Wyoming Antelope (Pronghorn) · Hunt Area 50 Elk Mountain

Wyoming Hunt Area 50 covers 759,383 acres and lies 15 miles east of Saratoga and 30 miles south of Hanna. 64% of it is public land, mostly national forest (44%) and BLM (12%). In 2025, 395 people hunted pronghorn here and took 349, a 88% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 50-1, put up 41 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 189 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 7 points.

NR Tags, 2026
234

8 licenses

Applicants
524

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
88%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
64%

44% Forest Service

Size
1,187 mi²

759,383 acres

Encampment Hanna Rawlins Laramie 50
88%hunter success 2025 · 395 hunters, 349 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 50

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
50-0 Regular 12% 5 ▲2
Special 75% 0 ▼3
Landowner 100% —
50-1 Regular 6% 7 ▲3
Special 21% 3 ▲1
Landowner 100% 0
50-6 Reduced price 12% —
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 395 349 88%
2024 398 365 92%
2023 326 309 95%
2022 425 371 87%
2021 406 382 94%
2025 by LicenseHuntersPronghornSuccess
Type 1 284 243 86%
Type 6 88 70 80%
Type 0 49 36 74%

2025 split: archery 6 (2%), firearm 343 (98%) · residents 264 from 306 hunters, nonresidents 85 from 89 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

National Forest 332,986 ac 44%
Private 277,167 ac 36%
BLM 91,058 ac 12%
State land 56,147 ac 7%
Other public 1,164 ac <1%
County or city land 737 ac <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 117 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