California Antelope (Pronghorn) 760 — Zone 6

Zone 6 - Surprise Valley - General Methods - Buck · Surprise Valley

What you may take
Zone 6 - Surprise Valley - General Methods - Buck
Weapon
Rifle
Where
Zone 6 — Surprise Valley
58% public of 522,881 acres
Season (2025)
Aug 23–31, 2025
Tags (2025)
10
for 1,385 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 1
Hunter success here (2023)
73%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2025 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 8 tags, 1,385 first-choice applicants. Source: 2025 Pronghorn Tag Drawing... · p. 1.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 <1% 124
1 <1% 93
2 <1% 70
3 <1% 68
4 <1% 84
5 <1% 102
6 <1% 75
7 <1% 66
8 <1% 69
9 <1% 59
10 <1% 45
11 <1% 46
12 <1% 49
13 <1% 39
14 <1% 29
15 <1% 29
16 <1% 28
17 <1% 24
18 <1% 42
19 <1% 44
20 <1% 44
21 <1% 32
22 22% 23
23 100% 3

Points pass + random pass, from published pools. A dash means California Department of Fish and Wildlife did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2025 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$227.94
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$227.94
Total if drawn
$841.54
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2025 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $841.54 (enough points to draw) to $158,466.79 (lowest published odds).

Pronghorn Antelope Tag Drawing Application · paid at application $8.13 source
Nonresident hunting license · paid at application $219.81 source
Nonresident pronghorn tag (paid only if drawn) · paid if drawn, refundable $613.60 source

Next application window: opens Apr 15, closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected) · results ~June 15. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (0 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years with a published drew-out level.

Seasons (2025)

Split 1: Aug 23–31, 2025 p. 1

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Zone 6, California Department of Fish and Wildlife counted 15 hunters and 11 pronghorn taken in 2023 — 73% of them killed something. Full Zone 6 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2023) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Type 760 10 9 90%
Type 765 1 0 0%
Type 766 4 2 50%

Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2023 Pronghorn Harvest Statistics 2022 Pronghorn Harvest Statistics

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. California runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2025 10 1,385 138.5 2 tagsfrom 1,385 applications 2025 Pronghorn Tag Drawing... · p. 1
2024 10 1,387 138.7 2 tagsfrom 1,387 applications 2024 Pronghorn Tag Drawing... · p. 1
2023 10 1,285 128.5 2 tagsfrom 1,285 applications 2023 Pronghorn Antelope Tag... · p. 1
2022 10 1,397 139.7 2 tagsfrom 1,397 applications 2022 Pronghorn Antelope Tag... · p. 1
2020 10 1,400 140.0 2 tagsfrom 1,400 applications 2020 Pronghorn Antelope Tag... · p. 2
2019 10 1,143 114.3 2 tagsfrom 1,143 applications 2019 Big Game Drawing Bighorn... · p. 1
2018 10 1,187 118.7 2 tagsfrom 1,187 applications 2018 Elk, Pronghorn Antelope... · p. 1
2017 10 1,108 110.8 2 tagsfrom 1,108 applications 2017 Elk, Pronghorn Antelope... · p. 1

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

California reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years 760 stood for another zone or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.

Year · what it was Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2021 · archery 10 1,311 131.1 2021 Pronghorn Antelope Tag... · p. 1

Other licenses valid in Zone 6

Legal cartridges for pronghorn in California

From the California hunting laws rules on file for a rifle. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.

.22-250 Remington
.223 Remington from $0.42/rd
.243 Winchester from $1.11/rd
.25-06 Remington
6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 Grendel
.270 Winchester from $0.16/rd
7mm-08 Remington
7mm Remington Magnum
.30-06 Springfield
.300 AAC Blackout from $0.56/rd
.300 Winchester Magnum from $1.25/rd
.30-30 Winchester
.308 Winchester
.338 Winchester Magnum
.350 Legend from $1.07/rd
.35 Whelen
.360 Buckhammer
.400 Legend
.444 Marlin
.450 Bushmaster from $2.00/rd
.45-70 Government from $1.97/rd
.50 Beowulf
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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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