Montana Mountain Goat

Unit G453 (South Big Belt Mountains)

Montana Hunting Guide — Mountain Goat

Unit G453 lies in Meagher and Broadwater 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 G453

Where to Find Mountain Goat in Unit G453

Montana FWP draws an exact line around unit G453 and says nothing about where the mountain goat stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Meagher and Broadwater counties.

The lines of the unit: White Sulphur Springs and Confederate Gulch-Benton Gulch

Montana FWP draws unit G453 in Meagher and Broadwater counties with a boundary that runs on Highway 12, and on White Sulphur Springs and Confederate Gulch-Benton Gulch, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Mount Edith, Mount Baldy and Boulder Baldy

Named high points inside the unit include Mount Edith at 9,493 feet, Mount Baldy at 9,441 feet, Boulder Baldy at 8,936 feet, Boulder Mountain at 8,812 feet and Windy Ridge at 7,851 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: Kentucky Gulch, Cement Gulch and Democrat Gulch

Below them sit Kentucky Gulch at 5,249 feet, Cement Gulch at 5,214 feet, Democrat Gulch at 5,147 feet, Bridge Gulch at 5,088 feet and Corral Gulch at 5,080 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Water: Roberts Spring

Named sources include Roberts Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Unit G453 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Mount Edith (9,493 ft), Mount Baldy (9,441 ft), Boulder Baldy (8,936 ft), The Needles (7,551 ft)

Holding ground: Duck Creek Pass (7,475 ft), Holloway Gulch (5,579 ft), Debauch Gulch (5,412 ft), Roberts 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 G453

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure for unit G453 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 Black Butte, Pilot Knob and Dutchie Butte

Take a position on one of Black Butte (5,732 ft), Pilot Knob (5,490 ft), Dutchie Butte (5,226 ft) and Hooligans Hill (4,914 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, early hunts find goats higher and later hunts find them pushed down by snow.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Mount Edith, Mount Baldy, Boulder Baldy and The Needles as places to see from, and Duck Creek Pass, Holloway Gulch, Debauch Gulch and Roberts Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

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 G453 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

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit G453?

Unit G453 lies in Meagher and Broadwater counties. Montana FWP draws unit G453 with a boundary that runs on Highway 12, and on White Sulphur Springs and Confederate Gulch-Benton Gulch, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the mountain goat success rate in unit G453?

Montana FWP publishes no mountain goat success figure we can tie to unit G453 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