Montana Mountain Lion · Hunting District 380

Montana Hunting District 380 covers 668,893 acres and lies 12 miles west of Townsend and 23 miles south of East Helena. 42% of it is public land, mostly national forest (24%) and BLM (14%). In 2025, hunters took 7 mountain lion here; hunter counts not published.

Tags, 2025
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1 license · NR capped at 10%

Applicants
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first choice, NR

Hunter Success
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not published

Public Land
42%

26% Forest Service

Size
1,045 mi²

668,893 acres

Townsend East Helena Three Forks Deer Lodge White Sulphur Springs 380

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

Every License in Hunting District 380

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
380-00 not open —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: Montana FWP 2025 Limited Mountain Lion Drawing…, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $92.50 ($92.50 to apply). Open Jun 30 – Jul 22, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Harvest
2025 7
2024 8
2023 5
2022 6
2021 6
2020 5
2019 6
2018 5
2017 5
2016 10
2015 8
2014 8

2025 split: nonresidents 0, residents 7

What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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 351,704 ac 53%
National Forest 162,808 ac 24%
BLM 93,645 ac 14%
State trust land 20,401 ac 3%
Bureau of Reclamation 3,812 ac <1%
County or city land 802 ac <1%
State land 668 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%
Private or other non-public land 35,049 ac 5%

Source: Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District….

▸ Sources 19
  1. Montana FWP 2025 Limited Mountain Lion Drawing… 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 2025 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  7. Montana FWP 2024 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  8. Montana FWP 2023 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  9. Montana FWP 2022 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  10. Montana FWP 2021 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  11. Montana FWP 2020 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  12. Montana FWP 2019 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  13. Montana FWP 2018 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  14. Montana FWP 2017 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  15. Montana FWP 2016 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  16. Montana FWP 2015 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  17. Montana FWP 2014 Reported Mountain Lion Harvest, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  18. Montana FWP 2026 Mountain Lion Management Units boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 2, 2026
  19. Montana FWP 2026-2027 Deer Elk Lion Hunting District… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2025 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 lion hunts