Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 6 Skull Creek
Wyoming Hunt Area 6 covers 262,727 acres and lies 12 miles north of Newcastle and 28 miles south of Sundance. 28% of it is public land, mostly national forest (11%) and state land (11%). In 2025, 560 people hunted mule deer here and took 247, a 44% success rate.
0 licenses · NR capped at 20%
first choice, NR
2025, mule deer
11% Forest Service
262,727 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 6 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 | 560 | 247 | 44% |
| 2024 | 582 | 262 | 45% |
| 2023 | 510 | 211 | 41% |
| 2022 | 521 | 232 | 45% |
| 2021 | 601 | 223 | 37% |
White-tailed Deer
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 374 | 69 | 18% |
| 2024 | 477 | 112 | 24% |
| 2023 | 355 | 70 | 20% |
| 2022 | 360 | 73 | 20% |
| 2021 | 424 | 77 | 18% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mule deer | 560 | 247 | 44% |
| White-tailed deer | 374 | 69 | 18% |
2025 split: archery 4 (2%), firearm 243 (98%) · residents 171 from 423 hunters, nonresidents 76 from 137 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 | 190,131 ac | 72% |
| National Forest | 28,887 ac | 11% |
| State land | 28,219 ac | 11% |
| BLM | 14,788 ac | 6% |
| County or city land | 699 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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