Oregon Antelope (Pronghorn) — Unit 44

Columbia Basin

Oregon Unit 44 covers 1,811,862 acres and lies 14 miles south of Hermiston and 28 miles west of Pendleton. 5% of it is public land, mostly military (4%) and BLM (1%). In 2025, 31 people hunted pronghorn here and took 18 — 58% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):58% Public land:5% Size:1,811,862 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has not offered a pronghorn license in Unit 44 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Oregon pronghorn hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Hermiston La Grande The Dalles Baker City Prineville
Unit 44 within Oregon
40 43 45 48 53 63 Hermiston Pendleton La Grande Baker City
Unit 44 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 1,715,270 ac · 95%
  • Department of Defense 64,243 ac · 4%
  • BLM 14,692 ac · 1%
  • National Wildlife Refuge 8,927 ac · 0%
  • State land 3,758 ac · 0%
  • Bureau of Reclamation 2,600 ac · 0%
  • Other public 1,650 ac · 0%
  • Tribal 390 ac · 0%

Source: BLM Oregon/Washington Land Status Ownership (BLM_OR_Ownership MapServer)

How the hunting has gone

What Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Oregon Department of Fish and 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. Oregon requires every tag holder to report, but the numbers ODFW publishes are survey estimates expanded from the reporting rate — the agency's own tables are titled "Estimated harvest... based on Mandatory Harvest Survey Reports" — not a count of animals checked in.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 31 18 58%
2024 42 21 50%
2023 36 18 50%
2022 33 15 45%
2021 30 11 37%

Boundary: ODFW Wildlife Management Unit boundaries (Compass ArcGIS service)

Harvest: ODFW 2025 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt

Harvest: ODFW 2024 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt

Harvest: ODFW 2023 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt

How we compute draw odds · All Oregon pronghorn hunts