Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 11 Mule Creek

Wyoming Hunt Area 11 covers 499,501 acres and lies 33 miles south-west of Newcastle and 45 miles north of Lusk. 23% of it is public land, mostly BLM (13%) and state land (7%). In 2025, 367 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 157, a 43% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 11-3, put up 79 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 35 first-choice applicants.

NR Tags, 2026
343

5 licenses

Applicants
120

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
43%

2025, white-tailed deer

Public Land
23%

13% BLM

Size
780 mi²

499,501 acres

11
43%hunter success 2025 · 367 hunters, 157 deer

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Best Bets at 0 Points

Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Hunt Area 11

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
11-3 Regular 100% 0
Special 100% —
Landowner 100% —
11-8 Reduced price 89% —
Landowner reduced price 100% —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report and 2 more, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Regular $410.50 ($389 to apply) · Special $1,236.50 ($1,215 to apply) · Reduced price $70.50 ($49 to apply) · Landowner $36.50 ($15 to apply) · Landowner reduced price $36.50 ($15 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 367 157 43%
2024 445 257 58%
2023 345 145 42%
2022 279 198 71%
2021 359 219 61%

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 331 155 47%
2024 256 139 54%
2023 299 108 36%
2022 293 112 38%
2021 253 117 46%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Mule deer 331 155 47%
White-tailed deer · 201 licenses 147 78 53%
White-tailed deer · 200 licenses 112 51 46%
White-tailed deer 181 28 16%

2025 split: archery 0 (0%), firearm 157 (100%) · residents 84 from 213 hunters, nonresidents 73 from 154 hunters

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. 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: WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest…; WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report; WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report.

The Ground

Private 385,622 ac 77%
BLM 66,598 ac 13%
State land 33,784 ac 7%
National Forest 13,486 ac 3%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 14
  1. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest… harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  11. WGFD 2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  12. WGFD 2021 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  13. WGFD 2026 Deer Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  14. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Wyoming Game and Fish Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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