Kansas Deer · Unit 4 Kanopolis

Kansas Unit 4 spans 1,682,108 acres, centered 25 miles north of Great Bend. 3% of it is public land. In 2021, hunters took 2,743 white-tailed deer here; hunter counts not published. Its most applied-for hunt, NRWT-U4, put up 454 nonresident tags in the 2025 draw for 820 first-choice applicants.

No more draws here. The last one was 2025.

Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks held its 2026 deer draw without Unit 4. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Kansas deer hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.

NR Tags, 2025
454

1 license

Applicants
820

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
—

not published

Public Land
3%

3% Other public

Size
2,628 mi²

1,682,108 acres

Great Bend Hays Salina McPherson Hutchinson 4

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Best Bets at 0 Points

Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2021. Nonresident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Unit 4

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

The last draw held in Unit 4 was 2025. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.

NRWT-U4 32% 0

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2025 result: NRMD-U4, RESES-EAST.

Draw results: KDWP 2025 NR Deer Draw Stats, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2025 nonresident fees): $477.50 ($0 to apply). Open Apr 1 – Apr 30, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

White-tailed Deer

Year Deer
2021 2,743
2020 2,485
2019 2,779
2018 2,376
2017 2,658

Mule Deer

Year Deer
2021 9
2020 0
2019 26
2018 20
2017 6

2021 split: residents 2,188, nonresidents 555

What Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Hunter counts not published for 2021. Source: KDWP 2021-2022 Report of Deer Harvest; KDWP 2020-2021 Report of Deer Harvest; KDWP 2019-2020 Report of Deer Harvest.

The Ground

Private 1,625,979 ac 97%
Department of Defense 55,239 ac 3%
State land 595 ac <1%
County or city land 293 ac <1%

Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2026 PAD-US 4.1.

What the Agency Says About the Area

Kanopolis; unit 4: that part of Kansas bounded by a line from the interstate highway I-70 and state highway K-147 junction, then east on interstate highway I-70 to its junction with federal highway US-81, then south on federal highway US-81 to its junction with state highway K-4, then west on state highway K-4 to its junction with state highway K-147, then north on state highway K-147 to its junction with interstate highway I-70, except federal and state sanctuaries.

Source: KDWP 2026 Kan. Admin. Regs. 115-4-6.

▸ Sources 10
  1. KDWP 2025 NR Deer Draw Stats draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  2. KDWP 2025 Deer Regulations Summary fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  3. KDWP 2021-2022 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. KDWP 2020-2021 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. KDWP 2019-2020 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. KDWP 2018-2019 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. KDWP 2017-2018 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. KDWP 2026 Deer Management Units boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2026 PAD-US 4.1 land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. KDWP 2026 Kan. Admin. Regs. 115-4-6 area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks' published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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