.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks held its 2026 deer draw without Hunting District 703. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Montana deer hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.

Tags, 2015
180

2 licenses · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
63

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
50%

2025, all deer

Public Land
16%

9% BLM

Size
5,465 mi²

3,497,408 acres

Sidney Baker Miles City Wolf Point 703
50%hunter success 2025 · 3,447 hunters, 1,725 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, 2015 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Hunting District 703

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

The last draw held in Hunting District 703 was 2015. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.

703-02 Standard 100% —
Landowner 100% —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2015 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: Montana FWP 2015 Deer B License Drawing Statistics…, retrieved Sep 1, 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 3,447 1,725 50%
2024 — 2,236 —
2023 3,673 2,296 63%
2022 — 2,774 —

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 — 1,277 —
2024 — 1,421 —
2023 — 1,448 —
2022 — 1,665 —

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 — 448 —
2024 — 815 —
2023 — 848 —
2022 — 1,109 —

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

2025 split: nonresidents 822 from 1,301 hunters, residents 903 from 2,146 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 2,929,778 ac 84%
BLM 319,663 ac 9%
State trust land 221,385 ac 6%
State land 17,487 ac <1%
County or city land 4,196 ac <1%
Bureau of Reclamation 1,748 ac <1%
Department of Defense 0 ac <1%
National Park Service 0 ac <1%
National Forest 0 ac <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 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 Badlands

Source: Montana FWP 2026 Deer and Elk Hunting Districts.

▸ Sources 11
  1. Montana FWP 2015 Deer B License Drawing Statistics… draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 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 2015 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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