Wyoming Antelope (Pronghorn) · Hunt Area 78 McCullough Peaks

Wyoming Hunt Area 78 covers 601,402 acres and lies 13 miles south of Byron. 79% of it is public land, mostly BLM (68%) and state land (4%). In 2025, 170 people hunted pronghorn here and took 157, a 92% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 78-1, put up 10 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 130 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 11 points.

PointsYour Wyoming preference pointsYour points

NR Tags, 2026

7 licenses

Applicants

255

first choice, NR

Hunter Success

92%

2025, all licenses

Public Land

79%

68% BLM

Size

940 mi²

601,402 acres

Byron Cowley Cody Greybull Basin 80 82 77 81 78

92%

hunter success · 2025

170 hunters, 157 pronghorn

92%hunter success 2025 · 170 hunters, 157 pronghorn

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

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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.

78-1

Regular · any pronghorn

Any antelope

Success: 95%
Season: Sep 20 – Oct 31
Tags / Apps: 10 / 130
If Drawn: $362.50

78-7

Reduced price · doe

28%

Doe or fawn valid on irrigated land

Success: 72%
Season: Aug 15 – Nov 30
Tags / Apps: 19 / 69
If Drawn: $70.50

78-8

Reduced price · doe

28%

Doe or fawn valid on irrigated land in Big Horn County

Success: 92%
Season: Oct 15 – Nov 30
Tags / Apps: 10 / 36
If Drawn: $70.50

Every License in Hunt Area 78

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

	What	Season			Tags / Apps
78-1 Regular	Any antelope	Sep 20 – Oct 31	2%	11 ▲6	10 / 130	95%
78-1 Special	Any antelope	Sep 20 – Oct 31	18%	8 ▲4	8 / 17	95%
78-1 Landowner	Any antelope	Sep 20 – Oct 31	100%	0	20 / 2	95%
78-7 Reduced price	Doe or fawn valid on irrigated land	Aug 15 – Nov 30	28%	—	19 / 69	72%
78-7 Landowner reduced price	Doe or fawn valid on irrigated land	Aug 15 – Nov 30	100%	—	20 / 1	72%
78-8 Reduced price	Doe or fawn valid on irrigated land in Big Horn County	Oct 15 – Nov 30	28%	—	10 / 36	—
78-8 Landowner reduced price	Doe or fawn valid on irrigated land in Big Horn County	Oct 15 – Nov 30	100%	—	10 / 0	—

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 78-6.

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	Days/Animal
2025	170	157	92%	4.5
2024	153	170	—	3.3
2023	227	204	90%	5.1
2022	301	237	79%	5.1
2021	200	176	88%	5

A dash under Success can also mean the agency printed a rate above 100%, which is held back for a data check.

2025 by License	Hunters	Pronghorn	Success
Type 1	95	90	95%
Type 6	60	46	77%
Type 7	29	21	72%

2025 split: archery 5 (3%), firearm 152 (97%) · residents 118 from 133 hunters, nonresidents 39 from 37 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

BLM	410,119 ac	68%
Private	127,456 ac	21%
State land	26,361 ac	4%
Bureau of Reclamation	24,922 ac	4%
Department of Defense	7,082 ac	1%
Other public	3,894 ac	<1%
County or city land	2,703 ac	<1%
National Park Service	2,403 ac	<1%

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

Next Door

▸ Sources 14

WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2025 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2024 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2023 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2022 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2021 Antelope Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
WGFD 2026 Antelope Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
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.

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