Montana Mountain Lion — Hunting District 120

Montana Hunting District 120 covers 315,747 acres and lies 18 miles south-west of Kalispell and 28 miles north-west of Polson. 27% of it is public land, mostly national forest (19%) and state trust land (6%). In 2025, hunters took 4 mountain lion here.

Public land:27% Size:315,747 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every mountain lion license type on offer in Hunting District 120, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level

120-00 Limited Mountain Lion License 120-00 0 tags · 0 applicants

— Not open to nonresidents

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	Points needed	Tags / applicants	Season
120-00 ↗ Limited Mountain Lion License 120-00	Not open to nonresidents	—	0 / 0	Dec 1 – Apr 14, 2026

What these columns mean

Your odds: the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge: plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Points needed: the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

2 hunts not offered in 2025 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License	Up front	Gone if you miss	If you draw
Per application	$65	$65	$65

Application window: opens Jun 30, closes Jul 22, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Hunting District 120

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2025 draw.

120-01 — Limited Mountain Lion License 120-01 Standard 120-02 — Limited Mountain Lion License 120-02 Standard

The country

Hunting District 120 within Montana

Hunting District 120 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 226,895 ac · 72%
National Forest 60,528 ac · 19%
State trust land 19,986 ac · 6%
National Wildlife Refuge 2,810 ac · 1%
County or city land 473 ac · 0%
State land 410 ac · 0%
BLM 0 ac · 0%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
Tribal 0 ac · 0%
Other public 0 ac · 0%
Private or other non-public land 4,641 ac · 1%

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.