Oregon Elk · Unit 73 Wagontire
Oregon Unit 73 spans 1,992,959 acres, centered 68 miles south-west of Burns. 87% of it is public land, mostly BLM (82%) and state land (3%). In 2025, 185 people hunted elk here and took 16, a 9% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, 273A, put up 28 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw for 1 nonresident first-choice applicant, 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 elk draw without Unit 73. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Oregon elk hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.
1 license · NR capped at 5%
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
82% BLM
1,992,959 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
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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 73
The last draw held in Unit 73 was 2025. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 273A | North Wagontire | 12% | 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): $768 ($180 to apply). Open Dec 1, 2026 – May 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 185 | 16 | 9% |
| 2024 (summed) | 228 | 36 | 16% |
| 2023 (summed) | 241 | 18 | 7% |
| 2022 (summed) | 238 | 24 | 10% |
| 2021 (summed) | 202 | 37 | 18% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Elk | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 273a north wagontire | 23 | 5 | 22% |
| 278a1 high desert no. 1 | 62 | 3 | 5% |
| 278a2 high desert no. 2 | 72 | 7 | 10% |
| 278t high desert youth | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Eastern general bow elk w/ 216r1 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Eastern elk archery | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| 278m high desert muzzleloader | 14 | 1 | 9% |
2025 split: rifle 15 (94%) from 160 hunters, 9%, archery 0 (0%) from 11 hunters, 0%, muzzleloader 1 (6%) from 14 hunters, 7%
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 Elk Harvest by…; ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone; ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest….
The Ground
| BLM | 1,628,435 ac | 82% |
| Private | 268,273 ac | 13% |
| State land | 57,587 ac | 3% |
| Other public | 38,540 ac | 2% |
| National Forest | 357 ac | <1% |
Source: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office 2026 BLM /Washington Land Status Ownership.
▸ Sources 19
- 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 Elk Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2025 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2024 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2023 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2022 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Any Legal Weapon Elk Harvest… harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Archery Elk Harvest by Zone harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- ODFW 2021 Estimated Muzzleloader Elk Harvest by… 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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