Unit A80 (Badger Basin)
Wyoming Hunting Guide — Pronghorn
Antelope Hunt Area 80, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Badger Basin, covers about 1,384 square miles in Park and Big Horn counties. It belongs to WGFD's Badger Basin antelope herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put pronghorn success here at 100%, with 188 hunters taking 188 pronghorn at about 4.3 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit A80
Antelope Hunt Area 80, which Wyoming Game and Fish names Badger Basin, covers about 1,384 square miles in Park and Big Horn counties. It belongs to WGFD's Badger Basin antelope herd unit. WGFD's 2025 harvest survey put pronghorn success here at 100%, with 188 hunters taking 188 pronghorn at about 4.3 days of hunting per animal. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Pronghorn in Antelope Hunt Area 80
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission names antelope hunt area 80 "Badger Basin". It runs to about 1,384 square miles, in Park (84%) and Big Horn (16%) counties. WGFD reports these pronghorn as the Badger Basin herd unit, and no other hunt area shares it. WGFD prints the line and counts the harvest. It doesn't say where inside the line the pronghorn live, so that part is our read of the ground, labelled as such.
The line: Bighorn River, Shoshone River and North Fork
WGFD's 2026 Chapter 5 walks the line around antelope hunt area 80 corner by corner. It starts where the Bighorn River crosses the Wyoming-Montana state line. On the way round it follows Wyoming Highway 296 and U.S. Highway 212, and Bighorn River, Shoshone River and North Fork. Read it as the legal edge of your license rather than as a hint about animals. 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 80s
WGFD numbers each species' hunt areas on its own grid, so the number 80 also belongs to its elk and deer hunt areas 80. 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: Yellowtail and Yellowtail
WGFD administers the Yellowtail Wildlife Habitat Management Area (19,203 acres) inside or across the line. Its Access Yes program enrolls a Hunter Management Area here that list antelope among their species — Yellowtail (19,487 acres). WGFD also lists 2 Walk-In Areas covering about 7,877 acres open for antelope, among them Park 4 and Big Horn 2. 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: Tibbs Butte, Tolman Mountain and Sawtooth Mountain
Named high points inside antelope hunt area 80 include Tibbs Butte at 10,653 feet, Tolman Mountain at 10,423 feet, Sawtooth Mountain at 10,176 feet, Bird Mountain at 9,932 feet and Upper Dillworth Bench at 9,027 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Pronghorn stay on the open rolling ground and leave the timber alone.
Holding ground: The Box, Oxyoke Canyon and Rattlesnake Canyon
Below them sit The Box at 5,824 feet, Oxyoke Canyon at 5,658 feet, Rattlesnake Canyon at 5,420 feet, Two Dot Flats at 5,131 feet and Eaglenest Basin at 5,029 feet. That is the low ground — where animals drop when they are pushed or when the weather turns.
Water: Sykes Spring, De Maris Springs and Blue Springs
Named water inside the line includes Sykes Spring, De Maris Springs, Blue Springs, Bridal Veil Falls, Needle Hot Springs and Britton Spring. Nothing in the data says which of it runs in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Unit A80 terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Tibbs Butte (10,653 ft), Tolman Mountain (10,423 ft), Sawtooth Mountain (10,176 ft), Bird Mountain (9,932 ft)
Holding ground: Beartooth Pass (10,948 ft), Sawtooth Meadows (9,464 ft), Deep Lake Slide Area (8,053 ft), Yellowtail Hunter Management Area, Walk-In Area Park 4
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 80
Pronghorn Success Rates
Wyoming Game and Fish's 2025 harvest report estimates 100% pronghorn success in antelope hunt area 80: 188 animals taken by 188 active hunters over 807 days of hunting, or 4.3 days per animal. By residency, residents 102.1% (145 taken by 142) and nonresidents 93.5% (43 taken by 46).
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) | 56 | 401 | 14.0% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 1 either sex (nonresident) | 2 | 102 | 2.0% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 2 either sex (resident) | 20 | 37 | 54.1% | — |
| Rifle — General Type 2 either sex (nonresident) | 1 | 10 | 10.0% | — |
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.
Open in Draw Odds EngineWyoming Game and Fish's 2026 demand report for pronghorn in antelope hunt area 80, residents and nonresidents kept apart because they draw from different license pools:
- Type 1 (any antelope), residents: 401 first-choice applicants for 56 licenses, 14% drawn
- Type 1 (any antelope), nonresidents: 102 first-choice applicants for 2 licenses, 2% drawn
- Type 2 (any antelope), residents: 37 first-choice applicants for 20 licenses, 54.1% drawn
- Type 2 (any antelope), nonresidents: 10 first-choice applicants for 1 license, 10% 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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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 80, 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 80, 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