Units / Montana / Moose district 496
Moose hunt area — its own geography, not the district with the same number. Public land, access, and moose harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public hunting land
23%
854,129 ac of 3,650,666 ac
Landlocked public
29,266 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
17%
of public · 147,898 ac
Walk-in access
177,759 ac
private land opened to hunting
Moose · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters
100% success
4 taken by 4 hunters · 81 days afield
4 bulls (bulls only) · 0 calves
Res 100% success
Moose hunter success · 2005–2025 · 50% → 100%
Plan it
Montana moose draw odds — 1 hunt here →
4 tags drawn on this moose district last season.
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the district’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing
North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.
USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 400 m grid. See the code →
Nearby moose moose districts
Boundaries from the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks moose hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.