BISMARCK – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has conducted its pronghorn lottery, and all of the 1,305 licenses available for the 2025 season were issued, the department said in a news release.

Demand far exceeded supply, and the department received 16,488 applications, including 837 gratis applications, for this year’s pronghorn season. Licenses were available in all traditional units, along with a new unit, 17A, which includes Emmons County and portions of Logan and McIntosh counties west of state Highway 3.

Each unit once again will have a season that is split into an early bow-only portion, and a later gun/bow season.

The bow-only portion of the season opens at noon Aug. 29 and continues through Sept. 21. Anyone who draws a license can hunt pronghorn with a bow in the unit

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