Hunting districts / Antelope
Antelope hunting district · Region 7 (Miles City)
District 704
Montana hunting district 704 (Antelope), FWP Region 7 (Miles City): 5,428 sq mi in Custer, Powder River, Big Horn, Rosebud counties; 30% USFS, BLM, state trust and FWP land; median elevation 3,215 ft; FWP estimated 708 antelope harvested in 2025.
What stands out
- Among the highest antelope harvests of 60 antelope districts: 708 antelope harvested in 2025 (FWP estimate). FWP harvest estimates
- Among the largest of 61 antelope districts: 5,428 square miles. FWP district boundary
Publicly administered land
| US Forest Service | 12.6% | |
| Bureau of Land Management | 11.8% | |
| Montana state trust land | 5.8% | |
| Other State of Montana | 0.2% | |
| Montana FWP | 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 | 708 | 538 | 163 | 7 |
| 2024 | 1,015 | 3,779 | 668 | 507 | 159 | 3 |
| 2023 | n/e | n/e | 879 | 618 | 258 | 3 |
| 2022 | 987 | 3,791 | 753 | 528 | 224 | 2 |
| 2021 | n/e | n/e | 687 | 456 | 227 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1,214 | 4,149 | 1,374 | 686 | 639 | 46 |
| 2019 | n/e | n/e | 692 | 579 | 113 | 0 |
| 2018 | 953 | 3,531 | 681 | 570 | 110 | 0 |
| 2017 | n/e | n/e | 635 | 515 | 117 | 3 |
| 2016 | n/e | n/e | 695 | 543 | 150 | 3 |
| 2015 | 558 | 1,674 | 394 | 332 | 62 | 0 |
| 2014 | 439 | 1,650 | 247 | 216 | 27 | 4 |
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
- Custer, Powder River, Big Horn, Rosebud counties
- National forests
- Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Wilderness
- None
- Wildlife management areas
- —
- Mountain ranges (GNIS)
- Blue Mountains, The Pine Hills
- Highest named summits
- Horn Mountain (≈4,734 ft), Eagle Nest Peak (≈4,551 ft), Buffalo Jump (≈4,537 ft), Half Moon Hill (≈4,455 ft)
- Passes and gaps
- Suicide Pass, Camps Pass, Griffin Pass
- Towns and places
- Ashland, Beebe, Birney, Bluffport, Brandenberg, Broadus, Cameron Crossing, Coalwood, Cutler (historical), Decker, Epsie, Gopher (historical), Kirby, Mizpah
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.