Unit 700 (Missouri Breaks-Prairie)
Montana Hunting Guide — Elk, Mule Deer
Unit 700 lies in Garfield, Petroleum and McCone counties and covers about 2,786 square miles. Ground runs from 2,248 to 3,128 feet. Montana FWP publishes no per-unit elk success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Elk Hunting in Unit 700
Unit 700 lies in Garfield, Petroleum and McCone counties and covers about 2,786 square miles. Ground runs from 2,248 to 3,128 feet. Montana FWP publishes no per-unit elk success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Elk in Unit 700
What Montana FWP publishes for unit 700 is a boundary, not a elk map. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Garfield, Petroleum and McCone counties. It runs to about 2,786 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Musselshell River, Missouri River and Fort Peck Reservoir
Montana FWP draws unit 700 in Garfield, Petroleum and McCone counties with a boundary that runs on State Route 200, and on Musselshell River, Missouri River, Fort Peck Reservoir and Big Dry Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. What it does give you is the way in: the rivers and highways you cross, and the divides that decide which drainage you end up in.
High ground inside the line: O'Day Butte, Rattlesnake Butte and Waddington Dome
Named high points inside the unit include O'Day Butte at 3,360 feet, Rattlesnake Butte at 3,355 feet, Waddington Dome at 3,330 feet, Twin Buttes at 3,322 feet and Herman Ridge at 3,300 feet. None carries a public-land flag we trust, so settle the ownership question before you plan to stand on one. Elk on low, open country live on distance and visibility, so they see you first.
Holding ground: Chartier Coulee, Tom Walker Coulee and Sand Coulee
Below them sit Chartier Coulee at 2,930 feet, Tom Walker Coulee at 2,915 feet, Sand Coulee at 2,903 feet, Meckel Coulee at 2,880 feet and Hay Coulee at 2,875 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.
Water in this unit
The water inside the unit line comes to 230 mapped stream reaches, 82 lakes, 1,214 stock tanks and 12 springs. On ground with that many tanks, knowing which two or three hold water in your season is the most useful thing a scouting trip can tell you.
Reading the land status
Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 77%, BLM 15% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 2,248 feet to 3,128 feet, averaging 2,722 — not much relief, so the animals move laterally rather than up and down.
Unit 700 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 2,248–3,128 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 2,722 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 2,785.9 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
Who owns the ground
- BLM — 15%
- State Trust — 8%
- Private / Other — 77%
Roughly 23% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
- 1,214 tanks
- 12 springs
- 230 stream segments
- 82 lakes
Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Blue Ridge (3,239 ft), Chalk Butte (3,209 ft), Froehlich Butte (3,185 ft), Castle Butte (3,183 ft)
Holding ground: Tom Walker Coulee (2,915 ft), Eaton Coulee (2,820 ft), Hagen Gap (2,695 ft)
Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.
How to Hunt Elk in Unit 700
Elk Success Rates
Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no elk row for unit 700 that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. Montana FWP's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.
Elk Draw Odds
Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.
Search Montana Draw OddsMontana FWP's draw recap has no elk record we can tie to unit 700. That usually means the licence is sold over the counter, is issued under a hunt code covering several units, or was not offered in the years we hold. Rather than estimate a point requirement, we leave it blank — check Montana FWP's own draw recap for the hunt code you mean to apply for.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- Montana FWP Hunting District Legal Descriptions, 2026/2027 — deer-elk hunting districts (pp. 19-35) — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in · accessed 2026-10-24
- FWP hunting district feature services — deer/elk, antelope, moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat districts (2026 and 2027 seasons) — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24