Montana Mountain Goat

Unit G331 (Snowcrest Mountains)

Montana Hunting Guide — Mountain Goat

Unit G331 lies in Beaverhead and Madison counties. Montana FWP publishes no per-unit mountain goat success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Mountain Goat Hunting in Unit G331

Where to Find Mountain Goat in Unit G331

Montana FWP's material on unit G331 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its mountain goat live. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Beaverhead and Madison counties.

The lines of the unit: Ruby River and Long Creek

Montana FWP draws unit G331 in Beaverhead and Madison counties with a boundary that runs on Highway 287 and Route 41, and on Ruby River and Long 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: Sunset Peak, Hogback Mountain and Olson Peak

Named high points inside the unit include Sunset Peak at 10,565 feet, Hogback Mountain at 10,561 feet, Olson Peak at 10,455 feet, Sliderock Mountain at 10,429 feet and Antone Peak at 10,213 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Goats live above the trees on cliff and talus and come down only when weather makes them.

Holding ground: Pole Creek Basin, Red Canyon and Wood Canyon

Below them sit Pole Creek Basin at 7,521 feet, Red Canyon at 6,895 feet, Wood Canyon at 6,688 feet, Antelope Basin at 6,534 feet and Sweetwater Basin at 6,489 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: Kelly Spring, Mud Spring and Warm Springs

Named sources include Kelly Spring, Mud Spring, Warm Springs, Caldwell Springs, 08S05W01AACC01 Spring and Antelope Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Unit G331 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Sunset Peak (10,565 ft), Hogback Mountain (10,561 ft), Sliderock Mountain (10,429 ft), Antone Peak (10,213 ft)

Holding ground: Honeymoon Park (9,631 ft), Peterson Basin (8,684 ft), Antone Pass (8,589 ft), Kelly Spring, Mud Spring

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 Mountain Goat in Unit G331

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure for unit G331 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: glass from across the basin, judge the climb honestly, and decide whether a hit animal could be recovered.

Glassing from Snowcrest Range, Mount Carey and Snowcrest Mountain

Take a position on one of Snowcrest Range (10,056 ft), Mount Carey (9,571 ft), Snowcrest Mountain (9,008 ft) and Benson Peak (8,466 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, early hunts find goats higher and later hunts find them pushed down by snow.

The way in: Highway 287 and Route 41

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones Montana FWP draws the boundary with: Highway 287 and Route 41. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Pick the edge nearest the country you mean to hunt and work in from it on foot, rather than driving the perimeter looking for a way through.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Sunset Peak, Hogback Mountain, Sliderock Mountain and Antone Peak as places to see from, and Honeymoon Park, Peterson Basin, Antone Pass and Kelly Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it. We have no mountain goat success figure for this unit that survives checking against Montana FWP's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

Montana rules that decide your day

Summarised from FWP regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Montana has no general off-road retrieval allowance; travel stays on open routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag and attach it to the carcass before moving the animal.

Leaving meat

Wasting game meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 150 yards of an occupied dwelling without permission, and no shooting from or across a public road.

Mountain Goat: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mountain Goat Success Rates

Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mountain goat row for unit G331 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.

Mountain Goat Draw Odds

Draw odds data not available for this specific unit/species combination in our database.

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Montana FWP's draw recap has no mountain goat record we can tie to unit G331. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit G331?

Unit G331 lies in Beaverhead and Madison counties. Montana FWP draws unit G331 with a boundary that runs on Highway 287 and Route 41, and on Ruby River and Long Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the mountain goat success rate in unit G331?

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure we can tie to unit G331 on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check Montana FWP's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

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 — goat hunting districts (pp. 43-45) — 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