Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 24 Sheridan

Wyoming Hunt Area 24 covers 314,121 acres and lies 7 miles south-east of Dayton. 14% of it is public land, mostly state land (10%) and military (1%). In 2025, 1,952 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 1,428, a 73% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 24-3, put up 99 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 80 first-choice applicants.

NR Tags, 2026
6,156

7 licenses

Applicants
142

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
73%

2025, white-tailed deer

Public Land
14%

10% State

Size
491 mi²

314,121 acres

Dayton Sheridan Buffalo Greybull Basin 24
73%hunter success 2025 · 1,952 hunters, 1,428 deer

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

Every License in Hunt Area 24

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
24-3 Regular · private 100% 0
Special · private 100% 0
Landowner · private 100% —
24-7 Reduced price · private 11% (small sample) —
Landowner reduced price · private 100% —
24-8 Reduced price · private 100% —
Landowner reduced price · private 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 1,952 1,428 73%
2024 1,887 1,301 69%
2022 2,325 1,869 80%
2021 3,402 2,871 84%

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 813 252 31%
2024 648 264 41%
2023 675 282 42%
2022 805 367 46%
2021 803 370 46%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Mule deer · 26 licenses 8 7 88%
Mule deer 809 245 30%
White-tailed deer · 500 licenses 359 190 53%
White-tailed deer · 26 licenses 2 2 100%
White-tailed deer · 998 licenses 907 698 77%
White-tailed deer 1,082 538 50%

2025 split: archery 255 (18%), firearm 1,173 (82%) · residents 1,085 from 1,476 hunters, nonresidents 343 from 476 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 271,482 ac 86%
State land 30,326 ac 10%
Department of Defense 3,937 ac 1%
County or city land 3,467 ac 1%
BLM 2,933 ac <1%
Other public 868 ac <1%
National Forest 700 ac <1%
National Wildlife Refuge 693 ac <1%

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

▸ Sources 14
  1. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest… harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  11. WGFD 2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  12. WGFD 2021 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  13. WGFD 2026 Deer Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  14. 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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