Wyoming Pronghorn

Unit A24 (Thunder Basin)

Wyoming Hunting Guide — Pronghorn

Antelope Hunt Area 24, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Thunder Basin, covers about 851 square miles in Campbell, Weston and Crook counties. It belongs to WGFD's Black Thunder antelope herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put pronghorn success here at 80.1%, with 612 hunters taking 490 pronghorn at about 4.2 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Where to Find Pronghorn in Antelope Hunt Area 24

The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names antelope hunt area 24 "Thunder Basin". It runs to about 851 square miles, in Campbell (90%), Weston (7%) and Crook (3%) counties. WGFD reports these pronghorn as the Black Thunder herd unit, which also takes in antelope hunt areas 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 27 and 29. What WGFD publishes for the area is its boundary and its harvest; where the pronghorn stand inside it is our reading of the ground, and the two are kept apart below.

The line: Belle Fourche River, Four Horse Creek and Raven Creek

WGFD's 2026 Chapter 5 walks the line around antelope hunt area 24 corner by corner. It starts where Interstate Highway 90 crosses the Belle Fourche River. On the way round it follows Interstate Highway 90, U.S.F.S. Road 930, Wyoming Highway 450 and Wyoming Highway 59, and Belle Fourche River, Four Horse Creek, Raven Creek and Cheyenne River. It is the description your license is good inside, so it is worth reading once in full before you go. The full text is in Section 5 of that chapter, with this year's season dates and license limitations in Section 2.

Not the same ground as the other hunt area 24s

WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 24 also belongs to its elk, deer, moose and bighorn sheep hunt areas 24. None of them shares a county with this one. A license is good only in the hunt area of its own species, so this page is about the antelope area, and the cards at the foot of the page link the others.

Ground WGFD opens: Campbell 6 and Campbell 3 - ARCHERY ONLY

WGFD also lists 2 Walk-In Areas covering about 3,610 acres open for antelope, among them Campbell 6 and Campbell 3 - ARCHERY ONLY. WGFD's 2026 regulations open Access Yes land only for the species and dates listed for each area, with each area's own rules on WGFD's site and no motorized travel unless WGFD says otherwise.

High ground inside the line: Four Points, H A Divide and Rocky Hill

Named high points inside antelope hunt area 24 include Four Points at 5,137 feet, H A Divide at 5,118 feet, Rocky Hill at 5,079 feet, Two Top at 5,019 feet and The Jumpoff at 4,993 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: Shipley Draw, Coal Mine Draw and Coyote Draw

Below them sit Shipley Draw at 4,677 feet, Coal Mine Draw at 4,600 feet, Coyote Draw at 4,516 feet, Clabaugh Draw at 4,509 feet and Haire Draw at 4,494 feet. These are the folds worth watching, and the ones other hunters walk past.

Reading the land status

Named ground inside antelope hunt area 24 runs from 4,228 feet to 5,137 feet. Those are the heights of the features GNIS names, which bound the range from inside rather than measure it.

Unit A24 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: H A Divide (5,118 ft), Rocky Hill (5,079 ft), Yellow Hammer Buttes (4,813 ft), Chalk Hills (4,796 ft)

Holding ground: Williams Draw (4,688 ft), Dugout Draw (4,406 ft), Cabin Canyon (4,388 ft), Walk-In Area Campbell 3 - ARCHERY ONLY, Walk-In Area Campbell 6

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 Antelope Hunt Area 24

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest survey estimates 612 hunters took 490 pronghorn in antelope hunt area 24 — 80.1% success, at about 4.2 days of hunting for every animal taken. Residents ran 75.4% and nonresidents 82.3% 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 24 for 2025

WGFD's 2025 survey breaks the pronghorn harvest in antelope hunt area 24 down by license type.

Type 1 — 207 licenses in use, 71% success, 6.3 days per animal
Type 2 — 385 licenses in use, 80.5% success, 2.9 days per animal
Type 6 — 22 licenses in use, 72.7% success, 12.4 days per animal
Type 7 — 21 licenses in use, 81% success, 3.5 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 T A Buttes, Rocky Butte and Yellow Hammer Buttes

Take a position on one of T A Buttes (4,871 ft), Rocky Butte (4,863 ft), Yellow Hammer Buttes (4,813 ft) and Chalk Hills (4,796 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Early-season bucks hold does and can be decoyed where the law allows it.

Hunting the Access Yes ground

Hunter Management Areas and Walk-In Areas are private land opened through WGFD's Access Yes program, and the 2026 regulations open each one only for the species and dates listed for it. Read the area's page on WGFD's site before you go — its rules, its dates and whether it needs anything more than your license. Anything else on that land, or any species not listed, needs the landowner's permission, so treat the Access Yes line as the edge of what you were given.

Reading the Black Thunder herd, not just the area

WGFD's harvest report also tabulates pronghorn by herd unit, and antelope hunt area 24 shares the Black Thunder herd unit with antelope hunt areas 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and 2 more. 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: Interstate Highway 90, U.S.F.S. Road 930 and Wyoming Highway 450

We hold no road inventory for antelope hunt area 24, so the only routes we can name are the ones WGFD draws its boundary with: Interstate Highway 90, U.S.F.S. Road 930, Wyoming Highway 450 and Wyoming Highway 59. Those are its edges, not its interior — where you leave the pavement, not what the inside is like. Park on the boundary and walk; country you can only reach from its rim rewards whoever leaves the truck there.

Wyoming rules that decide your day

Summarised from WGFD 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

Wyoming has no general off-road retrieval allowance on federal ground. Travel stays on designated routes.

