Nevada Deer — Unit 144

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Nevada Unit 144 covers 585,106 acres and lies 63 miles north-west of Ely and 75 miles south of Elko. 88% of it is public land, mostly BLM (88%). In 2025, 6 people hunted mule deer here and took 4 — 67% of them killed something. The 2025 draw put up 23 nonresident tags here for 122 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2025):69 Applicants:253 Hunter success (2025):67% Public land:88% Size:585,106 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Unit 144, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

6 licenses on offer · 69 tags · 253 applicants in the 2025 draw

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 1332-141.142.143.144.145-1005 Mule deer antlered | NR | Any Legal Weapon | 141 - 145 Early 23 tags · 122 applicants · Standard
    <1% Point builder 3% as 2nd choice
  • 1332-141.142.143.144.145-1021 Mule deer antlered | NR | Any Legal Weapon | 141 - 145 Late 2 tags · 45 applicants · Standard
    <1% Point builder <1% as 2nd choice
  • 1342-141.142.143.144.145-0810 Mule deer antlered | NR | Archery | 141 - 145 20 tags · 32 applicants · Standard
    3% Point builder 12% as 2nd choice
  • 1372-141.142.143.144.145-0910 Mule deer antlered | NR | Muzzleloader | 141 - 145 8 tags · 17 applicants · Standard
    <1% Point builder 9% as 2nd choice
  • NRG-141.142.143.144.145-1005 Restricted nonresident guided antlered mule deer | NR guided | Any Legal Weapon | 141 - 145 14 tags · 23 applicants · Guided
    4% Point builder 9% as 2nd choice
  • NRG-141.142.143.144.145-1021 Restricted nonresident guided antlered mule deer | NR guided | Any Legal Weapon | 141 - 145 2 tags · 14 applicants · Guided
    <1% Point builder 1% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
Nevada lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
7 hunts not offered in 2025 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Standard license $168 $168 $408
Guided license $168 $168 $468

Application deadlines: Mar 9, 2027 (expected) for Guided · May 13, 2027 (expected) for the main draw. Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Unit 144

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2025 draw.

The country

Ely Carlin Lovelock Fallon Caliente
Unit 144 within Nevada
065 103 104 106 108 109 111 112 121 131 141 142 143 145 152 153 154 155 156 Ely
Unit 144 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

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

How the hunting has gone

What Nevada Department of Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Nevada Department of Wildlife 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.

Season Hunters Harvest Success
2025 6 4 67%
2024 4 4 100%
2023 10 8 80%
2022 5 5 100%
2021 6 4 67%

Boundary: NDOW Game Management Units

Harvest: 2025 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group

Harvest: 2024 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group

Harvest: 2023 Mule Deer Harvest by Unit Group

How we compute draw odds · All Nevada deer hunts