Oregon Deer 137R — Unit 37

Ochoco Unit Bow · Ochoco

What you may take
Ochoco Unit Bow (antlered)
Weapon
Archery
Archery gear only — no rifle season on this license.
Where
Unit 37 — Ochoco
54% public of 1,028,985 acres
Season (2025)
Aug 30 – Sep 28, 2025
Tags (2025)
409
for 17 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 5%
Hunter success here (2025)
21%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2025 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 248 tags, 17 first-choice applicants, drew out at 1 points. Source: ODFW 2025 Preference Point Draw... · row 287.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 61% 11 0
1 100% 4 4
2 100% 1 1
3 100%
4 100% 1 1
5–10 100% same chance at every one of these levels

Points pass + random pass, from published pools. A dash means Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2025 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$180
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$180
Total if drawn
$623.50
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2025 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $623.50 (enough points to draw) to $740.89 (lowest published odds).

Controlled hunt application (per hunt series) · paid at application $8 source
Nonresident annual hunting license · paid at application $172 source
Nonresident controlled deer tag · paid if drawn $443.50 source

Next application window: opens Dec 1, closes May 15, 2027 (expected) · results ~June 12. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Drew out at 1 → 1 → 1 → 1 points (2022–2025): no creep — drew at 1 points each year. Projecting that pace forward:

Your points nowYears until a sure thing
01 yr
1now

A projection of the last five draws' median creep (capped at 2 points/yr), not a forecast. Random-pass odds still apply every year you're below the cut.

Seasons (2025)

Split 1: Aug 30 – Sep 28, 2025 p. row 287

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Unit 37, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife counted 1,664 hunters and 350 deer taken in 2025 — 21% of them killed something. Full Unit 37 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Type 137 Ochoco Unit 1,473 318 22%
Type 137R Ochoco Unit Bow 191 32 17%

Oregon requires every tag holder to report, but the numbers ODFW publishes are survey estimates expanded from the reporting rate — the agency's own tables are titled "Estimated harvest... based on Mandatory Harvest Survey Reports" — not a count of animals checked in. Source: ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer Harvest by Zone, Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by Zone, Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. Oregon runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2025 409 17 0.0 1 161 tags ODFW 2025 Preference Point Draw... · row 287
2024 454 11 0.0 1 206 tags ODFW 2024 Preference Point Draw... · row 282
2023 650 8 0.0 1 320 tags ODFW 2023 Preference Point Draw... · row 289
2022 642 10 0.0 1 312 tags ODFW 2022 Preference Point Draw... · row 253

Other licenses valid in Unit 37

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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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