Unit A10 (Lake De Smet)

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 226 hunters took 190 pronghorn in antelope hunt area 10 — 84.1% success, at about 4.3 days of hunting for every animal taken. Residents ran 53.2% and nonresidents 95.7% that year. Most hunters who held a license here filled it, so the real question is the draw, not the hunting. 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.

License types WGFD reported in antelope hunt area 10 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the pronghorn harvest in antelope hunt area 10 down by license type.

• Type 1 — 128 licenses in use, 75.8% success, 3.9 days per animal
• Type 6 — 127 licenses in use, 73.2% success, 4.7 days per animal

What each type allows — antlered, antlerless, archery-only, where it is valid — and this year's dates are set area by area in Section 2 of WGFD's 2026 Chapter 5, so read the line for the license you hold rather than assume it matches another area's.

Glassing from Snake Hill

Take a position on Snake Hill (4,714 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. Early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Reading the Leiter herd, not just the area

WGFD's harvest report also tabulates pronghorn by herd unit, and antelope hunt area 10 shares the Leiter herd unit with antelope hunt areas 15 and 16. The animals cross those lines without noticing them, so a neighbouring area in the same herd is the fairest comparison for a season here.

The way in: U.S. Highway 16, Interstate Highway 90 and U.S. Highway 14

We hold no road inventory for antelope hunt area 10, so the only routes we can name are the ones WGFD draws its boundary with: U.S. Highway 16, Interstate Highway 90 and U.S. Highway 14. Those are its edges, not its interior — where you leave the pavement, not what the inside is like. Check each on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a road in a legal description isn't a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Snake Hill as places to see from, and South Fork Harper Draw, Regina Draw and Coyote Draw as ground to work. Each pin is a named feature or a WGFD access property placed inside the area line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

179 square miles is more country than a season will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the area. WGFD's figure of 4.3 days of hunting per animal is the one to budget against. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.