Montana Antelope (Pronghorn) — Hunting District 471

Montana Hunting District 471 covers 1,904,415 acres and lies 28 miles south-east of Fort Benton and 47 miles east of Great Falls. 18% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (10%) and BLM (4%). In 2025, hunters took 430 pronghorn here. The 2026 draw put up 45 tags here for 26 first-choice applicants.

Tags (2026):160 Nonresident share:capped at 10% Applicants:146 Public land:18% Size:1,904,415 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in Hunting District 471, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

4 licenses on offer · 160 tags · 146 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 471-20 Antelope License 471-20 — Either-sex 35 tags · 110 applicants · Standard
    4% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • 471-20 Antelope License 471-20 — Either-sex 35 tags · 9 applicants · Landowner
    100% Undersubscribed
  • 471-30 Antelope B License 471-30 — Doe/Fawn 45 tags · 26 applicants · Standard
    27% Long shot 0% as 2nd choice
  • 471-30 Antelope B License 471-30 — Doe/Fawn 45 tags · 1 applicants · Landowner
    100% Undersubscribed
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
Montana lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
2 hunts not offered in 2026 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Standard license $65 $65 $65
Landowner license $65 $65 $65

Application window: opens Mar 1, closes Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Hunting District 471

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

The country

Fort Benton Lewistown White Sulphur Springs Havre Roundup
Hunting District 471 within Montana
381 388 404 413 420 430 440 441 444 450 455 480 481 485 490 516 536 546 690 Fort Benton Great Falls Lewistown White Sulphur Springs Havre
Hunting District 471 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • Private 1,562,763 ac · 82%
  • State trust land 195,393 ac · 10%
  • BLM 85,127 ac · 4%
  • National Forest 42,278 ac · 2%
  • State land 6,284 ac · 0%
  • Department of Defense 3,237 ac · 0%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 1,904 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 1,333 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
  • Tribal 0 ac · 0%
  • Other public 0 ac · 0%

Source: Antelope 2026-2027 Hunting District Landcover and Land Ownership Calculations

How the hunting has gone

What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Montana's figures blend mandatory reporting with a phone and mail survey. FWP does not publish district-level hunter counts for elk or antelope, so success rates are missing for those.

Season Harvest
2025 430
2024 273
2023 315
2022 485

Residents vs nonresidents (2025)

  • Nonresident 36 taken
  • Resident 394 taken

Boundary: Antelope Hunting Districts (2026 and 2027 Seasons)

Harvest: 2025 Antelope (Pronghorn) Harvest Estimates (MyFWP Harvest Estimates Search, District=ALL)

Harvest: 2024 Antelope (Pronghorn) Harvest Estimates (MyFWP Harvest Estimates Search, District=ALL)

Harvest: 2023 Antelope (Pronghorn) Harvest Estimates (MyFWP Harvest Estimates Search, District=ALL)

How we compute draw odds · All Montana pronghorn hunts