Oregon Deer · Unit 27 Chetco

Oregon Unit 27 spans 1,082,791 acres, centered 32 miles west of Grants Pass. 82% of it is public land, mostly national forest (72%) and BLM (10%). In 2025, 2,161 people hunted deer here and took 1,021, a 47% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 627, put up 44 tags (all residencies) in the 2026 draw for 9 nonresident first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 7 points.

Tags, 2026
116

3 licenses · NR capped at 5%

Applicants
14

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
47%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
82%

72% Forest Service

Size
1,692 mi²

1,082,791 acres

Grants Pass 27
47%hunter success 2025 · 2,161 hunters, 1,021 deer

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.

Every License in Unit 27

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
127M 92% 1 ▼1
627 3% 7 ▼1
627T · youth 40% 2 ▲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) 2,161 1,021 47%
2024 (summed) 2,104 970 46%
2023 (summed) 2,125 863 41%
2022 (summed) 2,109 861 41%
2021 (summed) 2,140 966 45%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
General any legal weapon western oregon w/ 119a 14 10 73%
General western deer 2,057 982 48%
Early bow deer w/ 123r1 0 0 0%
Early bow deer w/ 123r2 n bank habitat bow 0 0 0%
Late bow deer w/ 123r1 0 0 0%
Late bow deer w/ 123r2 n bank habitat bow 0 0 0%
Early bow deer 26 4 17%
Late bow deer 7 2 40%
127m chetco unit muzzleloader 28 5 18%
627 chetco unit 29 18 62%

2025 split: rifle 992 (99%) from 2,071 hunters, 48%, archery 6 (1%) from 33 hunters, 18%, muzzleloader 5 (0%) from 28 hunters, 18%

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 Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by….

The Ground

National Forest 777,085 ac 72%
Private 190,830 ac 18%
BLM 105,581 ac 10%
Other public 4,149 ac <1%
State land 3,898 ac <1%
County or city land 201 ac <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 135 ac <1%

Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.

▸ Sources 26
  1. ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. ODFW 2026 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. ODFW 2026 OAR chapter 635 division 060 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. ODFW 2026 Recreational Fee Schedule fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. ODFW 2025 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. ODFW 2025 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  11. ODFW 2024 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  12. ODFW 2024 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  13. ODFW 2023 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  14. ODFW 2023 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  15. ODFW 2023 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  16. ODFW 2023 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  17. ODFW 2022 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  18. ODFW 2022 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  19. ODFW 2022 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  20. ODFW 2022 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  21. ODFW 2021 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  22. ODFW 2021 Estimated Muzzleloader Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  23. ODFW 2021 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  24. ODFW 2021 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  25. ODFW 2026 Wildlife Management Unit boundaries boundary, area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  26. 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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