Oregon Antelope (Pronghorn) — Unit 48
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Oregon Unit 48 covers 922,104 acres and lies 48 miles south-west of Pendleton and 63 miles west of La Grande. 34% of it is public land, mostly national forest (27%) and BLM (7%). In 2025, 5 people hunted pronghorn here and took 1 — 20% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has not offered a pronghorn license in Unit 48 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
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 605,312 ac · 66%
- National Forest 252,875 ac · 27%
- BLM 60,065 ac · 7%
- State land 4,093 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 | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| 2024 | — | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| 2021 | — | 0 | — |
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