Wyoming Deer 78-3 — Hunt Area 78, Type 3
Any white-tailed deer · French Creek
- 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.
- Seasons (2026)
- Archery Sep 1–30, 2026 · Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2026
- Nonresident tags (2026)
- 8
- for 4 first-choice applicants
- Mule Deer success here (2025)
- 69%
- of everyone who hunted the area
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Odds by point level — 2026 draw
Undersubscribed: 4 of 8 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. 8 tags, 4 first-choice applicants, drew out at 0 points. Source: 2026 Demand Report · p. 6.
| Points | Your chance | Applicants | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 100% | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 100% | 3 | 3 |
| 2–10 | 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)
At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $410.50 (enough points to draw) .
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 → 1 → 0 → 0 points (2022–2026): +0.0 points/yr (range +0.0 to +1.5). Projecting that pace forward:
| Your points now | Years until a sure thing |
|---|---|
| 0 | now |
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)
How this tag has hunted
Across every license type in Hunt Area 78, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 235 hunters and 161 mule deer taken in 2025 — 69% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 78 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 | 37 | 26 | 70% | 8.8 |
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
Tags left after higher choices ÷ applicants at this choice — 2.0 tags left after higher choices. Points do not help a lower 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 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 | 8 | 4 | 0.5 | 0 | 2 tagsfrom 9 applications | 2026 Demand Report · p. 6 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3 | 0.4 | 0 | 2 tagsfrom 3 applications | 2025 Demand Report · p. 6 |
| 2024 | 7 | 12 | 1.7 | 1 | 2 tagsfrom 10 applications | 2024 Demand Report · p. 7 |
| 2023 | 7 | 9 | 1.3 | 0 | 2 tagsfrom 6 applications | 2023 Demand Report · p. 6 |
| 2022 | 7 | 6 | 0.9 | 0 | 2 tagsfrom 5 applications | 2022 Demand Report · p. 6 |
| 2021 | 4 | 6 | 1.5 | 1 | 1 tagfrom 12 applications | 2021 Demand Report · p. 6 |
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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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