Unit A455 (Ming Bar)

Montana Hunting Guide — Antelope

Unit A455 lies in Lewis and Clark County. 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 A455

Unit A455 lies in Lewis and Clark County. 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.

Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit A455

Montana FWP's material on unit A455 stops at the boundary — there is no agency account of where its pronghorn live. 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 Lewis and Clark County.

The lines of the unit: Missouri River, Holter Lake and Willow Creek

Montana FWP draws unit A455 in Lewis and Clark County with a boundary that runs on Missouri River, Holter Lake and Willow Creek, 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: Timber Hill, Mount Rowe and The Twin Sisters

Named high points inside the unit include Timber Hill at 5,103 feet, Mount Rowe at 4,995 feet, The Twin Sisters at 4,220 feet and The Painted Rock at 4,203 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: Acres Gulch, Bray Gulch and Candle Gulch

Below them sit Acres Gulch at 3,630 feet, Bray Gulch at 3,493 feet, Candle Gulch at 4,801 feet, Whitetail Prairie at 4,716 feet and Browns Flat at 4,281 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.

Unit A455 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Timber Hill (5,103 ft)

Holding ground: Candle Gulch (4,801 ft), The Devils Kitchen (4,038 ft), Oxbow Bend (3,842 ft)

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 A455

Montana FWP publishes no pronghorn success figure for unit A455 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 Timber Hill, Mount Rowe and The Twin Sisters

Take a position on one of Timber Hill (5,103 ft), Mount Rowe (4,995 ft), The Twin Sisters (4,220 ft) and The Painted Rock (4,203 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. 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.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Timber Hill as places to see from, and Candle Gulch, The Devils Kitchen and Oxbow Bend as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

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 A455 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.

Antelope Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Rifle — General either sex (resident)	2	55	3.6%	—

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.

Open in Draw Odds Engine

Montana FWP's draw recap has no pronghorn record we can tie to unit A455. That usually means the licence is sold over the counter, is issued under a hunt code covering several units, or was not offered in the years we hold. Rather than estimate a point requirement, we leave it blank — check Montana FWP's own draw recap for the hunt code you mean to apply for.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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Terrain Difficulty

Moderate. Sage-prairie walking plus rimrock glassing routes; fence crossings and long loops are common.

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Hunting Pressure

Moderate. Permit caps limit buck hunters specifically, but prairie recreation shares the ground.

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Weather

September heat can exceed 90°F; October brings rapid cold fronts. Water discipline matters both seasons.

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Permit Notes

HD 455-20 is a special-draw permit hunt. Apply by the FWP spring deadline and confirm current restrictions.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit A455?

Unit A455 lies in Lewis and Clark County. Montana FWP draws unit A455 with a boundary that runs on Missouri River, Holter Lake and Willow Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the pronghorn success rate in unit A455?

Montana FWP publishes no pronghorn success figure we can tie to unit A455 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