Wyoming Deer 78-8 — Hunt Area 78, Type 8

Doe or fawn white-tailed deer · French Creek

What you may take
Doe or fawn white-tailed deer (antlerless)
Weapon
Any legal weapon
Where
Hunt Area 78 — French Creek
73% public of 292,265 acres
Season (2026)
Sep 1 – Dec 31, 2026
Nonresident tags (2026)
25
for 26 first-choice applicants
Mule Deer success here (2025)
69%
of everyone who hunted the area

Showing nonresident results (Reduced price class). Switch to resident · Reduced price Landowner reduced price

Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 25 tags, 26 first-choice applicants. Source: 2026 Demand Report · p. 2.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 96%

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 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $71.10 (enough points to draw) to $71.10 (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 (2026)

Split 1: Sep 1 – Dec 31, 2026 Doe or fawn white-tailed deer p. 10

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 79 27 34% 9.9

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.

Year by year

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

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2026 25 26 1.0 2026 Demand Report · p. 2
2025 25 39 1.6 2025 Demand Report · p. 2
2024 25 62 2.5 2024 Demand Report · p. 2
2023 20 27 1.4 2023 Demand Report · p. 1
2022 15 42 2.8 2022 Demand Report · p. 2
2021 10 56 5.6 2021 Demand Report · p. 2

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 78

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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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