Oregon Deer · Unit 47 Northside

Oregon Unit 47 covers 713,864 acres and lies 65 miles west of Baker City. 41% of it is public land, mostly national forest (33%) and BLM (7%). In 2025, 1,055 people hunted deer here and took 297, a 28% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 147, put up 880 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw for 70 nonresident first-choice applicants, 21 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 1 point.

No more draws here. The last one was 2025.

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife held its 2026 deer draw without Unit 47. Its ground is now drawn as FX-02 — Fox 02 (100% of this unit). The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.

Tags, 2025
1,678

3 licenses · NR capped at 5%

Applicants
93

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
28%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
41%

33% Forest Service

Size
1,115 mi²

713,864 acres

47
28%hunter success 2025 · 1,055 hunters, 297 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, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Unit 47

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

The last draw held in Unit 47 was 2025. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.

147 22% 1
147R 100% 0
647B 1% 12 ▼3

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

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) 1,055 297 28%
2024 (summed) 1,118 326 29%
2023 (summed) 1,105 259 23%
2022 (summed) 1,035 205 20%
2021 (summed) 1,046 297 28%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
147 northside unit 658 221 34%
146r2 grant co whitetail bow 15 4 23%
147r northside unit bow 359 55 15%
647b middle fork john day 23 17 75%

2025 split: rifle 221 (79%) from 658 hunters, 34%, archery 59 (21%) from 374 hunters, 16%

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 420,016 ac 59%
National Forest 237,387 ac 33%
BLM 48,300 ac 7%
National Park Service 5,439 ac <1%
State land 3,032 ac <1%

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

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