Tagging

Attach the carcass coupon to the animal before it is moved, and keep evidence of sex attached.

Leaving meat

Wanton waste of edible meat is a serious offence in Wyoming.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting from or across a public road, and no shooting toward an occupied dwelling.

Pronghorn: 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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Pronghorn Success Rates

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 80.1% pronghorn success in antelope hunt area 24: 490 animals taken by 612 active hunters over 2,072 days of hunting, or 4.2 days per animal. By residency, residents 75.4% (147 taken by 195) and nonresidents 82.3% (343 taken by 417).

These are WGFD's own estimates from its hunter survey, for this hunt area and season only — not a statewide average. One season isn't a trend, so check the current report before you read one into it.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (resident)	199	127	100.0%	—
Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (nonresident)	15	185	8.1%	—
Rifle — General Type 2 either sex (resident)	340	26	100.0%	—
Rifle — General Type 2 either sex (nonresident)	95	0	100.0%	—

Data from 2026 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.

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Wyoming Game and Fish's 2026 demand report for pronghorn in antelope hunt area 24, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:

Type 1 (any antelope), nonresidents: 185 first-choice applicants for 15 licenses, 8.1% drawn
Type 1 (any antelope), residents: 127 first-choice applicants for 199 licenses, 100% drawn
Type 2 (any antelope), residents: 26 first-choice applicants for 340 licenses, 100% drawn

Wyoming residents draw pronghorn licenses without preference points; nonresidents draw part of their quota on points, highest balance first (Chapter 44, Section 19), and the nonresident figures above are from WGFD's random draw. WGFD publishes no preference-point level at which a hunt draws, so none is given here. Every figure was checked against WGFD's demand-report PDFs on 2026-08-10.

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Planning Notes

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Water

No named water source falls inside the hunt area in our water layer, so plan on carrying water or finding it on a scouting trip.

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Road Conditions

WGFD's boundary for the hunt area follows Interstate Highway 90, U.S.F.S. Road 930, Wyoming Highway 450 and Wyoming Highway 59. That is the edge, not a promise of access inside — check a current motor-vehicle-use map before you drive in.

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Terrain Difficulty

Named features inside the hunt area run from 4,228 to 5,137 ft. Named heights only — the ground between and below them can run lower.

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Hunting Pressure

WGFD's 2025 survey counted about 612 pronghorn hunters spending 2,072 days here.

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Permit Notes

Season dates and license limitations: WGFD 2026 Chapter 5, Section 2.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Wyoming antelope hunt area 24?

Antelope Hunt Area 24 (Thunder Basin) covers about 851 square miles in Campbell, Weston and Crook counties. WGFD's 2026 Chapter 5 walks the line around antelope hunt area 24 corner by corner. It starts where Interstate Highway 90 crosses the Belle Fourche River. On the way round it follows Interstate Highway 90, U.S.F.S. Road 930, Wyoming Highway 450 and Wyoming Highway 59, and Belle Fourche River, Four Horse Creek, Raven Creek and Cheyenne River.

What is the pronghorn success rate in antelope hunt area 24?

Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 80.1% pronghorn success in antelope hunt area 24, with 612 hunters taking 490 pronghorn at about 4.2 days of hunting per animal. That is WGFD's figure for this hunt area, not a statewide average.

Is antelope hunt area 24 the same ground as elk hunt area 24?

No. WGFD numbers hunt areas separately for each species, so elk hunt area 24 is a different piece of ground with its own boundary and its own page. A license is valid only in the hunt area of its own species.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-25.

Chapter 5 — Antelope Hunting Seasons (2026) — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Name and legal boundary of antelope hunt area 24, Season dates, license types and limitations by hunt area · accessed 2026-10-25
Antelope 2025 Harvest Report — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: Hunters, harvest, percent success and days per animal for pronghorn in antelope hunt area 24, The same by license type and residency · accessed 2026-10-25
WGFD draw results and odds — demand reports 2021-2026 — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: First-choice applicants, licenses and percent drawn, by license type, residency and year · accessed 2026-08-10
Chapter 44 — Regulation for Issuance of Licenses, Permits, Stamps, Tags, Preference Points and Competitive Raffle Chances — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Which licenses are drawn on preference points (Section 19), When preference points are deleted · accessed 2026-10-25
2026 Antelope, Deer and Elk Hunting Regulations — Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · supports: Access Yes Walk-In and Hunter Management Area rules · accessed 2026-10-25
WGFD ArcGIS feature services — hunt areas by species, CWD sampling areas, WHMAs, Public Access Areas, Hunter Management Areas, Walk-In Hunting Areas — Wyoming Game and Fish Department · supports: Mapped outline of the hunt area, Herd unit and square miles, WHMAs, Public Access Areas, Hunter Management Areas and Walk-In Areas inside the area · accessed 2026-10-25
TIGERweb State_County — Wyoming county boundaries (used only to measure which counties a hunt area lies in) — U.S. Census Bureau · supports: Which counties the hunt area lies in, and in what share · accessed 2026-10-25

Unit A24 (Thunder Basin)

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit A24

Where to Find Pronghorn in Antelope Hunt Area 24

The line: Belle Fourche River, Four Horse Creek and Raven Creek

Not the same ground as the other hunt area 24s

Ground WGFD opens: Campbell 6 and Campbell 3 - ARCHERY ONLY

High ground inside the line: Four Points, H A Divide and Rocky Hill

Holding ground: Shipley Draw, Coal Mine Draw and Coyote Draw

Reading the land status

Unit A24 terrain and land status

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt Pronghorn in Antelope Hunt Area 24

Pronghorn Success Rates

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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