Unit A215 (East Deer Lodge)

Montana Hunting Guide — Antelope

Unit A215 lies in Deer Lodge, Silver Bow and Powell counties. Montana FWP publishes no per-unit pronghorn success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Antelope Hunting in Unit A215

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit A215

Montana FWP draws an exact line around unit A215 and says nothing about where the pronghorn stand inside it. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Deer Lodge, Silver Bow and Powell counties.

The lines of the unit: Continental Divide and MacDonald Pass

Montana FWP draws unit A215 in Deer Lodge, Silver Bow and Powell counties with a boundary that runs on US Highway 12, Interstate 15 and Interstate 90, and on Continental Divide and MacDonald Pass, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Cliff Mountain, Electric Peak and Sugarloaf Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Cliff Mountain at 8,367 feet, Electric Peak at 8,334 feet, Sugarloaf Mountain at 8,244 feet, Black Mountain at 8,015 feet and Bison Mountain at 8,011 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn live in the open and trust their eyes, which is the whole problem.

Holding ground: Woodville Canyon, Horse Canyon and Alaska Gulch

Below them sit Woodville Canyon at 6,102 feet, Horse Canyon at 6,101 feet, Alaska Gulch at 6,051 feet, Connors Gulch at 6,028 feet and Cooney Gulch at 5,974 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Water: Limburger Spring

Named sources include Limburger Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Unit A215 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Cliff Mountain (8,367 ft), Electric Peak (8,334 ft), Black Mountain (8,015 ft), Bison Mountain (8,011 ft)

Holding ground: Blackfoot Meadows (6,623 ft), American Gulch (6,122 ft), Cooney Gulch (5,974 ft), Limburger Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Pronghorn in Unit A215

Montana FWP publishes no pronghorn success figure for unit A215 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: spot from a vehicle or a rise at distance, then plan a stalk that uses the only cover there is — the curve of the ground.

Glassing from Treasure Mountain, Jericho Mountain and Gospel Hill

Take a position on one of Treasure Mountain (7,384 ft), Jericho Mountain (7,374 ft), Gospel Hill (7,309 ft) and Negro Mountain (7,196 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

The way in: US Highway 12, Interstate 15 and Interstate 90

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones Montana FWP draws the boundary with: US Highway 12, Interstate 15 and Interstate 90. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Check each of them on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a line on a boundary description is not a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Cliff Mountain, Electric Peak, Black Mountain and Bison Mountain as places to see from, and Blackfoot Meadows, American Gulch, Cooney Gulch and Limburger Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it. We have no pronghorn success figure for this unit that survives checking against Montana FWP's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

Montana rules that decide your day

Summarised from FWP regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Montana has no general off-road retrieval allowance; travel stays on open routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag and attach it to the carcass before moving the animal.

Leaving meat

Wasting game meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 150 yards of an occupied dwelling without permission, and no shooting from or across a public road.

Antelope: where to put the shot

Broadside, straight up the front leg, a third of the way into the body. Pronghorn are shallow-chested and the lungs sit forward.

Shots to refuse

Range it, then range it again. Open country makes 400 yards look like 250.
Wait for the buck to stop. Nobody kills a running pronghorn cleanly on purpose.
Mind the backdrop. A miss carries a long way across a flat.

Plan the carry: roughly 30– 45 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — one large cooler with ice already in it. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Antelope Success Rates

Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no pronghorn row for unit A215 that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. Montana FWP's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit A215?

Unit A215 lies in Deer Lodge, Silver Bow and Powell counties. Montana FWP draws unit A215 with a boundary that runs on US Highway 12, Interstate 15 and Interstate 90, and on Continental Divide and MacDonald Pass, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit A215?

Montana FWP publishes no pronghorn success figure we can tie to unit A215 on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check Montana FWP's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.

Montana FWP Hunting District Legal Descriptions, 2026/2027 — antelope hunting districts (pp. 5-9) — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in · accessed 2026-10-24
FWP hunting district feature services — deer/elk, antelope, moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat districts (2026 and 2027 seasons) — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24