Data shows people from Washington love hunting in Montana

Montana attracts hunters from all around the world that apply for licenses to hunt deer and elk. Like many states, Montana limits nonresident alternatives through a lottery system, with 17,000 deer-elk mixture licenses and 4,600 deer licenses. Now there are extra nonresident hunters making use of for tags than there are licenses accessible. 

In the case of which state produces probably the most nonresident hunters, none come near the state of Washington.

The Evergreen State accounts for about 17% of all nonresident hunters awarded Montana deer and elk searching licenses during the last 4 years, in accordance with information supplied by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks by way of a public info request. That equates to just about 17,000 of the greater than 101,000 licenses distributed from 2019-2022.

The Montana State Information Bureau requested zip codes for all nonresidents who obtained deer-elk mixture, elk-combination and deer-combination licenses awarded by way of the annual lottery. 

On this week’s episode, Tom Kuglin of the Montana State Information Bureau, discusses what he discovered from trying into Montana’s nonresident searching information.

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