Montana Elk — Hunting District 405

Montana Hunting District 405 covers 301,645 acres and lies 18 miles north-east of Great Falls and 58 miles east of Choteau. 9% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (5%) and BLM (1%). In 2025, hunters took 18 elk here.

Public land:9% Size:301,645 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 405 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 405 within Montana

Hunting District 405 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 274,015 ac · 91%
State trust land 15,836 ac · 5%
BLM 3,861 ac · 1%
Department of Defense 3,257 ac · 1%
County or city land 1,417 ac · 0%
State land 1,387 ac · 0%
National Wildlife Refuge 331 ac · 0%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 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.