Montana Elk — Hunting District 705

Montana Hunting District 705 covers 3,949,547 acres and lies 55 miles south-west of Baker and 75 miles south-east of Miles City. 30% of it is public land, mostly BLM (20%) and state trust land (7%). In 2025, hunters took 145 elk here.

Public land:30% Size:3,949,547 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 705 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 705 within Montana

Hunting District 705 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 2,750,860 ac · 70%
BLM 808,867 ac · 20%
State trust land 292,266 ac · 7%
National Forest 90,444 ac · 2%
County or city land 4,739 ac · 0%
State land 395 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.