Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 157 Boysen
Wyoming Hunt Area 157 covers 425,376 acres and lies 10 miles north of Riverton and 19 miles north-east of Hudson. 30% of it is public land, mostly Bureau of Reclamation (18%) and state land (9%). A further 27% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2025, 624 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 244, a 39% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 157-3, put up 35 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 26 first-choice applicants.
7 licenses
first choice, NR
2025, white-tailed deer
21% Other public
425,376 acres
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.
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Nov 1–30
- Tags / Apps
- 35 / 26
- If Drawn
- $410.50
- Success
- 33%
- Season
- Nov 1–30
- Tags / Apps
- 14 / 0
- If Drawn
- $1,236.50
- Success
- 25%
- Season
- Oct 1 – Nov 30
- Tags / Apps
- 20 / 48
- If Drawn
- $70.50
- Success
- 46%
- Season
- Oct 1–31
- Tags / Apps
- 9,906 / 13
- If Drawn
- $70.50
Every License in Hunt Area 157
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 157-3 Regular | Any white-tailed deer | 100% | 0 ▼1 | |
| 157-3 Special | Any white-tailed deer | 100% | — | |
| 157-3 Landowner | Any white-tailed deer | 100% | — | |
| 157-6 Reduced price | Doe or fawn | 42% | — | |
| 157-6 Landowner reduced price | Doe or fawn | 100% | — | |
| 157-8 Reduced price | Doe or fawn white-tailed deer | 100% | — | |
| 157-8 Landowner reduced price | Doe or fawn white-tailed deer | 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: 157-1.
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 | 624 | 244 | 39% |
| 2024 | 333 | 197 | 59% |
| 2023 | 181 | 132 | 73% |
| 2022 | 514 | 239 | 47% |
| 2021 | 611 | 394 | 65% |
Mule Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 377 | 136 | 36% |
| 2024 | 72 | 32 | 44% |
| 2023 | 44 | 20 | 46% |
| 2022 | 277 | 97 | 35% |
| 2021 | 329 | 190 | 58% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mule deer · 100 licenses | 46 | 10 | 22% |
| Mule deer | 349 | 126 | 36% |
| White-tailed deer · 175 licenses | 132 | 43 | 33% |
| White-tailed deer · 100 licenses | 48 | 12 | 25% |
| White-tailed deer · 410 licenses | 323 | 150 | 46% |
| White-tailed deer | 283 | 39 | 14% |
2025 split: archery 8 (3%), firearm 236 (97%) · residents 214 from 536 hunters, nonresidents 30 from 88 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 | 180,516 ac | 42% |
| Tribal | 116,858 ac | 27% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 75,502 ac | 18% |
| State land | 38,660 ac | 9% |
| Other public | 10,741 ac | 3% |
| County or city land | 3,193 ac | <1% |
| BLM | 8 ac | <1% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.
▸ Sources 14
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest… harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2021 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- WGFD 2026 Deer Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
- 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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