Montana Mountain Lion · Hunting District 309
Montana Hunting District 309 covers 110,560 acres and lies 3 miles west of Bozeman and 15 miles south-east of Manhattan. 8% of it is public land, mostly county or city land (4%) and state trust land (2%).
0 licenses · NR capped at 10%
first choice, NR
not published
4% Other public
110,560 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Licenses
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered a mountain lion license in Hunting District 309 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it; the Montana mountain lion hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
Harvest
| Year | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 0 |
| 2024 (summed) | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 |
2025 split: nonresidents 0, residents 0
What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes no whole-hunting district line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published resident and nonresident rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Hunter counts not published for 2025. 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 2025 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest; Montana FWP 2024 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest; Montana FWP 2023 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest.
The Ground
| Private | 101,583 ac | 92% |
| County or city land | 4,533 ac | 4% |
| State trust land | 2,266 ac | 2% |
| State land | 2,100 ac | 2% |
| BLM | 0 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 0 ac | <1% |
| Department of Defense | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Forest | 0 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 0 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 0 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 0 ac | <1% |
Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District….
▸ Sources 11
- Montana FWP 2025 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2024 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2023 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2022 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2018 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2017 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2016 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2015 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2014 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026 Mountain Lion Management Units boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
- Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
About These Numbers
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 lion hunts