Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 168 Medicine Butte
Wyoming Hunt Area 168 covers 287,069 acres and lies 16 miles north-east of Evanston. 45% of it is public land, mostly BLM (39%) and state land (5%). In 2025, 536 people hunted mule deer here and took 192, a 36% success rate.
0 licenses · NR capped at 20%
first choice, NR
2025, mule deer
40% BLM
287,069 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Licenses
Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 168 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it; the Wyoming deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
Harvest
Mule Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 536 | 192 | 36% |
| 2024 | 374 | 49 | 13% |
| 2023 | 230 | 34 | 15% |
| 2022 | 611 | 204 | 33% |
| 2021 | 527 | 101 | 19% |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | 3 | 10% |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| 2023 | 15 | 0 | 0% |
| 2022 | 17 | 4 | 24% |
| 2021 | 11 | 0 | 0% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mule deer | 536 | 192 | 36% |
| White-tailed deer · 26 licenses | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| White-tailed deer | 31 | 3 | 10% |
2025 split: archery 19 (10%), firearm 173 (90%) · residents 166 from 490 hunters, nonresidents 26 from 46 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 | 157,699 ac | 55% |
| BLM | 113,320 ac | 39% |
| State land | 13,256 ac | 5% |
| County or city land | 2,280 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 265 ac | <1% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.
▸ Sources 7
- 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
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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