Wyoming Antelope (Pronghorn) 24-2 — Hunt Area 24, Type 2

Any antelope valid on private land · Thunder Basin

What you may take
Any antelope valid on private land
Weapon
Any legal weapon
Also open Aug 15 – Sep 30, 2026 as an archery-only season, which needs a $72 archery license on top.
Where
Hunt Area 24 — Thunder Basin
18% public of 544,962 acres
Seasons (2026)
Archery Aug 15 – Sep 30, 2026 · Oct 1–20, 2026
Nonresident tags (2026)
287
for 163 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2025)
80%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 163 of 287 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2026. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 287 tags, 163 first-choice applicants, drew out at 0 points. Source: 2026 Demand Report · p. 6.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 100% 118 plus 10 party applications averaging just under 1 points, 10 drawn 118
1 100% 16 plus 5 party applications averaging just under 2 points, 5 drawn 16
2 100% 0 plus 7 party applications averaging just under 3 points, 7 drawn 0
3 100% 3 3
4 100% 4 4
5–10 100% same chance at every one of these levels

Points pass + random pass, from published pools. A dash means Wyoming Game and Fish Department did not publish a count for that level — it prints exact counts around the cut and folds the rest into a band. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$341
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$15
Total if drawn
$362.50
Refunded if unsuccessful
$326

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $362.50 (enough points to draw) .

Nonresident big game application fee (per species applied for) · paid at application $15 source
Conservation stamp (annual; required with any hunting license) · paid if drawn $21.50 source
Nonresident antelope license (regular) · paid at application, refundable $326 source
Nonresident antelope preference point · only for a point bought without applying — an unsuccessful applicant gets the point free $31 source

Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $31 (Jul 1 – Nov 2, expected) and keeps you moving toward the 0-point cut.

Next application window: opens Jan 2, closes Jun 1, 2027 (expected) · results ~June 18. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Drew out at 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 points (2022–2026): no creep — drew at 0 points each year. Projecting that pace forward:

Your points nowYears until a sure thing
0now

A projection of the last five draws' median creep (capped at 2 points/yr), not a forecast. Random-pass odds still apply every year you're below the cut.

Seasons (2026)

Special archery: Aug 15 – Sep 30, 2026 Special archery season (archery license required): Any antelope valid on private land p. 2
Split 1: Oct 1–20, 2026 Any antelope valid on private land p. 2

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Hunt Area 24, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 612 hunters and 490 pronghorn taken in 2025 — 80% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 24 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Type 2 385 310 81% 2.9

Wyoming's figures are estimates from a voluntary post-season survey of license holders, extrapolated to every license issued — not a count of animals checked in. Source: Antelope 2025 Harvest Report Antelope 2024 Harvest Report

As a lower choice

2nd choice
63%

Tags left after higher choices ÷ applicants at this choice — 95.0 tags left after higher choices. Points do not help a lower choice.

3rd choice
0%

Tags left after higher choices ÷ applicants at this choice — 0.0 tags left after higher choices. Points do not help a lower choice.

Year by year

The regular draw for nonresidents, one row per year. Wyoming runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2026 287 163 0.6 0 95 tagsfrom 167 applications 2026 Demand Report · p. 6
2025 285 177 0.6 0 95 tagsfrom 158 applications 2025 Demand Report · p. 6
2024 246 205 0.8 0 81 tagsfrom 105 applications 2024 Demand Report · p. 6
2023 171 138 0.8 0 57 tagsfrom 89 applications 2023 Demand Report · p. 7
2022 182 123 0.7 0 60 tagsfrom 84 applications 2022 Demand Report · p. 6
2021 300 113 0.4 0 99 tagsfrom 113 applications 2021 Demand Report · p. 6

Tags left over after the main draws: 2026: 80 tags.

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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.

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