Montana Mountain Goat · Hunting District 518 Froze-to-Death
Montana Hunting District 518 covers 61,469 acres and lies 26 miles west of Red Lodge and 43 miles south-west of Columbus. 98% of it is public land, mostly national forest (98%). In 2025, 2 people hunted mountain goat here and took 2. Its most applied-for hunt, 518-20, put up 1 tag (all residencies) in the 2021 draw for 197 nonresident first-choice applicants, 1 of whom drew.
No more draws here. The last one was 2021.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks held its 2026 mountain goat draw without Hunting District 518. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Montana mountain goat hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
1 license · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
not published
100% Forest Service
61,469 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Every License in Hunting District 518
The last draw held in Hunting District 518 was 2021. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 518-20 | Mountain Goat License 518-20 — Either-sex | <1% (small sample) | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2021 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2021 result: 518-00.
Draw results: Montana FWP 2021 Mountain Goat 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 | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 2015 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2011 | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 | 100% |
| 2008 | 5 | 5 | 100% |
| 2007 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| 2005 | 5 | 4 | 80% |
2025 split: residents 2 from 2 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 | 60,055 ac | 98% |
| Private | 184 ac | <1% |
| BLM | 0 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 0 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 0 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 0 ac | <1% |
| State land | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 0 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 0 ac | <1% |
| State trust land | 0 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 0 ac | <1% |
| Private or other non-public land | 1,229 ac | 2% |
Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Mountain Goat Hunting District….
▸ Sources 9
- Montana FWP 2021 Mountain Goat Drawing Statistics Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 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 2005-2025 FWP Harvest Estimates export harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Mountain Goat Hunting Districts boundary, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026-2027 Mountain Goat Hunting District… land ownership, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Moose, Sheep, Goat Hunting Regulations area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2021 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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