Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 19 Pumpkin Buttes

Wyoming Hunt Area 19 covers 972,440 acres and lies 21 miles north-west of Wright and 30 miles south-west of Gillette. 14% of it is public land, mostly BLM (9%) and state land (5%). In 2025, 457 people hunted mule deer here and took 211, a 46% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 19-8, put up 71 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 14 first-choice applicants.

NR Tags, 2026
142

2 licenses

Applicants
14

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
46%

2025, mule deer

Public Land
14%

9% BLM

Size
1,519 mi²

972,440 acres

Wright Gillette Buffalo Pine Haven 19
46%hunter success 2025 · 457 hunters, 211 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 19

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
19-8 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: 19-7.

Draw results: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Reduced price $70.50 ($49 to apply) · Landowner reduced price $36.50 ($15 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 457 211 46%
2024 476 232 49%
2023 529 266 50%
2022 517 216 42%
2021 538 297 55%

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 116 13 11%
2024 123 25 20%
2023 140 24 17%
2022 102 4 4%
2021 115 28 24%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Mule deer 457 211 46%
White-tailed deer · 63 licenses 48 7 15%
White-tailed deer 78 6 8%

2025 split: archery 14 (7%), firearm 197 (93%) · residents 67 from 188 hunters, nonresidents 144 from 269 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 835,815 ac 86%
BLM 88,021 ac 9%
State land 46,840 ac 5%
County or city land 1,570 ac <1%
Other public 192 ac <1%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 10
  1. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  3. WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  4. WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest… harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  6. WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. WGFD 2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. WGFD 2021 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. WGFD 2026 Deer Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. 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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