Montana Mountain Goat · Hunting District 521 Two Sisters

Montana Hunting District 521 covers 93,706 acres and lies 33 miles south-east of Livingston and 42 miles west of Red Lodge. 100% of it is public land, mostly national forest (100%). In 2025, 3 people hunted mountain goat here and took 3. Its most applied-for hunt, 521-20, put up 1 tag (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 116 nonresident first-choice applicants, 1 of whom drew.

Tags, 2026
1

1 license · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
116

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
—

not published

Public Land
100%

100% Forest Service

Size
146 mi²

93,706 acres

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

Every License in Hunting District 521

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
521-20 <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 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 3 3 100%
2024 4 4 100%
2023 4 4 100%
2022 3 3 100%
2021 4 4 100%
2020 4 3 75%

2025 split: residents 3 from 3 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 93,397 ac 100%
Private 299 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%

Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Mountain Goat Hunting District….

▸ Sources 9
  1. Montana FWP 2026 Mountain Goat 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 Mountain Goat Hunting Districts boundary, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  8. Montana FWP 2026-2027 Mountain Goat Hunting District… 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 mountain goat hunts