Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 171 Crowheart Butte
Wyoming Hunt Area 171 spans 1,527,278 acres, centered 31 miles north-west of Hudson. 1% of it is public land. A further 94% is tribal land rather than public land. In 2025, 291 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 161, a 55% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 171-3, put up 29 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 8 first-choice applicants.
5 licenses
first choice, NR
2025, white-tailed deer
<1% Other public
1,527,278 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
- 36%
- Season
- Oct 1 – Dec 31
- Tags / Apps
- 29 / 8
- If Drawn
- $410.50
- Success
- 36%
- Season
- Oct 1 – Dec 31
- Tags / Apps
- 12 / 1
- If Drawn
- $1,236.50
- Success
- 58%
- Season
- Oct 1 – Dec 31
- Tags / Apps
- 248 / 19
- If Drawn
- $70.50
Every License in Hunt Area 171
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 171-3 Regular | Any white-tailed deer | 100% | 0 | |
| 171-3 Special | Any white-tailed deer | 100% | 0 | |
| 171-3 Landowner | Any white-tailed deer | 100% | — | |
| 171-6 Reduced price | Doe or fawn Please see Important Hunting Information section of the Deer Hunting… | 100% | — | |
| 171-6 Landowner reduced price | Doe or fawn Please see Important Hunting Information section of the Deer Hunting… | 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 | 291 | 161 | 55% |
| 2024 | 354 | 232 | 66% |
| 2023 | 271 | 186 | 69% |
| 2022 | 292 | 247 | 85% |
| 2021 | 332 | 241 | 73% |
Mule Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | 48 | 38% |
| 2024 | 94 | 41 | 44% |
| 2023 | 76 | 24 | 32% |
| 2022 | 161 | 52 | 32% |
| 2021 | 113 | 30 | 27% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mule deer · 233 licenses | 46 | 30 | 65% |
| Mule deer | 83 | 18 | 22% |
| White-tailed deer · 150 licenses | 105 | 38 | 36% |
| White-tailed deer · 233 licenses | 132 | 76 | 58% |
| White-tailed deer | 118 | 47 | 40% |
2025 split: archery 0 (0%), firearm 161 (100%) · residents 144 from 250 hunters, nonresidents 17 from 41 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
| Tribal | 1,439,260 ac | 94% |
| Private | 70,312 ac | 5% |
| Other public | 9,141 ac | <1% |
| State land | 4,396 ac | <1% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 3,666 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 325 ac | <1% |
| National Forest | 261 ac | <1% |
| BLM | 114 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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