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Wyoming Deer Draw Odds

In the 2026 draw Wyoming offered 90 deer hunts to nonresidents, drawn partly by preference points and partly at random. At 0 points a nonresident had at least an even chance in 35 hunts open to every hunter.

Applications Close
227 days
Jun 1

Main draw: closes Jun 1, 2027 (expected)
Leftover / second draw: closes Jun 26, 2027 (expected)

Cost to Apply
$389

$15 kept if you miss, the rest refunded. Deer license $22 only if drawn

Nonresident Tags
9,679

2026 draw

Applicants per Tag
2.0

19,219 nonresident applicants

Expected dates are projected from this year's calendar; the agency sets next year's exact dates.

Point only: $41 nonresident ($75 from 2027) · Jul 1 – Nov 2 · Open now, closes Nov 2 → Buying Points in Wyoming

How the Wyoming Draw Works (30-Second Version)

Hybrid: preference + random.

Say a hunt has 100 nonresident tags. 75 go to the applicants with the most preference points; if the last point level that draws has more applicants than tags left, that level is split at random. The other 25 are drawn at random from everyone who missed the points pass, so an applicant with no points still has a chance.

Who can apply, fees and deadlines in Wyoming

Best Bets at 0 Points

Odds × hunter success × public land, 10 tags or more. Private-land, ranch, landowner and youth hunts left out.

78-3

Hunt area 78 · Either-sex

100%
Success
69%
Public
73%
Season
Oct 1–Dec 31

119-3

Hunt area 119 · Either-sex

90%
Success
79%
Public
62%
Season
Oct 1–Nov 30

47-3

Hunt area 47 · Either-sex

100%
Success
57%
Public
80%
Season
Oct 15–Dec 15

164-3

Hunt area 164 · Either-sex

100%
Success
49%
Public
89%
Season
Oct 1–Dec 15

127-3

Hunt area 127 · Either-sex

100%
Success
50%
Public
79%
Season
Nov 1–Dec 15

60-3

Hunt area 60 · Either-sex

100%
Success
69%
Public
29%
Season
Oct 1–Dec 31

Every Hunt at 0 Points

90 hunt codes drawn in 2026 · 36 at 50% or better · first choice · nonresident regular

Last year's odds were off by about 26 percentage points for applicants near the points needed. How we check

No weapon filter: Wyoming sells one license that is valid with any legal weapon. Hunting the archery season needs a $72 archery license on top.

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
One Line per Hunt Odds at Every Point Level
8-3 Hunt area 8 · Either-sex 100% 0
10-1 Hunt area 10 · Antlered · Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 1% 12▲4
10-3 Hunt area 10 · Either-sex 20% (small sample) 1▲1
11-3 Hunt area 11 · Either-sex 100% 0
15-3 Hunt area 15 · Either-sex 100% 0
22-1 Hunt area 22 · Antlered · Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 8% 6▲4
22-3 Hunt area 22 · Either-sex 89% 0
23-3 Hunt area 23 · Either-sex 100% 0
24-3 Private land · Hunt area 24 · Either-sex · Any white-tailed deer valid on private land 100% 0
34-1 Hunt area 34 · Antlered · Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 2% 14▲3
34-3 Hunt area 34 · Either-sex 100% 0
36-1 Hunt area 36 · Antlered · Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 5% 8▲7
37-1 Hunt area 37 · Antlered · Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 4% (small sample) 11▲7
37-3 Hunt area 37 · Either-sex 100% 0▼2
40-3 Hunt area 40 · Either-sex 5% 2▲2
41-3 Hunt area 41 · Either-sex 100% 0
47-3 Hunt area 47 · Either-sex 100% 0
59-3 Hunt area 59 · Either-sex 100% 0
60-1 Hunt area 60 · Either-sex 5% 5
60-2 Hunt area 60 · Either-sex · Any deer off national forest 92% 0
60-3 Hunt area 60 · Either-sex 100% 0
64-2 Hunt area 64 · Antlered · Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 10% 3▼1
65-3 Hunt area 65 · Either-sex 100% 0
66-3 Hunt area 66 · Either-sex 81% 0
70-3 Hunt area 70 · Either-sex 27% (small sample) 0

Showing 1–25 of 90 · sorted by hunt area · 115 hunts not offered in 2026 hidden — show discontinued hunts

Show all 90 hunts
What These Columns Mean
Odds at your points
—
the share of first-choice applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year. A badge marked * had under five tags, so one applicant either way swings it.
Pts needed
—
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw; the ▲ or ▼ is how far that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold. A 0 marks a hunt that went Undersubscribed: fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Tags / apps
—
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them.
Success
—
the share of hunters in the hunt area who killed an animal, from the latest harvest report on file. It is the whole hunt area's figure, not the hunt's.
Private land, RFW, ranch, youth
—
tags not every hunter can use: private-land-only hunts need landowner access, ranch hunts (Colorado's Ranching for Wildlife, Utah's CWMUs) come with access to one ranch, youth tags have an age limit. They are never best bets and never colour the map.
All 127 Hunt Areas

Each hunt area has its own page: where it is on the map, how much of it is public land, what the hunters who went there killed last season, and every license type you can apply for inside it.

