Wyoming Antelope (Pronghorn) · Hunt Area 9 Lance Creek

Wyoming Hunt Area 9 covers 654,669 acres and lies 9 miles north of Lusk and 46 miles north of Guernsey. 15% of it is public land, mostly state land (14%) and BLM (1%). In 2025, 280 people hunted pronghorn here and took 234, a 84% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 9-1, put up 29 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 320 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 5 points.

NR Tags, 2026
118

5 licenses

Applicants
448

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
84%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
15%

14% State

Size
1,023 mi²

654,669 acres

Lusk Douglas 9
84%hunter success 2025 · 280 hunters, 234 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 9

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
9-1 Regular 2% 5 ▲4
Special 26% 1 ▲1
Landowner 100% 0
9-7 Reduced price · private 10% —
Landowner reduced price · private 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. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 9-6.

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
2025 280 234 84%
2024 269 230 86%
2023 212 188 89%
2022 275 246 90%
2021 334 304 91%
2025 by LicenseHuntersPronghornSuccess
Type 1 278 224 81%
Type 7 17 10 59%

2025 split: archery 6 (3%), firearm 228 (97%) · residents 172 from 214 hunters, nonresidents 62 from 66 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 555,546 ac 85%
State land 89,054 ac 14%
BLM 9,322 ac 1%
County or city land 746 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