Montana Moose · Hunting District 105 East Cabinet Mountains

Montana Hunting District 105 covers 340,866 acres and lies 16 miles south of Libby and 27 miles south-east of Troy. 77% of it is public land, mostly national forest (74%) and state trust land (2%). In 2025, 12 people hunted moose here and took 9, a 75% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 105-50, put up 1 tag (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 128 nonresident first-choice applicants, 1 of whom drew.

Tags, 2026
1

1 license · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
128

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
75%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
77%

74% Forest Service

Size
533 mi²

340,866 acres

Libby 105
75%hunter success 2025 · 12 hunters, 9 moose

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Every License in Hunting District 105

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
105-50 <1% (small sample) —

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: 105-00, 105-10, 105-20.

Draw results: Montana FWP 2026 Moose Drawing Statistics Report, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $137.50 ($137.50 to apply). Open Mar 1 – May 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Moose Success
2025 12 9 75%
2024 12 6 50%
2023 12 7 58%
2022 12 9 75%
2021 9 4 44%
2020 11 5 45%
2019 20 2 10%
2018 20 8 40%
2017 20 12 60%
2016 20 9 45%
2015 20 9 45%
2014 20 13 65%
2013 18 12 67%
2012 19 18 95%
2011 20 15 75%
2010 20 19 95%
2009 25 22 88%
2008 23 22 96%
2007 24 22 92%
2006 25 25 100%
2005 20 20 100%

2025 split: residents 9 from 12 hunters

What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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 2005-2025 FWP Harvest Estimates export.

The Ground

National Forest 250,570 ac 74%
Private 77,547 ac 23%
State trust land 7,805 ac 2%
State land 2,590 ac <1%
County or city land 477 ac <1%
BLM 0 ac <1%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac <1%
Department of Defense 0 ac <1%
National Park Service 0 ac <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 0 ac <1%
Tribal 0 ac <1%
Other public 0 ac <1%

Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Moose Hunting District Landcover….

▸ Sources 9
  1. Montana FWP 2026 Moose Drawing Statistics Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  2. Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-113 Application fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. Montana Legislature 2026 MCA 87-2-116 Base hunting license… fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. Montana FWP 2026 Hunting Requirements fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. Montana FWP 2026 Nonresident License Fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. Montana FWP 2005-2025 FWP Harvest Estimates export harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  7. Montana FWP 2026 Moose Hunting Districts boundary, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  8. Montana FWP 2026-2027 Moose Hunting District Landcover… land ownership, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  9. Montana FWP 2026 Moose, Sheep, Goat Hunting Regulations area description, retrieved Sep 1, 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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We don't take applications: check Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks's site and apply there.

Prior-draw odds from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks' results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Montana moose hunts