Wyoming Antelope (Pronghorn) · Hunt Area 10 Lake De Smet

Wyoming Hunt Area 10 covers 114,682 acres and lies 13 miles north of Buffalo and 22 miles south-east of Sheridan. 13% of it is public land, mostly state land (10%) and other public land (1%). In 2025, 226 people hunted pronghorn here and took 190, a 84% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 10-1, put up 73 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 136 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 1 point.

NR Tags, 2026
418

5 licenses

Applicants
303

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
84%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
13%

10% State

Size
179 mi²

114,682 acres

Buffalo Sheridan Ranchester 10
84%hunter success 2025 · 226 hunters, 190 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 Hunt Area 10

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
10-1 Regular 23% 1 ▲1
Special 100% 0
Landowner 100% 0
10-6 Reduced price 72% —
Landowner reduced price 100% —

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: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report and 2 more, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Regular $362.50 ($341 to apply) · Special $1,236.50 ($1,215 to apply) · Reduced price $70.50 ($49 to apply) · Landowner $36.50 ($15 to apply) · Landowner reduced price $36.50 ($15 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Pronghorn Success
2025 226 190 84%
2024 198 190 96%
2023 219 184 84%
2022 279 206 74%
2021 497 252 51%
2025 by LicenseHuntersPronghornSuccess
Type 1 128 97 76%
Type 6 127 93 73%

2025 split: archery 12 (6%), firearm 178 (94%) · residents 33 from 62 hunters, nonresidents 157 from 164 hunters

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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: WGFD 2025 Antelope Harvest Report; WGFD 2024 Antelope Harvest Report; WGFD 2023 Antelope Harvest Report.

The Ground

Private 101,970 ac 89%
State land 11,985 ac 10%
Other public 1,495 ac 1%
BLM 733 ac <1%
County or city land 137 ac <1%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 14
  1. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. WGFD 2025 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. WGFD 2024 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. WGFD 2023 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  11. WGFD 2022 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  12. WGFD 2021 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  13. WGFD 2026 Antelope Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  14. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Wyoming Game and Fish Department'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 Wyoming Game and Fish Department's results, not a forecast · Methodology · All Wyoming pronghorn hunts