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South Dakota Deer — WRD-27B

FALL RIVER COUNTY, areas not included in 27A and 27L

South Dakota WRD-27B covers 850,441 acres and lies 17 miles south of Hot Springs and 42 miles south of Custer. 28% of it is public land, mostly other public land (25%) and state trust land (2%). In 2025, hunters took 145 white-tailed deer here. The 2026 draw put up 16 nonresident tags here for 91 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2026):30 Applicants:105 Public land:28% Size:850,441 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in WRD-27B, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

3 licenses on offer · 30 tags · 105 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • WRD-27B-02 West River Deer: 27B02 - ANY BUCK DEER 16 tags · 91 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • WRD-27B-11 West River Deer: 27B11 - ANY WHITETAIL DEER 8 tags · 14 applicants
    0% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • WRD-27B-13P West River Deer: 27B13P - ANTLERLESS WHITETAIL DEER 6 tags · 0 applicants
    100% No first-choice applicants 100% as 2nd choice
What these columns mean
Your odds
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the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
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plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
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South Dakota lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
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the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
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tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
4 hunts not offered in 2026 are hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Per application $25 $25 $25

Application window: opens May 27, closes Jun 23, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in WRD-27B

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

Type 01 — West River Deer: 27B01 - ANY DEER Standard Type 13 — West River Deer: 27B13 - ANTLERLESS WHITETAIL DEER Standard Type 19 — West River Deer: 27B19 - 2 ANTLERLESS WHITETAIL DEER Standard Type 19P — West River Deer: 27B19P - 2 ANTLERLESS WHITETAIL DEER Standard

The country

Hot Springs Custer Rapid City Deadwood Mission
WRD-27B within South Dakota
CUD-CU1 WRD-27A WRD-27L WRD-65A Hot Springs
WRD-27B and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

  • Private 614,650 ac · 72%
  • Other public 213,860 ac · 25%
  • State trust land 17,346 ac · 2%
  • State land 4,584 ac · 1%

Source: Hunt Unit Deer - Public (HuntUnit_Deer MapServer) — East River, West River, Black Hills, CSP and Refuge Deer layers

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. South Dakota's figures are Game, Fish and Parks post-season survey estimates, expanded from mandatory hunter reporting by the response rate — not a count of animals checked in.

White-tailed Deer

Season Harvest
2025 145
2024 163
2023 146

Mule Deer

Season Harvest
2025 73
2024 103
2023 54

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Firearm 218 · 100%

Boundary: Hunt Unit Deer - Public (HuntUnit_Deer MapServer) — East River, West River, Black Hills, CSP and Refuge Deer layers

Harvest: Deer Harvest (Hunting/Harvest_Maps MapServer, layer 5) — per-unit post-season harvest, 2023-2025

How we compute draw odds · All South Dakota deer hunts