Oregon Deer 657A — Unit 57

Flora · Sled Springs

What you may take
Flora (antlerless)
Weapon
Rifle
Where
Unit 57 — Sled Springs
22% public of 566,100 acres
Season (2025)
Oct 18–26, 2025
Tags (2025)
55
for 2 first-choice applicants · nonresidents capped at 5%
Hunter success here (2025)
46%
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. 41 tags, 2 first-choice applicants, drew out at 4 points. Source: ODFW 2025 Preference Point Draw... · row 608.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 19% 1 0
1–3 19% same chance at every one of these levels
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 $1,394.93 (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 3 → 3 → 2 → 4 points (2022–2025): +0.0 points/yr (range +0.0 to +2.0). Projecting that pace forward:

Your points nowYears until a sure thing
04 yrs (4–∞)
13 yrs (3–∞)
22 yrs (2–∞)
31 yr (1–∞)
4now

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: Oct 18–26, 2025 p. row 608

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Unit 57, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife counted 1,552 hunters and 709 deer taken in 2025 — 46% of them killed something. Full Unit 57 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 157 Sled Springs Unit 1,083 483 45%
Type 157A Lower Wallowa Valley 58 43 74%
Type 157R Sled Springs Unit Bow 117 26 23%
Type 157M Sled Springs Unit Muzzleloader 186 92 49%
Type 657A Flora 42 26 62%
Type 657B Lower Wallowa Valley 53 30 56%
Type 660A Upper Wallowa Valley 13 9 73%

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 Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest by Zone, Wildlife Management Unit and Hunt ODFW 2025 Estimated Muzzleloader 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 55 2 0.0 4 14 tags ODFW 2025 Preference Point Draw... · row 608
2024 55 1 0.0 2 14 tags ODFW 2024 Preference Point Draw... · row 628
2023 55 3 0.1 3 14 tags ODFW 2023 Preference Point Draw... · row 627
2022 55 5 0.1 3 14 tags ODFW 2022 Preference Point Draw... · row 606

Other licenses valid in Unit 57

Legal cartridges for deer in Oregon

From the Oregon hunting laws rules on file for a rifle. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.

.22-250 Remington
.223 Remington from $0.42/rd
.243 Winchester from $1.11/rd
.25-06 Remington
6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 Grendel
.270 Winchester from $0.16/rd
7mm-08 Remington
7mm Remington Magnum
.30-06 Springfield
.300 AAC Blackout from $0.56/rd
.300 Winchester Magnum from $1.25/rd
.30-30 Winchester
.308 Winchester
.338 Winchester Magnum
.350 Legend from $1.07/rd
.35 Whelen
.360 Buckhammer
.400 Legend
.444 Marlin
.450 Bushmaster from $2.00/rd
.45-70 Government from $1.97/rd
.50 Beowulf
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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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