Unit A516 (East Wheatland-Willow Creek)
Montana Hunting Guide — Antelope
Unit A516 lies in Fergus, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Petroleum and Wheatland 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 A516
Unit A516 lies in Fergus, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Petroleum and Wheatland 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.
Where to Find Pronghorn in Unit A516
What Montana FWP publishes for unit A516 is a boundary, not a pronghorn map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Fergus, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Petroleum and Wheatland counties.
The lines of the unit: Meadow Creek, Snowy Mountain Divide and Red Hill
Montana FWP draws unit A516 in Fergus, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Petroleum and Wheatland counties with a boundary that runs on US Highway 191, US Highway 87 and US Highway 12, and on Meadow Creek, Snowy Mountain Divide, Red Hill and Flatwillow Creek, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. 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: Old Baldy, Knife Blade Ridge and Tepee Point
Named high points inside the unit include Old Baldy at 8,650 feet, Knife Blade Ridge at 8,584 feet, Tepee Point at 8,359 feet, Lost Peak at 8,195 feet and Little Snowy Mountains at 6,242 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: Browns Gulch, Wrzesinski Coulee and Tie Camp Coulee
Below them sit Browns Gulch at 5,649 feet, Wrzesinski Coulee at 5,534 feet, Tie Camp Coulee at 5,457 feet, Castle Rocks at 5,447 feet and Porcupine Gulch at 5,444 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past on the way to somewhere steeper. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.
Unit A516 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Old Baldy (8,650 ft), Lost Peak (8,195 ft), Little Snowy Mountains (6,242 ft)
Holding ground: Green Canyon (5,764 ft), Daley Gap (4,374 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 A516
Antelope Success Rates
Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no pronghorn row for unit A516 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) | 625 | 1,356 | 46.1% | — |
| Rifle — General either sex (nonresident) | 64 | 186 | 34.4% | — |
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 EngineMontana FWP's draw recap has no pronghorn record we can tie to unit A516. 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
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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