Hunting districts / Antelope
Antelope hunting district · Region 4 (Great Falls)
District 471
Montana hunting district 471 (Antelope), FWP Region 4 (Great Falls): 2,972 sq mi in Chouteau, Judith Basin, Fergus, Cascade counties; 17% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 3,455 ft; FWP estimated 430 antelope harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Antelope harvest up sharply of 40 antelope districts: +442% (2013–2015 vs 2023–2025 three-year averages). FWP harvest estimates (calculated)
- Among the highest antelope harvests of 60 antelope districts: 430 antelope harvested in 2025 (FWP estimate). FWP harvest estimates
Publicly administered land
| Montana state trust land | 10.3% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 4.5% | |
| US Forest Service | 2.2% | |
| Montana FWP | 0.3% | |
| Other federal | 0.2% | |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service | 0.1% | |
| City & county | 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 | 430 | 247 | 181 | 2 |
| 2024 | 433 | 1,917 | 273 | 164 | 108 | 0 |
| 2023 | n/e | n/e | 315 | 165 | 143 | 7 |
| 2022 | 658 | 2,361 | 485 | 266 | 214 | 6 |
| 2021 | n/e | n/e | 337 | 137 | 185 | 15 |
| 2020 | 680 | 2,530 | 463 | 216 | 241 | 6 |
| 2019 | n/e | n/e | 243 | 113 | 123 | 7 |
| 2018 | 235 | 564 | 159 | 101 | 57 | 0 |
| 2017 | n/e | n/e | 158 | 108 | 49 | 0 |
| 2016 | n/e | n/e | 153 | 98 | 55 | 0 |
| 2015 | 126 | 502 | 74 | 53 | 19 | 1 |
| 2014 | 93 | 269 | 58 | 42 | 15 | 2 |
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, Judith Basin, Fergus, Cascade counties
- National forests
- Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- Beckman
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- Highwood Mountains
- Highest named summits
- Highwood Baldy (≈7,605 ft), Arrow Peak (≈7,382 ft), Lava Peak (≈7,028 ft), South Peak (≈7,011 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- The Divide, Flat Creek Pass
- Towns and places
- Armington, Armington Junction, Arrow Creek, Belt, Belt Creek, Belton (historical), Benchland, Big Sag, Blythe, Boston Heights (historical), Box Elder (historical), Coffee Creek, Cooper, Danvers
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.