Montana Elk — Hunting District 403

Montana Hunting District 403 covers 422,958 acres and lies 14 miles north-east of Cut Bank and 42 miles north of Conrad. 11% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (8%) and BLM (3%). In 2025, hunters took 10 elk here.

Public land:11% Size:422,958 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 403 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Montana elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Hunting District 403 within Montana

Hunting District 403 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

Private 370,850 ac · 88%
State trust land 33,371 ac · 8%
BLM 13,830 ac · 3%
County or city land 972 ac · 0%
Tribal 719 ac · 0%
National Wildlife Refuge 42 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%
State land 0 ac · 0%
Other public 0 ac · 0%

Source: Deer Elk Lion 2026-2027 Hunting District Landcover and Land Ownership Calculations

Nearby areas

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.