Nebraska Antelope (Pronghorn) — Prairie Muzzleloader

Prairie Muzzleloader

Nebraska Prairie Muzzleloader covers 48,390,425 acres and lies 21 miles west of Broken Bow and 40 miles north of Gothenburg. 1% of it is public land. In 2025, hunters took 60 pronghorn here.

Muzzleloader hunter success (2025):64% Public land:1% Size:48,390,425 acres

Your chance of drawing here

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

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Other licenses valid in Prairie Muzzleloader

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The country

Broken Bow Gothenburg Holdrege Grand Island O'Neill
Prairie Muzzleloader within Nebraska
BANNER-NORTH BANNER-SOUTH BOX-BUTTE-EAST BOX-BUTTE-WEST CHERRY CHEYENNE DISMAL EASTERN-SANDHILLS GARDEN NORTH-SIOUX Broken Bow Kearney O'Neill Alliance Blair
Prairie Muzzleloader 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 47,695,660 ac · 99%
  • National Forest 221,301 ac · 0%
  • State land 220,539 ac · 0%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 176,564 ac · 0%
  • Department of Defense 55,978 ac · 0%
  • County or city land 16,154 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 3,135 ac · 0%
  • National Park Service 1,091 ac · 0%

Source: NGPC Public Access Atlas land layers: Other Public Recreation Lands, NGPC Properties 2024-2025, Park Areas, Conservation Partner Lands

How the hunting has gone

What Nebraska Game and Parks Commission publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Nebraska Game and Parks Commission publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season.

Season Harvest
2025 60
2024 61
2023 72
2022 87
2021 89
2020 88
2019 85
2018 88
2017 80

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Muzzleloader 60 · 100%

What the agency says about the area

NGPC antelope hunting unit "Prairie Muzzleloader"; permits drawn as Prairie Muzzleloader

Source: Nebraska Big Game Guide 2026 (unit names, public-land statements)

Boundary: Antelope Hunting Units (NGPC hosted feature layer, Antelope_Hunting_Units_2022)

Harvest: 2026 Big Game Recommendation Book (2025 season harvest; comparisons 2021-2025)

Harvest: 2025 Big Game Recommendation Book (2024 season harvest; comparisons 2020-2024)

Harvest: 2024 Big Game Recommendation Book (2023 season harvest; comparisons 2019-2023)

How we compute draw odds · All Nebraska pronghorn hunts