Montana Elk · Hunting District 700
Montana Hunting District 700 spans 1,727,987 acres, centered 56 miles south-west of Glasgow. 37% of it is public land, mostly BLM (20%) and wildlife refuge (13%). In 2025, hunters took 588 elk here; hunter counts not published. Its most applied-for hunt, 700-00, put up 30 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 295 nonresident first-choice applicants, 28 of whom drew.
6 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
not published
23% BLM
1,727,987 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Best Bets at 0 Points
Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- —
- Season
- Sep 5 – Dec 20
- Tags / Apps
- 30 / 295
- If Drawn
- $92.50
- Success
- —
- Season
- Sep 5 – Dec 20
- Tags / Apps
- 25 / 279
- If Drawn
- $92.50
- Success
- —
- Season
- Sep 5 – Oct 18
- Tags / Apps
- 80 / 286
- If Drawn
- $92.50
Every License in Hunting District 700
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 700-00 Standard | Elk B License 700-00 — Antlerless Elk | 2% | — | |
| 700-00 Landowner | Elk B License 700-00 — Antlerless Elk | 100% | — | |
| 700-20 Standard | Elk Permit 700-20 — Either-sex Elk | <1% | — | |
| 700-20 Landowner | Elk Permit 700-20 — Either-sex Elk | 100% | — | |
| 700-21 Standard | Elk Permit 700-21 — Either-sex Elk | 2% | — | |
| 700-21 Landowner | Elk Permit 700-21 — Either-sex Elk | 100% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 700-80.
Draw results: Montana FWP 2026 Elk B License Drawing Statistics Report; Montana FWP 2026 Elk Permit Drawing Statistics Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Standard $92.50 ($92.50 to apply) · Landowner $92.50 ($92.50 to apply). Deadlines: Apr 1, 2027 (expected) for the main draw · Jun 1, 2027 (expected) for B license. Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Elk |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 588 |
| 2024 | 660 |
| 2023 | 518 |
| 2022 | 499 |
2025 split: nonresidents 93, residents 495
What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Hunter counts not published for 2025. 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. Source: Montana FWP 2025 Elk Harvest Estimates; Montana FWP 2024 Elk Harvest Estimates; Montana FWP 2023 Elk Harvest Estimates.
The Ground
| Private | 882,137 ac | 51% |
| BLM | 349,053 ac | 20% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 218,936 ac | 13% |
| State trust land | 67,564 ac | 4% |
| County or city land | 172 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 0 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Forest | 0 ac | <1% |
| State land | 0 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 0 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 0 ac | <1% |
| Private or other non-public land | 210,123 ac | 12% |
Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District….
What the Agency Says About the Area
Elk Management Unit: Missouri Rivers Breaks
▸ Sources 12
- Montana FWP 2026 Elk B License Drawing Statistics Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Elk Permit Drawing Statistics Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-113 Application fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-116 Base hunting license… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Hunting Requirements fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Nonresident License Fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2025 Elk Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2024 Elk Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2023 Elk Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2022 Elk Harvest Estimates harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Deer and Elk Hunting Districts boundary, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks' published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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