Nevada Antelope (Pronghorn) — Unit 181

Salisbury

Nevada Unit 181 covers 1,521,344 acres and lies 11 miles east of Fallon and 33 miles east of Fernley. 76% of it is public land, mostly military (30%) and BLM (26%). In 2025, 118 people hunted pronghorn here and took 106 — 90% of them killed something. The 2025 draw put up 7 nonresident tags here for 437 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2025):9 Applicants:462 Hunter success (2025):90% Public land:76% Size:1,521,344 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every pronghorn license type on offer in Unit 181, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

2 licenses on offer · 9 tags · 462 applicants in the 2025 draw

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 2251-181.182.183.184-0822 Antelope horns longer than ears | NR | Any Legal Weapon | 181 - 184 7 tags · 437 applicants
    <1% Point builder <1% as 2nd choice
  • 2261-181.182.183.184-0801 Antelope horns longer than ears | NR | Archery | 181 - 184 2 tags · 25 applicants
    <1% Point builder 4% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 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
Nevada 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 2025 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.
5 hunts not offered in 2025 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $168 $168 $468

Application window: opens Mar 23, closes May 13, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Unit 181

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2025 draw.

The country

Fallon Yerington Lovelock Winnemucca Ely
Unit 181 within Nevada
015 021 022 041 042 043 044 045 141 143 151 152 153 154 155 156 161 162 163 171 172 173 182 183 184 202 203 204 205 206 207 291 Fallon Yerington Lovelock Sparks Carson City
Unit 181 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

  • Department of Defense 453,641 ac · 30%
  • BLM 390,540 ac · 26%
  • Private 318,064 ac · 21%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 216,939 ac · 14%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 79,639 ac · 5%
  • Tribal 47,736 ac · 3%
  • Other public 11,880 ac · 1%
  • State land 2,904 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Nevada Surface Management Agency

How the hunting has gone

What Nevada Department of Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Nevada Department of Wildlife 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. Nevada Department of Wildlife reports this unit inside the group 181-184, so the figures below cover the whole group, not Unit 181 alone.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 118 106 90%
2024 118 100 85%
2023 95 77 81%
2022 99 90 91%

Boundary: NDOW Game Management Units

Harvest: 2025 Antelope Harvest by Unit Group

Harvest: 2024 Antelope Harvest by Unit Group

Harvest: 2023 Antelope Harvest by Unit Group

How we compute draw odds · All Nevada pronghorn hunts