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South Dakota Antelope (Pronghorn) Draw Odds

Enter your points, see your chance of drawing every pronghorn tag in South Dakota — straight from the 2026 draw results.

Next application:opens Jun 16, closes Jul 7, 2027 (expected) Cost to apply:$25 ($25 if you miss) Nonresident tags (2026):102 Applicants:1,510

* Projected from this year's calendar; the agency sets next year's exact dates.

How the South Dakota draw works (30-second version)

Preference points.

Tags go to the applicants with the most preference points, one level at a time. If the last level that draws has more applicants than tags remaining, those applicants are chosen at random. Everyone below that level is unsuccessful and earns a point.

Full mechanics, fees, and deadlines →

How much these move year to year: last year's odds missed by 6% for the typical applicant (most people sit right at the cut). Details

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • PRA-02A-42 Prairie Antelope: 02A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 29 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-11A-42 Prairie Antelope: 11A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 6 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-15A-42 Prairie Antelope: 15A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 57 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-15B-42 Prairie Antelope: 15B42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 5 tags · 135 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-20A-42 Prairie Antelope: 20A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 2 tags · 23 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-21A-42 Prairie Antelope: 21A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 3 tags · 29 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-24A-42 Prairie Antelope: 24A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 7 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-27A-42 Prairie Antelope: 27A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 7 tags · 301 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-31A-42 Prairie Antelope: 31A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 10 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-35A-42 Prairie Antelope: 35A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 3 tags · 245 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-35B-42 Prairie Antelope: 35B42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 3 tags · 190 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-36A-42 Prairie Antelope: 36A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 2 tags · 0 applicants
    100% No first-choice applicants
  • PRA-38A-42 Prairie Antelope: 38A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 5 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-39A-42 Prairie Antelope: 39A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 19 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-41A-42 Prairie Antelope: 41A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 6 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-45A-42 Prairie Antelope: 45A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 1 applicants
    100% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-45B-42 Prairie Antelope: 45B42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 21 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-49A-42 Prairie Antelope: 49A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 3 tags · 51 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-49B-42 Prairie Antelope: 49B42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 13 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-50A-42 Prairie Antelope: 50A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 1 applicants
    0% Undersubscribed 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-53A-42 Prairie Antelope: 53A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 2 tags · 111 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-53B-42 Prairie Antelope: 53B42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 4 tags · 64 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-58A-42 Prairie Antelope: 58A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 9 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-59A-42 Prairie Antelope: 59A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 3 applicants
    0% Point builder
  • PRA-60A-42 Prairie Antelope: 60A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 4 applicants
    0% Point builder
  • PRA-63A-42 Prairie Antelope: 63A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 1 tags · 7 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-64A-42 Prairie Antelope: 64A42 - BUCK ANTELOPE 2 tags · 25 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • PRA-PSA Prairie Antelope: PSA - BUCK ANTELOPE--PRIVATE LAND ONLY 50 tags · 138 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
—
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
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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
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South Dakota 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
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the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
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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.
9 hunts not offered in 2026 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

Browse by hunt area

Each area has its own page: where it is on the map, how much of it is public land, what the hunters who went there killed last season, and every license type you can apply for inside it.

PRA-02A that portion of Pennington County east of the Cheyenne River 36% public CU1-CU1 Custer State Park 100% public PRA-11A Bennett and Oglala Lakota Counties 8% public PRA-15A that portion of Butte County 31% public PRA-15B that portion of Butte County not included in Unit PRA-15A and Lawrence County no 9% public PRA-20A Corson County 4% public PRA-21A that portion of Custer County east of U.S. Highway 385 and the eastern boundarie 12% public PRA-24A Dewey County 1% public PRA-27A Fall River County and that portion of Custer County south of U.S. Highway 16 and 35% public PRA-31A Haakon County 1% public PRA-35A that portion of Harding County west of U.S. Highway 85 20% public PRA-35B that portion of Harding County east of U.S. Highway 85 22% public PRA-36A Hughes County 3% public PRA-38A Buffalo, Hand, and Hyde Counties 3% public PRA-39A Jackson County 10% public PRA-41A Jones County, excluding that portion described in PRA-45B 1% public PRA-45A Lyman County except for United States Corps of Engineers land and excluding that 0% public PRA-45B those portions of Lyman, Stanley, and Jones Counties 0% public PRA-49A that portion of Meade County north of State Highway 34 and south of U.S. Highway 3% public PRA-49B that portion of Meade County east of Interstate 90 and south of State Highway 34 5% public PRA-50A Mellette and Todd Counties 1% public PRA-53A that portion of Perkins County north of State Highway 20 18% public PRA-53B that portion of Perkins County south of State Highway 20 and that portion of Mea 5% public PRA-58A Stanley County, excluding that portion described in PRA-45B 6% public PRA-59A Sully County 5% public PRA-60A Tripp County 0% public PRA-63A Campbell, Potter, and Walworth Counties 3% public PRA-64A Ziebach County 1% public PRA-15A43 that portion of Butte County (doe/kid quota license, same boundary as PRA-15A) 31% public PRA-15B43 that portion of Butte County not included in Unit PRA-15A and Lawrence County no (doe/kid quota license, same boundary as PRA-15B) 9% public PRA-35B43 that portion of Harding County east of U.S. Highway 85 (doe/kid quota license, same boundary as PRA-35B) 22% public PRA-35A49 that portion of Harding County west of U.S. Highway 85 (doe/kid quota license, same boundary as PRA-35A) 20% public PRA-49B43 that portion of Meade County east of Interstate 90 and south of State Highway 34 (doe/kid quota license, same boundary as PRA-49B) 5% public PRA-53B43 that portion of Perkins County south of State Highway 20 and that portion of Mea (doe/kid quota license, same boundary as PRA-53B) 5% public PRA-PSA Statewide (special license, private land only) PR-PSA Statewide (special license, private land only) PR-PSAPR Statewide (special license, private land only)
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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

Not an application service

This page is informational only. Draw rules, quotas, fees, and deadlines are set by the state agency and change by commission action — confirm everything on the agency's own site before you apply, and apply through the agency, not here. We disclaim all liability for reliance on this page.