Hunting districts / Antelope
Antelope hunting district · Region 4 (Great Falls)
District 450
Montana hunting district 450 (Antelope), FWP Region 4 (Great Falls): 595 sq mi in Cascade, Meagher counties; 13% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 4,557 ft; FWP estimated 98 antelope harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Among the most private of 61 antelope districts: 13% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land. MSL Public Lands (calculated)
Publicly administered land
| Montana state trust land | 7.1% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 3.8% | |
| Montana FWP | 2.1% | |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service | 0.1% |
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 | 98 | 58 | 40 | 0 |
| 2024 | 130 | 454 | 72 | 42 | 28 | 2 |
| 2023 | n/e | n/e | 58 | 34 | 22 | 2 |
| 2022 | 83 | 249 | 51 | 28 | 21 | 2 |
| 2021 | n/e | n/e | 49 | 25 | 20 | 4 |
| 2020 | 61 | 140 | 35 | 14 | 21 | 0 |
| 2019 | n/e | n/e | 25 | 13 | 12 | 0 |
| 2018 | 255 | 708 | 143 | 54 | 88 | 2 |
| 2017 | n/e | n/e | 193 | 80 | 107 | 6 |
| 2016 | n/e | n/e | 178 | 87 | 81 | 10 |
| 2015 | 252 | 870 | 175 | 61 | 110 | 4 |
| 2014 | 285 | 739 | 170 | 60 | 101 | 8 |
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
- Cascade, Meagher counties
- National forests
- Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- Beartooth
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- The Pinnacles
- Highest named summits
- Adel Mountain (≈7,070 ft), The Sawteeth (≈6,260 ft), Black Mountain (≈5,869 ft), Harris Mountain (≈5,863 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- None named in GNIS
- Towns and places
- Adel, Castner Falls, Millegan, Saint Clair (historical), Truly
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.