Washington Deer — GMU 407
North Sound
Washington GMU 407 covers 1,133,159 acres and lies 12 miles south of Bellingham and 22 miles north-east of Oak Harbor. 8% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (3%) and state land (2%). In 2025, hunters took 462 deer here.
Your chance of drawing here
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has not offered a deer license in GMU 407 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
- Private 1,042,954 ac · 92%
- State trust land 39,524 ac · 3%
- State land 26,266 ac · 2%
- County or city land 23,572 ac · 2%
- Other public 414 ac · 0%
- National Wildlife Refuge 152 ac · 0%
- National Forest 142 ac · 0%
- BLM 122 ac · 0%
- Department of Defense 9 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 | 462 |
| 2024 | 555 |
| 2023 | 534 |
| 2022 | 482 |
| 2021 | 427 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 82 · 20% · 336 hunters, 24% success
- Firearm 296 · 73% · 1,002 hunters, 30% success
- Muzzleloader 25 · 6% · 130 hunters, 19% 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)