Washington Deer · GMU 407 North Sound

Washington GMU 407 spans 1,133,159 acres, centered 12 miles south of Bellingham. 8% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (3%) and state land (2%). In 2025, hunters took 462 deer here; hunter counts not published.

Tags
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0 licenses

Applicants
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first choice, NR

Hunter Success
30%

2025, firearm hunter

Public Land
8%

6% State

Size
1,771 mi²

1,133,159 acres

Bellingham Marysville Mill Creek Bainbridge Island 407
30%hunter success 2025

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

Licenses

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.

Harvest

Year Deer
2025 462
2024 555
2023 534
2022 482
2021 427
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
General season — 462 —
General season · archery 336 82 24%
General season · firearm 1,002 296 30%
General season · muzzleloader 130 25 19%

2025 split: archery 82 (20%) from 336 hunters, 24%, firearm 296 (73%) from 1,002 hunters, 30%, muzzleloader 25 (6%) from 130 hunters, 19%

What Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Hunter counts not published for 2025. 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. Source: WDFW 2025 Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table.

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 <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 152 ac <1%
National Forest 142 ac <1%
BLM 122 ac <1%
Department of Defense 9 ac <1%

Source: WDFW 2026 WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands'….

▸ Sources 3
  1. WDFW 2025 Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WDFW 2026 Hunt Planner 'UnitSpatial' polygon… boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. WDFW 2026 WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands'… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

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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