Oregon Deer · Unit 23 Melrose
Oregon Unit 23 covers 614,134 acres and lies 7 miles north of Roseburg and 36 miles south-west of Cottage Grove. 16% of it is public land, mostly BLM (15%). In 2025, 4,561 people hunted deer here and took 2,237, a 49% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 123A, put up 22 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 34 nonresident first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 1 point.
14 licenses · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
15% BLM
614,134 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 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Nov 14–27
- Tags / Apps
- 132 / 5
- If Drawn
- $703
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Aug 29 – Sep 27
- Tags / Apps
- 55 / 3
- If Drawn
- $703
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Oct 3 – Nov 6
- Tags / Apps
- 1,100 / 7
- If Drawn
- $703
- Success
- 49%
- Season
- Nov 14–20
- Tags / Apps
- 28 / 0
- If Drawn
- $703
Every License in Unit 23
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123A | Umpqua | 8% | 1 ▼1 | |
| 123B | Melrose - N Bank Habitat | <1% (small sample) | 19 ▲5 | |
| 123M1 | Melrose Unit Muzzleloader | 100% | 0 | |
| 123M2 | Melrose - N Bank Habitat Muzzleloader | 2% (small sample) | 17 ▼5 | |
| 123R1 | Umpqua Bow | 100% | 0 | |
| 123R2 | Melrose - N Bank Habitat Bow | 100% | 1 | |
| 623 | Melrose Unit | 15% | 2 | |
| 623A | Central Melrose | 100% | 0 | |
| 623B1 | N Bank Habitat No. 1 | 11% | 2 ▼2 | |
| 623B2 | N Bank Habitat No. 2 | 100% | 2 | |
| 623B3 | N Bank Habitat No. 3 | 11% | 3 ▲1 | |
| 623T1 · youth | N Bank Habitat Area No. 1 Youth | 11% | 2 | |
| 623T2 · youth | N Bank Habitat Area No. 2 Youth | 13% | 2 | |
| 623T3 · youth | Melrose Youth | 100% | 1 |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report; ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $703 ($203 to apply). Open Dec 1, 2026 – May 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 4,561 | 2,237 | 49% |
| 2024 (summed) | 4,706 | 2,241 | 48% |
| 2023 (summed) | 5,031 | 2,315 | 46% |
| 2022 (summed) | 4,818 | 1,946 | 40% |
| 2021 (summed) | 4,838 | 2,035 | 42% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 123a umpqua | 31 | 26 | 83% |
| 123b n bank habitat | 3 | 2 | 67% |
| General any legal weapon western oregon w/ 119a | 56 | 33 | 58% |
| General western deer | 3,306 | 1,765 | 53% |
| 123r1 umpqua bow | 14 | 8 | 58% |
| 123r2 n bank habitat bow | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Early bow deer w/ 123r1 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| Early bow deer w/ 123r2 n bank habitat bow | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Late bow deer w/ 123r1 | 8 | 4 | 43% |
| Late bow deer w/ 123r2 n bank habitat bow | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Early bow deer | 114 | 21 | 19% |
| Late bow deer | 193 | 51 | 26% |
| 123m1 melrose unit muzzleloader | 81 | 19 | 23% |
| 623 melrose unit | 161 | 67 | 42% |
| 623a central melrose | 491 | 187 | 38% |
| 623b1 n bank habitat no. 1 | 15 | 8 | 57% |
| 623b2 n bank habitat no. 2 | 22 | 10 | 47% |
| 623b3 n bank habitat no. 3 | 17 | 5 | 31% |
| 623t1 n bank habitat area no. 1 youth | 19 | 9 | 50% |
| 623t2 n bank habitat area no. 2 youth | 25 | 18 | 73% |
2025 split: rifle 1,826 (94%) from 3,396 hunters, 54%, archery 88 (5%) from 334 hunters, 26%, muzzleloader 19 (1%) from 81 hunters, 23%
What Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. 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…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer….
The Ground
| Private | 517,795 ac | 84% |
| BLM | 94,102 ac | 15% |
| Other public | 1,633 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 513 ac | <1% |
| State land | 207 ac | <1% |
| National Forest | 2 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.
▸ Sources 26
- ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2026 OAR chapter 635 division 060 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2026 Recreational Fee Schedule fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2026 Wildlife Management Unit boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's 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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