Washington Deer — GMU 101
Sherman
Washington GMU 101 covers 702,840 acres and lies 89 miles north-west of Spokane. 73% of it is public land, mostly national forest (66%) and state trust land (5%). In 2025, hunters took 379 deer here.
Your chance of drawing here
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered a deer license in GMU 101 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Washington deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest 464,327 ac · 66%
- Private 190,906 ac · 27%
- State trust land 32,220 ac · 5%
- BLM 8,293 ac · 1%
- State land 7,012 ac · 1%
- Other public 50 ac · 0%
- County or city land 28 ac · 0%
- National Park Service 1 ac · 0%
Source: WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands' (NDMPL) layer, federal/state/county/city ownership parcels
How the hunting has gone
What Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Washington's figures come from mandatory hunter reports. WDFW credits a multi-GMU special-permit hunt's harvest to every GMU it spans rather than splitting it, so unit totals add up to more than the statewide total.
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 379 |
| 2024 | 624 |
| 2023 | 604 |
| 2022 | 579 |
| 2021 | 732 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 58 · 17% · 405 hunters, 14% success
- Firearm 257 · 76% · 2,026 hunters, 13% success
- Muzzleloader 24 · 7% · 121 hunters, 20% success
Boundary: WDFW Hunt Planner 'UnitSpatial' polygon layer (WP_HuntPlanner/Regulation/MapServer/0)
Harvest: WDFW Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table (WP_HuntPlanner/Harvest/MapServer/1)