Can a hunter draw a general or regional licence for hunt area 19?

No. Every pronghorn hunt area in Wyoming is limited quota and must be drawn for that specific area. There is no general pronghorn licence sold over the counter and no region licence issued by the state. A hunter who does not draw for hunt area 19 has no alternative licence available for pronghorn.

Do Wyoming residents need preference points for a pronghorn draw in hunt area 19?

No. Wyoming residents do not earn or hold pronghorn preference points. The resident draw for hunt area 19 is random, with no points system and no point cutoff. Nonresidents, by contrast, compete in a preference-point draw where three quarters of the licenses go to the highest-pointed applicants and a quarter go to a random draw.

How much of hunt area 19 can a hunter actually access to find pronghorn?

About 64 square miles of BLM and State Trust Land are generally accessible, mostly along county roads and state highways, though many public tracts shown on maps are blocked by private inholdings or are not reached by maintained access. Private land comprises 84 percent of the hunt area and is difficult to access; most ranches are leased to outfitters or closed to new hunters. Public land in the western portion sits in marginal antelope country with low densities and receives heavy hunting pressure.

When do the archery and rifle seasons run in hunt area 19?

Archery runs August 15 through September 30 and regular rifle runs October 1 through October 20. Type 1 allows any antelope on public and private land; Type 7 allows doe or fawn on private land only. Both seasons apply to the same dates and are drawn separately.

Does early-season versus late-season hunting make a difference on this area?

Yes. The first week draws extremely heavy hunter pressure on limited public ground, and hunters will encounter dense competition for animals. Later in the season, as other hunters move on, pressure decreases substantially and a hunter may find more solitude and less-pressured antelope.

Wyoming Hunt Area 19 (Rozet) pronghorn hunting

Licence

Limited quota — drawn

Open public land

15%

Elevation

3,800–4,800 ft

Terrain

Gentle

Hunt area 19 is rolling sagebrush and grassland at the edge of the Black Hills, mostly gentle ground that averages 4.5 degrees of slope. Elevations run 3,800 to 4,800 feet, with much of the hunting at 4,300 feet or so. The country holds a mix of open sagebrush flats and grassland where pronghorn feed, but patches of ponderosa pine and steeper terrain do not. Getting onto ground that holds antelope is the hard part: only about 64 square miles of BLM and State Trust Land is reliably accessible, most of it along county roads and state highways, and much of the public ground shown on maps proves too far from roads or blocked by private inholdings. The large public tract in the western portion sits in marginal antelope habitat and draws high hunter density despite the animals being scarce there. Private land makes up 84 percent of the hunt area, and most of it is leased to outfitters or closed to new hunters even for a trespass fee.

Early-season hunts draw heavy pressure as hunters crowd the limited public ground, but later in the archery window and into the regular season traffic eases. The steep pressure gradient makes timing part of the hunt itself.

Licence and how this hunt area is drawn

Hunt Area 19 (Rozet) is limited quota. A licence for it must be drawn for this hunt area specifically, by resident and nonresident alike. Wyoming issues no general pronghorn licence and no region pronghorn licence, so there is no over-the-counter option and no regional fallback: every pronghorn hunt area in the state is drawn on its own.

Wyoming residents have no preference points for pronghorn — the resident pronghorn draw is random, and no resident point cutoff exists for any hunt area in the state. For nonresidents points matter a great deal: Wyoming awards 75% of each nonresident pool through the preference-point draw, top-down by points, and the remaining 25% at random. Nonresidents also choose between the Regular and Special pools — the same hunts at two price points, competing separately.

Seasons (2026)

Type 1 · Any antelope
Archery August 15 – September 30Regular October 1 – October 20
Type 7 · Doe or fawn valid on private land
Archery August 15 – September 30Regular October 1 – October 20

The wording of each hunt is the Wyoming Game & Fish Department’s and is legally exact — a “cow or calf” hunt is not a pronghorn hunt in general, and a hunt limited to part of the area is not valid across it. Confirm every hunt in the current regulations before applying.

Hunting each season

Type 1 — Any antelope (August–October)

Hunting any antelope here spans eight weeks of the rut—from territory-formation through late rut recovery. The archery window (August 15–September 30) sees temperatures from the mid-80s dropping to the mid-40s, with no significant snow, as bucks set up territories and does move through pre-rut and into the primary rut. Access to public land is limited but available, though the easy-to-reach BLM and State Trust tracts draw heavy pressure. Regular rifle (October 1–20) covers the tail end of the rut and fall grouping as temperatures drop from 60 to near freezing and a trace of snow becomes possible; pressure eases later in this window, and the same public ground is available but less crowded. Hunting any antelope, a hunter may take either sex on both public and private land.

