Wyoming Deer 97-8 — Hunt Area 97, Type 8
Doe or fawn white-tailed deer · Sweetwater Rocks
- What you may take
- Doe or fawn white-tailed deer (antlerless)
- Weapon
- Any legal weapon
- Also open Sep 1–30, 2023 as an archery-only season, which needs a $72 archery license on top.
- Seasons (2023)
- Archery Sep 1–30, 2023 · Oct 15 – Nov 30, 2023
- Nonresident tags (2023)
- 5
- for 8 first-choice applicants
- Mule Deer success here (2025)
- 25%
- of everyone who hunted the area
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Odds by point level — 2023 draw
Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 5 tags, 8 first-choice applicants. Source: 2023 Demand Report · p. 2.
| Points | Your chance | Applicants | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 63% | — | — |
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)
At the 2023 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $79.50 (enough points to draw) to $79.50 (lowest published odds).
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 (2023)
How this tag has hunted
Across every license type in Hunt Area 97, Wyoming Game and Fish Department counted 153 hunters and 38 mule deer taken in 2025 — 25% of them killed something. Full Hunt Area 97 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 8 | 1.6 | — | 2023 Demand Report · p. 2 |
| 2022 | 7 | 15 | 2.1 | — | 2022 Demand Report · p. 2 |
| 2021 | 24 | 23 | 1.0 | — | 2021 Demand Report · p. 2 |
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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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