Montana Elk — Hunting District 444

Montana Hunting District 444 covers 310,910 acres and lies 20 miles south of Choteau and 38 miles west of Great Falls. 16% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (11%) and Bureau of Reclamation (4%). In 2025, hunters took 22 elk here.

Public land:16% Size:310,910 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 444 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 444 within Montana

Hunting District 444 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 257,962 ac · 83%
State trust land 32,987 ac · 11%
Bureau of Reclamation 13,524 ac · 4%
State land 2,238 ac · 1%
BLM 746 ac · 0%
County or city land 62 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
National Forest 0 ac · 0%
National Wildlife Refuge 0 ac · 0%
Tribal 0 ac · 0%
Other public 0 ac · 0%
Private or other non-public land 3,388 ac · 1%

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.