Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 50 Upper Shell-Beaver Creek
Wyoming Hunt Area 50 covers 85,640 acres and lies 22 miles north-east of Greybull. 100% of it is public land, mostly national forest (100%). In 2025, 238 people hunted mule deer here and took 56, a 24% success rate.
0 licenses · NR capped at 20%
first choice, NR
2025, mule deer
100% Forest Service
85,640 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 50 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 | 238 | 56 | 24% |
| 2024 | 198 | 38 | 19% |
| 2023 | 170 | 81 | 48% |
| 2022 | 179 | 59 | 33% |
| 2021 | 163 | 59 | 36% |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | 0 | 0% |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| 2023 | 18 | 14 | 78% |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 100% |
| 2021 | 11 | 0 | 0% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mule deer | 238 | 56 | 24% |
| White-tailed deer | 24 | 0 | 0% |
2025 split: archery 0 (0%), firearm 56 (100%) · residents 29 from 163 hunters, nonresidents 27 from 75 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
| National Forest | 85,530 ac | 100% |
| BLM | 105 ac | <1% |
| Private | 4 ac | <1% |
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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