Montana 2023

[Karl Blanchard]

Could be this year that the odds with zero points were better than odds with 2 points !  Last year for deer/elk it was 77% with zero and 97% with 2.  (0 % with one)

Not possible. I'd guess that 1pt was better odds than 0 this year for the first time in a while in all categories.

[dvolmer]

Could be this year that the odds with zero points were better than odds with 2 points !  Last year for deer/elk it was 77% with zero and 97% with 2.  (0 % with one)

Not possible. I'd guess that 1pt was better odds than 0 this year for the first time in a while in all categories.

would that possibly mean there were less applicants totally???

[Sakko300wsm]

Could be this year that the odds with zero points were better than odds with 2 points !  Last year for deer/elk it was 77% with zero and 97% with 2.  (0 % with one)

Not possible. I'd guess that 1pt was better odds than 0 this year for the first time in a while in all categories.

1 point had the worst odds this yr

[Karl Blanchard]

Could be this year that the odds with zero points were better than odds with 2 points !  Last year for deer/elk it was 77% with zero and 97% with 2.  (0 % with one)

Not possible. I'd guess that 1pt was better odds than 0 this year for the first time in a while in all categories.

1 point had the worst odds this yr

are draw stats out already? All I can find from MT fwp is 2022 stats.

[idaho guy]

Could be this year that the odds with zero points were better than odds with 2 points !  Last year for deer/elk it was 77% with zero and 97% with 2.  (0 % with one)

Not possible. I'd guess that 1pt was better odds than 0 this year for the first time in a while in all categories.

At a minimum the odds for zero I think went down substantially. It was so well publicized and everybody and their brother seemed to do a podcast on it ha ha. I have to believe a lot of applicants without points opted not to purchase 1 going into the draw.  It will be interesting to see this years odds.

[Karl Blanchard]

Could be this year that the odds with zero points were better than odds with 2 points !  Last year for deer/elk it was 77% with zero and 97% with 2.  (0 % with one)

Not possible. I'd guess that 1pt was better odds than 0 this year for the first time in a while in all categories.

At a minimum the odds for zero I think went down substantially. It was so well publicized and everybody and their brother seemed to do a podcast on it ha ha. I have to believe a lot of applicants without points opted not to purchase 1 going into the draw.  It will be interesting to see this years odds.

agreed. I also think a lot of people don't keep tabs or even understand how these draws work and lost their points completely.

[Stein]

If 0 point odds went down that much, it means MT missed out on a bunch of revenue and I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the 25% draw to anyone that didn't draw in the 75% draw instead of only 0 points.  I never really understood that rule, seemed like what happened was pretty much guaranteed.  Depending on point creep, they might consider get rid of the 3 point cap as well.

[blackymaster20]

Im all for people who dont want to buy preference points having a chance in any draw. But if you choose to buy the point you should have better odds. Guess we will see how they go about that in the future.

[vandeman17]

Since I am sitting out Montana this year, I plan to buy a point and apply next year while buying another point.

[phildobaggins]

Odds with 0 points were like 74% on GoHunt. If you bought a point with 0 going in, you prob didn't draw because you bought the point 

[huntnphool]

 I am the only one in our group that drew, I didn’t buy a point, but others did.

[andrew_in_idaho]

Since I am sitting out Montana this year, I plan to buy a point and apply next year while buying another point.

If you applied this year and didn’t opt in to the point pool, you cannot buy your preference point during the point buying period


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[Sakko300wsm]

Odds with 0 points were like 74% on GoHunt. If you bought a point with 0 going in, you prob didn't draw because you bought the point 

That’s exactly what happened to us - we drew last year and the last few yes. Went in with zero and bought a point . And that pretty much put us into the very slim draw pool and did not draw. Which I’m fine with as I’m doing Saskatchewan this yr as well

[andrew_in_idaho]

I’m hesitant to do this, but you huntwa folks are a good bunch, so if you didn’t get drawn for Montana and you are looking for a hunt for this fall, Idaho has a returned tag sale going on Thursday morning at 10 AM mountain time. 304 elk tags, 371 regular deer and 147 whitetail only and 1 DAV deer tag.


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[phildobaggins]

I’m hesitant to do this, but you huntwa folks are a good bunch, so if you didn’t get drawn for Montana and you are looking for a hunt for this fall, Idaho has a returned tag sale going on Thursday morning at 10 AM mountain time. 304 elk tags, 371 regular deer and 147 whitetail only and 1 DAV deer tag.


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