Hunting districts / Antelope
Antelope hunting district · Region 5 (Billings)
District 596
Montana hunting district 596 (Antelope), FWP Region 5 (Billings): 1,473 sq mi in Yellowstone, Musselshell counties; 13% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 3,307 ft; FWP estimated 101 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
| Bureau of Land Management | 7.2% | |
| Montana state trust land | 4.9% | |
| Montana FWP | 0.4% | |
| City & county | 0.2% | |
| Other State of Montana | 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 | 101 | 73 | 28 | 0 |
| 2024 | 295 | 1,369 | 108 | 91 | 17 | 0 |
| 2023 | n/e | n/e | 158 | 103 | 53 | 2 |
| 2022 | 305 | 1,506 | 123 | 105 | 16 | 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
- Yellowstone, Musselshell counties
- National forests
- —
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- Yellowstone
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- Bull Mountains
- Highest named summits
- Dunn Mountain (≈4,741 ft), Johnston Mountain (≈4,619 ft), Three Buttes (≈4,491 ft), Square Butte (≈4,396 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- None named in GNIS
- Towns and places
- Absher (historical), Ballantine, Billings Heights, Bull Mountain, Cline, Delphia, Fattig (historical), Fee, Gibbtown, Hirsch, Huntley, Knox, Lockwood, Mann
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.