Oregon Antelope (Pronghorn) · Unit 45 Fossil

Oregon Unit 45 covers 902,240 acres and lies 59 miles north-east of Prineville and 73 miles north-east of Redmond. 15% of it is public land, mostly BLM (12%) and national forest (3%). In 2025, 18 people hunted pronghorn here and took 6, a 33% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 445B, put up 11 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 8 nonresident first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 9 points.

Tags, 2026
39

2 licenses · NR capped at 3%

Applicants
14

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
33%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
15%

12% BLM

Size
1,410 mi²

902,240 acres

Prineville The Dalles 45
33%hunter success 2025 · 18 hunters, 6 pronghorn

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

Best Bets at 0 Points

Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Unit 45

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
445A 28% 6 ▲4
445B 4% 9 ▲1

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $646 ($203 to apply). Open Dec 1, 2026 – May 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Pronghorn Success
2025 (summed) 18 6 33%
2024 (summed) 26 12 46%
2023 (summed) 23 7 30%
2022 (summed) 20 11 55%
2021 (summed) 22 11 50%
2025 by LicenseHuntersPronghornSuccess
445a fossil unit no. 1 11 4 33%
445b fossil unit no. 2 7 2 25%

What Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. 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. Source: ODFW 2025 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by…; ODFW 2024 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by…; ODFW 2023 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by….

The Ground

Private 759,173 ac 84%
BLM 104,633 ac 12%
National Forest 30,291 ac 3%
Tribal 3,835 ac <1%
State land 3,169 ac <1%
National Park Service 1,445 ac <1%
Other public 3 ac <1%

Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.

▸ Sources 10
  1. ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. ODFW 2026 OAR chapter 635 division 060 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. ODFW 2026 Recreational Fee Schedule fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. ODFW 2025 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. ODFW 2024 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. ODFW 2023 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. ODFW 2022 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. ODFW 2021 Estimated Pronghorn Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. ODFW 2026 Wildlife Management Unit boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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Prior-draw odds from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Oregon pronghorn hunts