Montana Elk — Hunting District 404

Montana Hunting District 404 covers 1,245,436 acres and lies 26 miles north-west of Great Falls. 8% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (6%) and wildlife refuge (1%). In 2025, hunters took 3 elk here.

Public land:8% Size:1,245,436 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 404 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 404 within Montana

Hunting District 404 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 1,143,310 ac · 92%
State trust land 75,598 ac · 6%
National Wildlife Refuge 8,469 ac · 1%
Bureau of Reclamation 5,978 ac · 0%
County or city land 2,117 ac · 0%
State land 1,370 ac · 0%
BLM 871 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 124 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
National Forest 0 ac · 0%
Tribal 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.