Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 3 Keyhole
Wyoming Hunt Area 3 covers 212,216 acres and lies 3 miles north-east of Pine Haven and 12 miles north-east of Moorcroft. 16% of it is public land, mostly state land (12%) and BLM (2%). In 2025, 366 people hunted mule deer here and took 160, a 44% success rate.
0 licenses · NR capped at 20%
first choice, NR
2025, mule deer
12% State
212,216 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 3 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 | 366 | 160 | 44% |
| 2024 | 346 | 141 | 41% |
| 2023 | 248 | 96 | 39% |
| 2022 | 276 | 101 | 37% |
| 2021 | 458 | 153 | 33% |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 390 | 126 | 32% |
| 2024 | 332 | 105 | 32% |
| 2023 | 252 | 76 | 30% |
| 2022 | 337 | 112 | 33% |
| 2021 | 492 | 186 | 38% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mule deer | 366 | 160 | 44% |
| White-tailed deer · 353 licenses | 7 | 7 | 100% |
| White-tailed deer | 385 | 119 | 31% |
2025 split: archery 6 (4%), firearm 154 (96%) · residents 118 from 267 hunters, nonresidents 42 from 99 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 | 172,417 ac | 81% |
| State land | 25,005 ac | 12% |
| BLM | 4,237 ac | 2% |
| Bureau of Reclamation | 2,438 ac | 1% |
| National Forest | 2,090 ac | <1% |
| County or city land | 303 ac | <1% |
| Other public | 109 ac | <1% |
| Private or other non-public land | 5,615 ac | 3% |
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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