Type 7 — Doe or fawn valid on private land (August–October)

This hunt allows only doe or fawn on private land during the same dates as Type 1—archery August 15–September 30 and regular rifle October 1–20. The timing tracks the rut as closely as the any-antelope hunt does, running through territory formation, the primary rut, rut recovery, and fall grouping. Because the restriction applies to private land only, hunters are limited to private ground where access is extremely difficult to arrange. The archery window spans cooling weeks (mid-80s dropping to mid-40s) with no snow, while regular rifle covers the sharp drop into October (60 to freezing) with minor snowfall possible. For hunters able to gain private-land permission, this season offers an alternative to the public-land pressure.

Land and access

private land84%

Private

BLM9%

Generally open to public hunting

State Trust Land6%

Generally open to public hunting

About 15% of this hunt area is ground a hunter can generally count on — BLM and State Trust Land, roughly 64 square miles. Public ownership is not the same as easy entry: roads, trailheads, seasonal closures and private inholdings all still apply.

State trust land counts toward the open figure above. Wyoming extends hunting on legally accessiblestate trust land to the public unless a parcel is specifically closed — the catch is the access itself, since crossing private ground to reach it still needs the landowner’s permission. Camping, fires and off-road vehicles are not allowed on it.

Where pronghorn are mapped

Yearlong Range98%

the only layer that means year-round use

Winter Range70%

used in winter

Each figure is the share of the hunt area that layer covers. It says where pronghorn are mapped, not where inside the area they are, and not when they move.

Habitat and cover

Across the unit

Sagebrush52%

Grass and meadow40%

Other cover9%

Shares are of each elevation band, not of the whole hunt area — they describe what grows up there, not how much of the area sits at that elevation.

Weather through the season

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Snowfall
January	36°F	13°F	3.6 in
February	38°F	14°F	3.5 in
March	49°F	23°F	2.5 in
April	56°F	30°F	1.7 in
May	66°F	40°F	0 in
June	78°F	49°F	0 in
July	87°F	56°F	0 in
August	86°F	54°F	0 in
September	76°F	44°F	0 in
October	60°F	32°F	0.6 in
November	46°F	22°F	1.9 in
December	36°F	13°F	3.9 in

Snowfall is the monthly total, not depth lying on the ground.

Common questions

Can a hunter draw a general or regional licence for hunt area 19?: No. Every pronghorn hunt area in Wyoming is limited quota and must be drawn for that specific area. There is no general pronghorn licence sold over the counter and no region licence issued by the state. A hunter who does not draw for hunt area 19 has no alternative licence available for pronghorn.
Do Wyoming residents need preference points for a pronghorn draw in hunt area 19?: No. Wyoming residents do not earn or hold pronghorn preference points. The resident draw for hunt area 19 is random, with no points system and no point cutoff. Nonresidents, by contrast, compete in a preference-point draw where three quarters of the licenses go to the highest-pointed applicants and a quarter go to a random draw.
How much of hunt area 19 can a hunter actually access to find pronghorn?: About 64 square miles of BLM and State Trust Land are generally accessible, mostly along county roads and state highways, though many public tracts shown on maps are blocked by private inholdings or are not reached by maintained access. Private land comprises 84 percent of the hunt area and is difficult to access; most ranches are leased to outfitters or closed to new hunters. Public land in the western portion sits in marginal antelope country with low densities and receives heavy hunting pressure.
When do the archery and rifle seasons run in hunt area 19?: Archery runs August 15 through September 30 and regular rifle runs October 1 through October 20. Type 1 allows any antelope on public and private land; Type 7 allows doe or fawn on private land only. Both seasons apply to the same dates and are drawn separately.
Does early-season versus late-season hunting make a difference on this area?: Yes. The first week draws extremely heavy hunter pressure on limited public ground, and hunters will encounter dense competition for animals. Later in the season, as other hunters move on, pressure decreases substantially and a hunter may find more solitude and less-pressured antelope.

Sources

Wyoming Game & Fish — Hunting & Trapping — licence types, general and limited-quota hunts, and season structure
WGFD Hunt Planner — hunt-area boundaries, season dates and the unit descriptions
WGFD — Draw results and odds — how the resident random draw and the nonresident preference-point draw work
WGFD — Regulations — the legal limitations on each hunt, and the statewide licence rules
USGS National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2021) and 3DEP elevation — land cover and terrain by elevation band

Seasons, licence types and boundaries change. Confirm every detail with the Wyoming Game & Fish Department before applying or hunting.

All Wyoming pronghorn hunt areas