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Kansas Deer Draw Odds

In the 2025 draw Kansas offered 22 deer hunts to nonresidents, drawn by preference points. At 0 points a nonresident had at least an even chance in 7 hunts open to every hunter.

Applications Close
195 days
Apr 30

Open Apr 1 – Apr 30, 2027 (expected)

Nonresident Tags
21,824

2025 draw

Applicants per Tag
1.6

34,511 nonresident applicants

2026 draw pending — 2025 odds shown

Point only: $25 nonresident · on the draw application · apply by Apr 30, 2027 (expected) → Buying Points in Kansas

How the Kansas Draw Works (30-Second Version)

Preference points.

Tags go to the applicants with the most preference points, one level at a time. If the last level that draws has more applicants than tags remaining, those applicants are chosen at random. Everyone below that level misses and earns a point.

Who can apply, fees and deadlines in Kansas

Best Bets at 0 Points

Odds × hunter success × public land, 10 tags or more. Private-land, ranch, landowner and youth hunts left out.

NRWT-U13

Unit 13 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 13

79%
Success
—
Public
1%
Season
Dec 2–13

NRWT-U18

Unit 18 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 18

74%
Success
—
Public
4%
Season
Dec 2–13

NRWT-U17

Unit 17 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 17

76%
Success
—
Public
<1%
Season
Dec 2–13

NRWT-U16

Unit 16 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 16

65%
Success
—
Public
<1%
Season
Dec 2–13

NRWT-U15

Unit 15 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 15

62%
Success
—
Public
1%
Season
Dec 2–13

NRWT-U6

Unit 6 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 6

60%
Success
—
Public
<1%
Season
Dec 2–13

Every Hunt at 0 Points

22 hunt codes drawn in 2025 · 7 at 50% or better · first choice · nonresident

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
One Line per Hunt Odds at Every Point Level
NRMD-U1 Unit 1 · Any · NR Mule Deer Stamp, Unit 1 (upgrades a drawn archery/muzzleloader whitetail permit to either-species) — —
NRWT-U1 Unit 1 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 1 20% 0
NRMD-U2 Unit 2 · Any · NR Mule Deer Stamp, Unit 2 (upgrades a drawn archery/muzzleloader whitetail permit to either-species) — —
NRWT-U2 Unit 2 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 2 32% 0
NRWT-U3 Unit 3 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 3 20% 0
NRWT-U4 Unit 4 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 4 32% 0
NRWT-U5 Unit 5 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 5 48% 0
NRWT-U6 Unit 6 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 6 60% 0
NRWT-U7 Unit 7 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 7 37% 0
NRWT-U8 Unit 8 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 8 44% 0
NRWT-U9 Unit 9 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 9 56% 0
NRWT-U10 Unit 10 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 10 46% 0
NRWT-U11 Unit 11 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 11 48% 0
NRWT-U12 Unit 12 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 12 46% 0
NRWT-U13 Unit 13 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 13 79% 0
NRWT-U14 Unit 14 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 14 30% 0
NRWT-U15 Unit 15 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 15 62% 0
NRWT-U16 Unit 16 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 16 65% 0
NRMD-U17 Unit 17 · Any · NR Mule Deer Stamp, Unit 17 (upgrades a drawn archery/muzzleloader whitetail permit to either-species) — —
NRWT-U17 Unit 17 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 17 76% 0
NRMD-U18 Unit 18 · Any · NR Mule Deer Stamp, Unit 18 (upgrades a drawn archery/muzzleloader whitetail permit to either-species) — —
NRWT-U18 Unit 18 · Either-sex white-tailed · Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 18 74% 0

Showing all 22 · sorted by unit · 5 hunts not offered in 2025 hidden — show discontinued hunts

What These Columns Mean
Odds at your points
—
the share of first-choice applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year. A badge marked * had under five tags, so one applicant either way swings it.
Pts needed
—
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw; the ▲ or ▼ is how far that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold. A 0 marks a hunt that went Undersubscribed: fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Tags / apps
—
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them.
Success
—
the share of hunters in the unit who killed an animal, from the latest harvest report on file. It is the whole unit's figure, not the hunt's.
All 18 Units

Each unit has its own page: where it is on the map, how much of it is public land, what the hunters who went there killed last season, and every license type you can apply for inside it.

1 High Plains 0% public 2 Smoky Hill 0% public 3 Kirwin-Webster 0% public 4 Kanopolis 3% public 5 Pawnee 2% public 6 Middle Arkansas 1% public 7 Solomon 2% public 8 Republican 5% public 9 Tuttle Creek 2% public 10 Kaw 4% public 11 Osage Prairie 1% public 12 Chautauqua Hills 0% public 13 Lower Arkansas 1% public 14 Flint Hills 1% public 15 Ninnescah 1% public 16 Red Hills 0% public 17 West Arkansas 0% public 18 Cimarron 4% public
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About These Numbers

Every percentage here is the chance an applicant with that many points had in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results; quotas, applicant numbers and point levels change every year. A dash means the agency did not publish the number. Under five tags the percentage is flagged: one applicant either way swings it. Check the agency's site and apply there; we don't take applications. How we compute these.