Wyoming Deer 65-3 — Hunt Area 65, Type 3

Any white-tailed deer · South Converse

What you may take
Any white-tailed deer
Weapon
Any legal weapon
Also open Sep 1–30, 2026 as an archery-only season, which needs a $72 archery license on top.
Where
Hunt Area 65 — South Converse
27% public of 782,877 acres
Seasons (2026)
Archery Sep 1–30, 2026 · Oct 15 – Nov 30, 2026
Nonresident tags (2026)
43
for 29 first-choice applicants
White-tailed Deer success here (2025)
48%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Undersubscribed: 29 of 43 tags claimed by first-choice nonresident applicants in 2026. Everyone who applied drew and the rest went to the leftover draw — the 100% reflects low demand, not a great tag. A code like this can flip the year demand catches up.

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 43 tags, 29 first-choice applicants, drew out at 0 points. Source: 2026 Demand Report · p. 5.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 100% 21 21
1 100% 1 1
2 100% 4 4
3 100% 2 2
4 100% 0 0
5 100% 0 0
6 100% 0 0
7 100% 0 0
8 100% 0 0
9 100% 0 0
10 100% 0 0
11 100% 1 1

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 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $410.50 (enough points to draw) .

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 0-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 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 → 0 points (2022–2026): no creep — drew at 0 points each year. Projecting that pace forward:

Your points nowYears until a sure thing
0now

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 (2026)

Special archery: Sep 1–30, 2026 Special archery season (archery license required): Any white-tailed deer; also valid in that portion of Area 66 in Converse County p. 8
Split 1: Oct 15 – Nov 30, 2026 Any white-tailed deer; also valid in that portion of Area 66 in Converse County p. 8

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Hunt Area 65, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 998 hunters and 474 white-tailed deer taken in 2025 — 48% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 65 profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
White-tailed deer 329 176 54% 11.0

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
100%

Tags left after higher choices exceed the applicants at this choice — 14.0 tags left after higher choices. Points do not help a lower choice.

3rd choice
100%

Tags left after higher choices exceed the applicants at this choice — 1.0 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
2026 43 29 0.7 0 14 tagsfrom 14 applications 2026 Demand Report · p. 5
2025 59 33 0.6 0 19 tagsfrom 27 applications 2025 Demand Report · p. 5
2024 53 36 0.7 0 17 tagsfrom 15 applications 2024 Demand Report · p. 6
2023 50 39 0.8 0 16 tagsfrom 16 applications 2023 Demand Report · p. 5
2022 42 38 0.9 0 14 tagsfrom 5 applications 2022 Demand Report · p. 5
2021 57 57 1.0 0 18 tagsfrom 28 applications 2021 Demand Report · p. 5

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 65

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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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