Montana Elk — Hunting District 421

Montana Hunting District 421 covers 519,303 acres and lies 32 miles south-west of Great Falls and 48 miles north of Helena. 12% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (9%) and national forest (1%). In 2025, hunters took 184 elk here.

Public land:12% Size:519,303 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 421 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 421 within Montana

Hunting District 421 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 457,195 ac · 88%
State trust land 46,633 ac · 9%
National Forest 5,868 ac · 1%
BLM 4,466 ac · 1%
County or city land 2,804 ac · 1%
State land 1,817 ac · 0%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
National Wildlife Refuge 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.