Montana Moose · Hunting District 422 S. Rocky Mtn. Front

Montana Hunting District 422 covers 503,097 acres and lies 34 miles south-west of Choteau and 60 miles west of Great Falls. 55% of it is public land, mostly national forest (42%) and state trust land (7%). In 2025, 1 person hunted moose here and took 1. Its most applied-for hunt, 422-50, put up 1 tag (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 84 nonresident first-choice applicants.

Tags, 2026
1

1 license · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
84

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
—

not published

Public Land
55%

42% Forest Service

Size
786 mi²

503,097 acres

Choteau 422

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

Every License in Hunting District 422

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
422-50 <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.

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 1 1 100%
2024 1 1 100%
2023 1 1 100%
2022 0 0 —

2025 split: residents 1 from 1 hunter

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

Private 224,381 ac 45%
National Forest 208,785 ac 42%
State trust land 37,380 ac 7%
State land 15,847 ac 3%
BLM 10,363 ac 2%
Bureau of Reclamation 3,169 ac <1%
County or city land 50 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 2023 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