Montana Deer · Hunting District 705
Montana Hunting District 705 spans 3,949,547 acres, centered 55 miles south-west of Baker. 30% of it is public land, mostly BLM (20%) and state trust land (7%). In 2025, 3,585 people hunted deer here and took 2,261, a 63% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 705-02, put up 1,150 tags (all residencies) in the 2015 draw for 207 nonresident first-choice applicants, 201 of whom drew.
No more draws here. The last one was 2015.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks held its 2026 deer draw without Hunting District 705. 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.
2 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
2025, all deer
21% BLM
3,949,547 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, 2015 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in Hunting District 705
The last draw held in Hunting District 705 was 2015. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 705-02 Standard | Deer B License 705-02 | 100% | — | |
| 705-02 Landowner | Deer B License 705-02 | 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 | 3,585 | 2,261 | 63% |
| 2024 | — | 2,273 | — |
| 2023 | 3,682 | 2,108 | 57% |
| 2022 | — | 2,583 | — |
Mule Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 1,463 | — |
| 2024 | — | 1,374 | — |
| 2023 | — | 1,294 | — |
| 2022 | — | 1,759 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 798 | — |
| 2024 | — | 899 | — |
| 2023 | — | 814 | — |
| 2022 | — | 824 | — |
A dash under Hunters: hunter counts not published for that year or sub-species.
2025 split: nonresidents 1,604 from 2,234 hunters, residents 657 from 1,351 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 | 2,750,860 ac | 70% |
| BLM | 808,867 ac | 20% |
| State trust land | 292,266 ac | 7% |
| National Forest | 90,444 ac | 2% |
| County or city land | 4,739 ac | <1% |
| State land | 395 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 0 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 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: Southeastern Montana
▸ Sources 11
- Montana FWP 2015 Deer B License Drawing Statistics… draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 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 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.
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