1 Crook 47% success · 21% public 2 Bearlodge 42% success · 23% public 3 Keyhole 44% success · 16% public 4 Sand Creek 37% success · 42% public 5 Inyan Kara 39% success · 14% public 6 Skull Creek 44% success · 28% public 7 South Osage 26% success · 29% public 8 Upton-Four Horse 43% success · 28% public 9 Blacktail Creek 34% success · 22% public 10 Rochelle Hills 56% success · 54% public 11 Mule Creek 43% success · 23% public 12 Hat Creek 46% success · 11% public 13 Lusk 38% success · 17% public 14 Twenty Mile 39% success · 15% public 15 Southeast Wyoming 51% success · 12% public 17 Northwest Gillette 38% success · 21% public 18 Campbell 33% success · 23% public 19 Pumpkin Buttes 46% success · 14% public 21 Thunder Basin 45% success · 18% public 22 Douglas 63% success · 20% public 23 Clearmont 57% success · 16% public 24 Sheridan 73% success · 14% public 25 Tongue-Goose 22% success · 99% public 26 Ucross 43% success · 26% public 27 Buffalo 50% success · 33% public 28 Hunter Mesa 18% success · 100% public 29 Johnson 61% success · 20% public 30 Upper Powder River 37% success · 33% public 31 Salt Creek 36% success · 54% public 32 Beartrap Creek 9% success · 36% public 33 Red Fork 48% success · 42% public 34 North Natrona 77% success · 62% public 35 Upper Nowood 31% success · 41% public 36 Badwater 69% success · 70% public 37 Copper Mountain 52% public 39 Bates Creek 64% success · 65% public 40 Buffalo Creek 54% success · 55% public 41 Lower Nowood 41% success · 72% public 46 Cloud Peak 30% success · 100% public 47 Webber Canyon 57% success · 80% public 50 Upper Shell-Beaver Creek 24% success · 100% public 51 Beaver Creek 67% success · 74% public 52 Crystal Creek 30% success · 80% public 53 Devils Canyon 28% success · 92% public 59 South Laramie Mountains 51% success · 13% public 60 Pole Mountain 69% success · 29% public 61 Harriman 33% success · 23% public 64 Laramie Peak 45% success · 32% public 65 South Converse 48% success · 27% public 66 Bates Hole-Hat Six 38% success · 51% public 67 20% public 70 Shirley Mountain 34% success · 58% public 74 Kyle 41% success · 29% public 75 Four Mile 21% success · 49% public 76 Sheep Mountain 24% success · 66% public 77 Boulder Ridge 15% success · 23% public 78 French Creek 69% success · 73% public 79 Kennaday Peak 56% success · 48% public 80 Spring Creek 67% success · 57% public 81 Blackhall 74% success · 74% public 82 Baggs 32% success · 74% public 84 Atlantic Rim 50% success · 55% public 87 Ferris 94% success · 71% public 88 Kendrick 38% success · 42% public 89 Rattlesnake 79% success · 53% public 90 Muskrat 56% success · 78% public 92 Table Mountain 24% success · 85% public 94 Twin Creek 20% success · 84% public 96 Green Mountain 38% success · 91% public 97 Sweetwater Rocks 25% success · 84% public 98 Chain Lakes 30% success · 71% public 100 South Wamsutter 23% success · 73% public 101 Black Butte 86% success · 66% public 102 Aspen Mountain 89% success · 77% public 105 Beartooth 33% success · 83% public 106 Crandall-Sunlight 41% success · 98% public 109 Bald Ridge 79% success · 58% public 110 Grinnell 37% success · 100% public 111 Elk Fork 43% success · 93% public 112 Ishawooa 43% success · 90% public 113 Boulder 49% success · 50% public 114 Wall Mountain 100% public 115 Thorofare 0% success · 100% public 116 Meeteetse 60% success · 49% public 117 Franc’s Peak 71% success · 99% public 118 Upper Gooseberry Creek 88% success · 63% public 119 Anchor 79% success · 62% public 120 Hamilton Dome 49% success · 15% public 121 Heart Mountain 51% success · 50% public 122 Shoshone River 28% success · 69% public 123 Yellowtail 12% success · 82% public 124 Emblem 28% success · 71% public 125 Fifteen Mile 60% success · 88% public 127 Cottonwood 50% success · 79% public 128 Wind River 40% success · 91% public 130 Big Sandy 20% success · 93% public 131 Steamboat 19% success · 76% public 132 Cedar Mountain 34% success · 67% public 133 Uinta 37% success · 20% public 134 Bear River Divide 22% success · 55% public 135 West Green River 21% success · 75% public 138 Boulder 17% success · 92% public 139 Pinedale 12% success · 86% public 140 New Fork 17% success · 62% public 141 Green River 70% success · 91% public 142 Piney-Horse Creek 23% success · 53% public 143 South Piney 13% success · 79% public 144 Greys River 27% success · 100% public 145 Salt River 35% success · 62% public 146 Fish Creek 24% success 148 Teton 18% success · 99% public 149 Targhee 21% success · 96% public 150 Wilson 12% success · 39% public 151 Fall Creek 27% success · 93% public 152 Lower Hoback 34% success · 92% public 153 Monument Ridge 27% success · 97% public 154 Raspberry Ridge 32% success · 86% public 155 Crystal Peak 25% success · 99% public 156 Spread Creek 32% success · 99% public 157 Boysen 39% success · 30% public 160 Beaver Creek 18% success · 79% public 163 Middle Fork 46% success · 70% public 164 Nowater 49% success · 89% public 165 YU Bench 71% success · 77% public 168 Medicine Butte 36% success · 45% public 169 Tisdale Mountain 58% success · 54% public 171 Crowheart Butte 55% success · 1% public
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About These Numbers

Every percentage here is the chance an applicant with that many points had in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results; quotas, applicant numbers and point levels change every year. A dash means the agency did not publish the number. Under five tags the percentage is flagged: one applicant either way swings it. Check the agency's site and apply there; we don't take applications. How we compute these.