Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 121 Heart Mountain

Wyoming Hunt Area 121 covers 297,340 acres and lies 11 miles west of Powell and 23 miles west of Byron. 50% of it is public land, mostly BLM (36%) and Bureau of Reclamation (8%). In 2025, 330 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 169, a 51% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 121-3, put up 15 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 5 first-choice applicants.

NR Tags, 2026
190

7 licenses

Applicants
17

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
51%

2025, white-tailed deer

Public Land
50%

36% BLM

Size
465 mi²

297,340 acres

Powell Cody Cowley 121
51%hunter success 2025 · 330 hunters, 169 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 121

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
121-3 Regular 100% 0
Special 100% —
Landowner 100% —
121-7 Reduced price · private 100% —
Landowner reduced price · private 100% —
121-8 Reduced price 100% —
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. Not in the table, with no 2026 result: 121-6.

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 330 169 51%
2024 412 169 41%
2023 300 142 47%
2022 344 196 57%
2021 355 179 50%

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 284 96 34%
2024 330 99 30%
2023 264 116 44%
2022 256 103 40%
2021 345 143 41%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Mule deer · 100 licenses 43 14 33%
Mule deer 267 82 31%
White-tailed deer · 75 licenses 59 30 51%
White-tailed deer · 100 licenses 57 24 42%
White-tailed deer · 99 licenses 71 47 66%
White-tailed deer 234 68 29%

2025 split: archery 0 (0%), firearm 169 (100%) · residents 150 from 306 hunters, nonresidents 19 from 24 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 147,916 ac 50%
BLM 106,061 ac 36%
Bureau of Reclamation 24,460 ac 8%
State land 17,121 ac 6%
County or city land 1,221 ac <1%
Other public 515 ac <1%

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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