Wyoming Deer 12-7 — Hunt Area 12, Type 7

Doe or fawn valid on private land · Hat Creek

Hunt Area 12 within Wyoming

What you may take: Doe or fawn valid on private land (antlerless)
Weapon: Any legal weapon; Also open Sep 1–30, 2022 as an archery-only season, which needs a $72 archery license on top.
Where: Hunt Area 12 — Hat Creek; 11% public of 341,808 acres
Seasons (2022): Archery Sep 1–30, 2022 · Oct 1 – Nov 30, 2022
Nonresident tags (2022): 20; for 94 first-choice applicants
Mule Deer success here (2025): 46%; of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2022 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 20 tags, 94 first-choice applicants. Source: 2022 Demand Report · p. 1.

Points	Your chance	Applicants	Drawn
0	21%	—	—

Tags ÷ applicants. A dash means Wyoming Game and Fish Department did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply

$49

Out of pocket if unsuccessful

$15

Total if drawn

$70.50

Refunded if unsuccessful

$34

At the 2022 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $126.00 (enough points to draw) to $126.00 (lowest published odds).

Nonresident big game application fee (per species applied for) · paid at application $15 source

Conservation stamp (annual; required with any hunting license) · paid if drawn $21.50 source

Nonresident doe/fawn deer license (reduced price) · paid at application, refundable $34 source

Next application window: opens Jan 2, closes Jun 1, 2027 (expected) · results ~June 18. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

No points in this draw — every applicant has the same chance each year, so there is no cut to creep and nothing to build toward.

Seasons (2022)

Special archery: Sep 1–30, 2022 Special archery season (archery license required): Doe or fawn valid on private land p. 2

Split 1: Oct 1 – Nov 30, 2022 Doe or fawn valid on private land p. 2

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Hunt Area 12, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 121 hunters and 56 mule deer taken in 2025 — 46% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 12 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Wyoming's figures are estimates from a voluntary post-season survey of license holders, extrapolated to every license issued — not a count of animals checked in. Source: Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer 2025 Harvest Report Deer 2024 Harvest Report

As a lower choice

2nd choice

Tags left after higher choices ÷ applicants at this choice — 0.0 tags left after higher choices. Points do not help a lower choice.

Year by year

The reduced price draw for nonresidents, one row per year.

Year	Tags	Applicants	Applicants per tag	Points needed	Source
2022	20	94	4.7	—	2022 Demand Report · p. 1
2021	72	67	0.9	—	2021 Demand Report · p. 1

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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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