Arizona Deer — Unit 38M
Arizona Unit 38M covers 491,119 acres and lies 4 miles north-west of Tucson and 16 miles south of Oro Valley. 32% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (20%) and national park (4%). In 2025, 366 people hunted deer here and took 29 — 8% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Arizona Game & Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Unit 38M in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Arizona deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 330,996 ac · 67%
- State trust land 95,785 ac · 20%
- National Park Service 21,661 ac · 4%
- County or city land 20,432 ac · 4%
- Department of Defense 10,473 ac · 2%
- Bureau of Reclamation 4,177 ac · 1%
- BLM 3,869 ac · 1%
- Tribal 2,305 ac · 0%
- Other public 1,293 ac · 0%
- National Forest 62 ac · 0%
- State land 60 ac · 0%
How the hunting has gone
What Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. Arizona's figures come from AZGFD's post-season hunter questionnaire - survey estimates carrying a 90% confidence interval and a return count, not a census of animals checked in.
All deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 366 | 29 | 8% |
| 2024 | 208 | 26 | 13% |
| 2023 | 193 | 32 | 17% |
| 2022 | 330 | 19 | 6% |
| 2021 | 435 | 94 | 22% |
| 2020 | 377 | 71 | 19% |
| 2019 | 310 | 29 | 9% |
| 2018 | 386 | 49 | 13% |
Mule Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 28 | — |
| 2024 | — | 24 | — |
| 2023 | — | 32 | — |
| 2022 | — | 19 | — |
| 2021 | — | 89 | — |
| 2020 | — | 67 | — |
| 2019 | — | 29 | — |
| 2018 | — | 44 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 1 | — |
| 2024 | — | 2 | — |
| 2021 | — | 5 | — |
| 2020 | — | 4 | — |
| 2018 | — | 5 | — |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 58 · 100% · 366 hunters, 16% success
What the agency says about the area
Unit 38M – Beginning at the junction of I-10 and Tangerine Rd. (Exit 240); southeast on I-10 to Avra Valley Rd. (Exit 242); west on Avra Valley Rd. to Sandario Rd.; south on Sandario Rd. to the San Xavier Indian Reservation boundary; south and east along the reservation boundary to I-19; south on I-19 to Sahuarita Rd. (Exit 75); east on Sahuarita Rd. to AZ Hwy 83; north on AZ Hwy 83 to I-10 (Exit 281); east on I-10…
Boundary: AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units (AZGFD ArcGIS feature service, layer 0)
Harvest: 2025 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2024 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2023 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary