Kansas Deer · Unit 5 Pawnee
Kansas Unit 5 spans 2,171,215 acres, centered 13 miles south-west of Great Bend. 2% of it is public land. In 2021, hunters took 3,087 white-tailed deer here; hunter counts not published. Its most applied-for hunt, NRWT-U5, put up 659 nonresident tags in the 2025 draw for 1,030 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 5. 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.
1 license
first choice, NR
not published
1% Fish & Wildlife Service
2,171,215 acres
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 5
The last draw held in Unit 5 was 2025. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NRWT-U5 | Nonresident Whitetail Either-sex Deer, Unit 5 | 48% | 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-U5, 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 | 3,087 |
| 2020 | 2,912 |
| 2019 | 2,729 |
| 2018 | 3,050 |
| 2017 | 3,109 |
Mule Deer
| Year | Deer |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2017 | 32 |
2021 split: residents 2,178, nonresidents 909
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 | 2,128,884 ac | 98% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 22,286 ac | 1% |
| State land | 19,268 ac | <1% |
| National Park Service | 414 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 360 ac | <1% |
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2026 PAD-US 4.1.
What the Agency Says About the Area
Pawnee; unit 5: that part of Kansas bounded by a line from the state highway K-4 and state highway K-14 junction, then south on state highway K-14 to its junction with Sego Road, then south on Sego Road to its junction with federal highway US-50, then west on federal highway US-50 to its junction with federal highway US-183, then northeast and north on federal highway US-183 to its junction with state highway K-156, then west on state highway K-156 to its junction with federal highway US-283, then north on federal highway US-283 to its junction with state highway K-4, then east on state highway K-4 to its junction with state highway K-14, except federal and state sanctuaries.
Source: KDWP 2026 Kan. Admin. Regs. 115-4-6.
▸ Sources 10
- KDWP 2025 NR Deer Draw Stats draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- KDWP 2025 Deer Regulations Summary fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- KDWP 2021-2022 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- KDWP 2020-2021 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- KDWP 2019-2020 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- KDWP 2018-2019 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- KDWP 2017-2018 Report of Deer Harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- KDWP 2026 Deer Management Units boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2026 PAD-US 4.1 land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- 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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