Wyoming Deer 157-1 — Hunt Area 157, Type 1

Any deer · Boysen

What you may take
Any deer
Weapon
Any legal weapon
Also open Sep 1–30, 2024 as an archery-only season, which needs a $72 archery license on top.
Where
Hunt Area 157 — Boysen
30% public of 425,376 acres
Seasons (2024)
Archery Sep 1–30, 2024 · Oct 1–31, 2024
Nonresident tags (2024)
10
for 33 first-choice applicants
White-tailed Deer success here (2025)
39%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2024 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 10 tags, 33 first-choice applicants, drew out at 2 points. Source: 2024 Demand Report · p. 13.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0–1 13% same chance at every one of these levels 20 counted in one band: just under 2 points 0
2 67% 8 5
3 100% 4 4
4 100% 1 1
5–10 100% same chance at every one of these levels

Points pass + random pass, from published pools. A dash means Wyoming Game and Fish Department did not publish a count for that level — it prints exact counts around the cut and folds the rest into a band. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$389
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$15
Total if drawn
$410.50
Refunded if unsuccessful
$374

At the 2024 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $410.50 (enough points to draw) to $510.50 (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 deer license (regular) · paid at application, refundable $374 source
Nonresident deer preference point · only for a point bought without applying — an unsuccessful applicant gets the point free $41 source

Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $41 (Jul 1 – Nov 2, expected) and keeps you moving toward the 2-point cut.

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

Drew out at 2 → 1 → 1 → 2 points (2021–2024): +0.0 points/yr (range +0.0 to +1.0). Projecting that pace forward:

Your points nowYears until a sure thing
02 yrs (2–∞)
11 yr (1–∞)
2now

A projection of the last five draws' median creep (capped at 2 points/yr), not a forecast. Random-pass odds still apply every year you're below the cut.

Seasons (2024)

Special archery: Sep 1–30, 2024 Special archery season (archery license required): Any deer p. 17
Split 1: Oct 1–31, 2024 Any deer p. 17

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Hunt Area 157, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 624 hunters and 244 white-tailed deer taken in 2025 — 39% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 157 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
0%

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

3rd choice
0%

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 regular draw for nonresidents, one row per year. Wyoming runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2024 10 33 3.3 2 3 tagsfrom 35 applications 2024 Demand Report · p. 13
2023 10 21 2.1 1 3 tagsfrom 17 applications 2023 Demand Report · p. 12
2022 29 67 2.3 1 9 tagsfrom 47 applications 2022 Demand Report · p. 12
2021 28 87 3.1 2 9 tagsfrom 65 applications 2021 Demand Report · p. 11

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 157

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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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