Oregon Deer · Unit 44 Columbia Basin
Oregon Unit 44 spans 1,811,862 acres, centered 14 miles south of Hermiston. 5% of it is public land, mostly military (4%) and BLM (1%). In 2025, 1,525 people hunted deer here and took 932, a 61% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 144, put up 1,980 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw for 85 nonresident first-choice applicants, 6 of whom drew.
No more draws here. The last one was 2025.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife held its 2026 deer draw without Unit 44. Its ground is now drawn as HX-01 — Helix 01 (58% of this unit), NB-02 — North Blues 02 (42% of this unit). The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
7 licenses · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
4% Other public
1,811,862 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, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
- Success
- 61%
- Season
- Oct 4–15
- Tags / Apps
- 1,980 / 85
- If Drawn
- $623.50
- Success
- 61%
- Season
- Aug 30 – Sep 28
- Tags / Apps
- 440 / 3
- If Drawn
- $623.50
- Success
- 61%
- Season
- Oct 18–26
- Tags / Apps
- 33 / 6
- If Drawn
- $623.50
Every License in Unit 44
The last draw held in Unit 44 was 2025. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 144 | Columbia Basin Unit | 100% | 0 | |
| 144R | Columbia Plateau Bow | 100% | 0 | |
| 644 | Columbia Basin Unit | 1% | 8 ▲1 | |
| 644A2 | Umatilla NWR No. 2 | 2% | 9 ▲3 | |
| 644A3 | Umatilla NWR No. 3 | 0% (small sample) | 34 ▲8 | |
| 644T1 · youth | Umatilla NWR Youth | 9% | 4 ▲1 | |
| 644T2 · youth | Umatilla Co Private Youth | 36% | 1 |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2025 result: 644A1.
Draw results: ODFW 2025 Preference Point Draw Report; ODFW 2025 Preference Point Draw Report, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.
If you draw (2025 nonresident fees): $623.50 ($180 to apply). Open Dec 1, 2026 – May 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 1,525 | 932 | 61% |
| 2024 (summed) | 1,609 | 811 | 50% |
| 2023 (summed) | 2,477 | 1,035 | 42% |
| 2022 (summed) | 1,909 | 738 | 39% |
| 2021 (summed) | 2,420 | 1,062 | 44% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 144 columbia basin unit | 1,339 | 817 | 61% |
| 144r columbia plateau bow | 51 | 25 | 50% |
| 644 columbia basin unit | 79 | 58 | 73% |
| 644a2 umatilla nwr no. 2 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| 644a3 umatilla nwr no. 3 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| 644t1 umatilla nwr youth | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| 644t2 umatilla co private youth | 27 | 19 | 71% |
| 648t morrow - gilliam co youth | 12 | 10 | 80% |
| 649b w blue mtns | 10 | 2 | 25% |
2025 split: rifle 817 (97%) from 1,339 hunters, 61%, archery 25 (3%) from 51 hunters, 49%
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 Archery Buck Deer Harvest by…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer….
The Ground
| Private | 1,715,270 ac | 95% |
| Department of Defense | 64,243 ac | 4% |
| BLM | 14,692 ac | <1% |
| National Wildlife Refuge | 8,927 ac | <1% |
| State land | 3,758 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 2,600 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 1,650 ac | <1% |
| Tribal | 390 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.
▸ Sources 20
- ODFW 2025 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Preference Point Draw Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2026 Recreational Fee Schedule fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by… 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 2025 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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