Washington Deer · GMU 505 Mossyrock

Washington GMU 505 covers 189,663 acres and lies 32 miles north-east of Longview. 4% of it is public land. In 2025, hunters took 394 deer here; hunter counts not published. Its most applied-for hunt, 1309, put up 30 nonresident tags in the 2025 draw for 497 first-choice applicants.

No more draws here. The last one was 2025.

Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife held its 2026 deer draw without GMU 505. No current hunt code lists this unit; the Washington deer hunts on offer are drawn elsewhere. The odds, costs and harvest below are that history, kept for the record.

NR Tags, 2025
60

6 licenses

Applicants
698

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
32%

2025, firearm hunter

Public Land
4%

4% State

Size
296 mi²

189,663 acres

505
32%hunter success 2025

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

Best Bets at 0 Points

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 GMU 505

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it

The last draw held in GMU 505 was 2025. These are that draw's chances for a first-choice nonresident applicant, kept for the record.

1052 3% (small sample) —
1309 6% —
1341 36% —
1538 · youth 29% —
1626 · hunters 10% —
1728 · hunters 16% (small sample) —

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: WDFW 2025 Deer individual hunts, retrieved Aug 31, 2026.

If you draw (2025 nonresident fees): $751.37 ($751.37 to apply). Open Apr 20 – May 27, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Deer
2025 394
2024 409
2023 410
2022 254
2021 290
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
General season — 388 —
General season · archery 171 40 23%
General season · firearm 997 322 32%
General season · muzzleloader 31 7 23%
Special permit — 6 —

2025 split: archery 40 (11%) from 171 hunters, 23%, firearm 322 (87%) from 997 hunters, 32%, muzzleloader 7 (2%) from 31 hunters, 23%

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 182,533 ac 96%
State trust land 5,675 ac 3%
State land 1,365 ac <1%
County or city land 48 ac <1%
BLM 39 ac <1%

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

▸ Sources 5
  1. WDFW 2025 Deer individual hunts draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WDFW 2025 Big Game Hunting Seasons and Rules fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. WDFW 2025 Hunt Planner 'BigGame' harvest table harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. WDFW 2026 Hunt Planner 'UnitSpatial' polygon… boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WDFW 2026 WA DNR 'Non-DNR Major Public Lands'… land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Washington Department of Fish & 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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