Oregon Deer · Unit 66 Malheur River
Oregon Unit 66 spans 1,852,836 acres, centered 34 miles east of Burns. 68% of it is public land, mostly BLM (46%) and national forest (16%). In 2025, 1,327 people hunted deer here and took 490, a 37% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 166, put up 1,232 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw for 165 nonresident first-choice applicants, 61 of whom drew, and the last tag went to someone with 2 points.
No more draws here. The last one was 2025.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife held its 2026 deer draw without Unit 66. Its ground is now drawn as JT-02 — Juntura 02 (58% of this unit), JT-03 — Juntura 03 (42% of this unit). The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
4 licenses · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
46% BLM
1,852,836 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
- 37%
- Season
- Oct 4–15
- Tags / Apps
- 1,232 / 165
- If Drawn
- $623.50
- Success
- 37%
- Season
- Oct 18–26
- Tags / Apps
- 55 / 5
- If Drawn
- $623.50
- Success
- 37%
- Season
- Aug 30 – Sep 28
- Tags / Apps
- 440 / 28
- If Drawn
- $623.50
Every License in Unit 66
The last draw held in Unit 66 was 2025. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 166 | Malheur Rvr Unit | 16% | 2 | |
| 166M | N Malheur Muzzleloader | 13% | 3 ▲1 | |
| 166R | Malheur Rvr Unit Bow | 100% | 0 | |
| 166T · youth | Malheur Rvr Unit Youth | 8% | 2 ▼2 |
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, 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) | 1,327 | 490 | 37% |
| 2024 (summed) | 1,342 | 530 | 39% |
| 2023 (summed) | 1,319 | 431 | 33% |
| 2022 (summed) | 1,164 | 523 | 45% |
| 2021 (summed) | 1,225 | 514 | 42% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 166 malheur rvr unit | 990 | 403 | 41% |
| 166t malheur rvr unit youth | 17 | 14 | 86% |
| 166r malheur rvr unit bow | 268 | 54 | 20% |
| 166m n malheur muzzleloader | 52 | 19 | 37% |
2025 split: rifle 417 (85%) from 1,007 hunters, 41%, archery 54 (11%) from 268 hunters, 20%, muzzleloader 19 (4%) from 52 hunters, 37%
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 weapon 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 Muzzleloader Buck Deer…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Buck Deer Harvest by…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Buck Deer….
The Ground
| BLM | 852,862 ac | 46% |
| Private | 585,664 ac | 32% |
| National Forest | 292,982 ac | 16% |
| State land | 106,510 ac | 6% |
| Tribal | 9,592 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 5,550 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 312 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.
▸ Sources 22
- 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 Muzzleloader Buck Deer… 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 Muzzleloader Buck Deer… 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 2023 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 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 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 Muzzleloader Buck Deer… 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 2021 Estimated Antlerless Buck Deer Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 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 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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