Hunting districts / Antelope
Antelope hunting district · Region 4 (Great Falls)
District 404
Montana hunting district 404 (Antelope), FWP Region 4 (Great Falls): 4,698 sq mi in Chouteau, Pondera, Teton, Liberty counties; 8% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 3,412 ft; FWP estimated 232 antelope harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Among the most private of 61 antelope districts: 8% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land. MSL Public Lands (calculated)
- Among the most Block Management of 61 antelope districts: 43 BMAs, about 259,688 acres. FWP Block Management (calculated)
- Among the largest of 61 antelope districts: 4,698 square miles. FWP district boundary
Publicly administered land
| Montana state trust land | 7.1% | |
| Other federal | 1.3% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 1.0% | |
| Montana FWP | 0.4% | |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service | 0.3% | |
| City & county | 0.2% |
Area of Montana State Library 'Montana Public Lands' polygons (derived from the Montana Cadastral Framework, Department of Revenue ownership records) intersected with the FWP district boundary, measured in NAD83(2011) Montana State Plane (EPSG:6514). Ownership is not access: some public land is closed to hunting or has no legal access.
Antelope harvest estimates
| Year | Hunters | Days | Total Harvest | Bucks | Does | Fawns |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | n/e | n/e | 232 | 175 | 58 | 0 |
| 2024 | 430 | 1,741 | 278 | 207 | 69 | 2 |
| 2023 | n/e | n/e | 216 | 160 | 55 | 0 |
| 2022 | 448 | 2,809 | 265 | 194 | 71 | 0 |
| 2021 | n/e | n/e | 371 | 212 | 156 | 3 |
| 2020 | 584 | 2,358 | 444 | 266 | 175 | 2 |
| 2019 | n/e | n/e | 275 | 223 | 47 | 5 |
| 2018 | 486 | 1,827 | 262 | 218 | 44 | 0 |
| 2017 | n/e | n/e | 333 | 260 | 72 | 0 |
| 2016 | n/e | n/e | 274 | 204 | 68 | 2 |
| 2015 | 447 | 1,859 | 215 | 176 | 37 | 2 |
| 2014 | 346 | 1,248 | 193 | 171 | 23 | 0 |
FWP estimates from the annual hunter harvest survey; they carry sampling error. "n/e": FWP did not estimate district-level hunter numbers that year (2019, 2021, 2023, 2025). Boundaries of a numbered district can change between years.
Landscape
- Counties
- Chouteau, Pondera, Teton, Liberty counties
- National forests
- —
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- Marias River, Freezout Lake
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- —
- Highest named summits
- Black Buttes (≈4,078 ft), Bosseler Ridge (≈4,016 ft), Telephone Hill (≈3,973 ft), Sam George Hill (≈3,957 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- T L Gap
- Towns and places
- Abbott Lake (historical), Agawam, Ashmoor (historical), Aznoe (historical), Beck (historical), Belgian Colony (historical), Benton Lake (historical), Birch Creek Colony, Black Eagle, Blair Crossing, Bole, Brady, Broadhead (historical), Burton (historical)
Elevations sampled on a regular grid inside the district from AWS Terrain Tiles (Terrarium, zoom 10, ~105 m pixels; compiled from USGS 3DEP and SRTM). Approximate: summits read lower than their surveyed height.
Sources
- District boundary: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks hunting district layer.
- Public land: Montana State Library, Montana Public Lands (published 2026-10-06).
- Harvest: FWP Harvest Estimates, retrieved 2026-10-30.
- Places: USGS Geographic Names Information System. Wilderness and forests: USDA Forest Service.
- Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles (USGS 3DEP, SRTM).
Live weather, snow, fire and access conditions are in the atlas card for this district.