Montana Elk — Hunting District 515

Montana Hunting District 515 covers 1,615,056 acres and lies 25 miles north of Columbus and 34 miles north-west of Laurel. 7% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (6%). In 2025, hunters took 340 elk here.

Public land:7% Size:1,615,056 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 515 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 515 within Montana

Hunting District 515 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 1,488,112 ac · 92%
State trust land 100,941 ac · 6%
BLM 6,783 ac · 0%
National Wildlife Refuge 6,460 ac · 0%
County or city land 3,714 ac · 0%
State land 2,745 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%
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.