Wyoming Deer — Hunt Area 28

Hunter Mesa

Wyoming Hunt Area 28 covers 218,756 acres and lies 14 miles west of Buffalo and 36 miles south of Sheridan. 100% of it is public land, mostly national forest (99%). In 2025, 282 people hunted mule deer here and took 52 — 18% of them killed something.

Mule Deer success (2025):18% Public land:100% Size:218,756 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Wyoming Game and Fish Department has not offered a deer license in Hunt Area 28 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.

The country

Hunt Area 28 within Wyoming

Hunt Area 28 and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

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

Who owns the ground

National Forest 216,617 ac · 99%
Private 861 ac · 0%
State land 858 ac · 0%
Other public 300 ac · 0%
County or city land 98 ac · 0%
BLM 18 ac · 0%

Source: BLM WY Surface Management Agency (land ownership / SMA)

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. 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.