Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 125

Fifteen Mile

Wyoming Hunt Area 125 covers 609,771 acres and lies 20 miles west of Worland. 88% of it is public land, mostly BLM (84%) and state land (4%). In 2025, 67 people hunted mule deer here and took 40 — 60% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 12 nonresident tags here for 3 first-choice applicants.

Nonresident tags (2026):22 Applicants:52 Mule Deer success (2025):60% Public land:88% Size:609,771 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Hunt Area 125, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

3 licenses on offer · 22 tags · 52 applicants in the 2026 draw

Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level
  • 125-1 Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 6 tags · 33 applicants · needed 12 pts · Regular
    4% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • 125-1 Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 4 tags · 16 applicants · needed 7 pts · Special
    8% Point builder 0% as 2nd choice
  • 125-1 Antlered mule deer or any white-tailed deer 12 tags · 3 applicants · needed 0 pts · Landowner
    100% Undersubscribed
What these columns mean
Your odds
the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge
plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
As 2nd choice
Wyoming lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
Points needed
the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants
tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
1 hunt not offered in 2026 is hidden — show discontinued hunts.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License Up front Gone if you miss If you draw
Regular license $389 $15 $410.50
Special license $1,215 $15 $1,236.50
Landowner license $15 $15 $36.50

Application window: opens Jan 2, closes Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Other licenses valid in Hunt Area 125

Not in the table above because they had no result in the 2026 draw.

The country

Worland Basin Thermopolis Byron Shoshoni
Hunt Area 125 within Wyoming
113 116 117 118 119 120 124 127 164 165 41 47 51 Worland Basin Greybull Cody
Hunt Area 125 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

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

Who owns the ground

  • BLM 512,104 ac · 84%
  • Private 70,427 ac · 12%
  • State land 26,598 ac · 4%
  • County or city land 641 ac · 0%

Source: BLM WY Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)

How the hunting has gone

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. 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.

Mule Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 67 40 60% 8.8
2024 73 46 63% 8.5
2023 66 39 59% 9.8
2022 67 34 51% 9.3
2021 68 32 47% 13.2

White-tailed Deer

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 42 6 14% 16.0
2024 43 2 5% 55.5
2023 12 4 33% 6.5
2022 34 2 6% 28.0
2021 17 3 18% 9.3

What people carried (2025 harvest)

  • Archery 2 · 4%
  • Firearm 44 · 96%

Residents vs nonresidents (2025)

  • Resident 38 taken · 89 hunters
  • Nonresident 8 taken · 20 hunters

Boundary: Deer Hunt Areas (Wyoming Game and Fish Department)

Harvest: Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer 2025 Harvest Report

Harvest: Deer 2024 Harvest Report

Harvest: Deer 2023 Harvest Report

How we compute draw odds · All Wyoming deer hunts